Posted on 12/22/2008 10:22:39 AM PST by A_Tradition_Continues
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is extending the deadline for making its supposedly retired Windows XP operating system available to custom PC builders.
Under the plan, system builders will be allowed to take delivery of XP licenses and media through May 30. Previously, Microsoft had announced a Jan. 31 XP cutoff date for system builders, which are typically smaller, build-to-order vendors. The news was first reported Friday by InformationWeek.com sister site ChannelWeb.
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Yep. I'm going to run my current licenses on as many machines in succession as MS will allow. Probably another couple given the time frame. All I need them to do is allow me to activate on fresh hardware when it is necessary. At that point in time, Linux should be quite a sight. I'll use XP until I can't and then go Linux. But that will be a long time from now.
Actually not. ME was the next in the line of Windows-on-DOS from the very beginnings of Windows, the successor to Win9x IOW, and intended for consumers and low end business machines. Win 2K was the successor to NT 4.0 (NT having originally stood for "Not There") which was originally intended to be the heavier duty business OS.
So Win "Classic" --> 95 --> 98/SE --> ME, and
NT --> 2K --> XP/Server flavors --> Vizduh
Not for me, at least not completely. I downloaded Kubuntu the other day after hearing that it's finally there as a competitor to Windows (including device support), and I have mixed reactions. I think the UI is there, or close enough. I had a little harder time figuring out how to do stuff relative to Winderz, but that's cause I already know how in Windows. I think the two UI's are equal quality for someone who's never used either, and good enough for a Windows veteran to figure out.
But....neither of my two PCI WiFi cards are auto-recognized (Airlink 101 AWLH6070 and Linksys WMP54GS), neither mfgr offers native Linux drivers, and I forget how to do the stupid Ndiswrapper thing in order to use the Linux drivers. So overall grade for latest Kubuntu is A-, except that I can't use it because I don't have the time to figure out the stupid driver issue.
In a sense this shouldn't be viewed as a black mark against Linux, since the mfgrs are favoring Windows, but it's still reality, and if Linux wants to get accepted, they unfortunately have to fix stuff that isn't technically their fault.
More upside: Kubuntu found and installed my printer which Windows doesn't automatically. But, the network card is the single most important thing because with that you can get everything else. Imagine trying to Freep or download a driver for your network card with your printer.
I got directed to a ftp site, not a web page.
Again tell me how CP/M can view a web page. (hint: no graphics to speak of)
Hey, there’s text mode browsers! ;-)
Hey me too! What a horrible POS that was. But I have had no problems with XP since I upgraded. The last reload I did was almost 4 years ago when I got a new motherboard. I can count actual crashes since then on one hand.
As far as Vista is concerned, I have three older machines at my house that run XP just fine. With Vista's hardware requirements, two of those would only work marginally and one wouldn't run at all without hardware upgrades. No thanks to that expense in addition to being gouged for Vista itself.
I just remembered how cool it was to go to bulletin boards and read stuff on someone elses computer.
I have XP on my main computer, I purchased a new laptop in August with XP-Pro.. a program I use in XP will not work properly in XP-Pro, I’m debating buying XP-Home, formatting and reinstalling Home on my laptop... I’m thinking that should work????
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Yep, I bought the machine for a small business. WinNT/Win2000 was too expensive and wasn't offered at any of the major computer retailers (Best Buy, Office Depot, Circuit City, etc.). The only way to get WinNT was to purchase it from Microsoft and install it yourself. I was a novice then, and wasn't comfortable making major software changes to a new machine.
I went from Win95, which was finally stable, to Win ME. There was no other option -- it was Win ME or nothing. All things considered, I'd have been better off with nothing.
It seemed to be trouble to me when I installed it on top of a machine that had SP2 and a ton of the security installed hotfixes on top of it.
But on a vanilla machine that I rebuilt, and applied SP2 then SP3 right after - no issues.
I figured the SP and one of the previous hotfixes didn’t play nice.
Most of what SP3 entails is those hotfixes anyway - unless you’re running software that explicitly requires it... best to avoid.
I’m struggling with a computer I just bought. It has Vista and I’m trying to reformat it with XP, but it won’t let me. I had a couple of computer nerds over here last weekend and they couldn’t figure it out either. I’m about ready to buy a new hard drive and start from scratch.
So why lie and say he stole it? Such immaturity is as much stealing a man’s reputation as you falsely claimed Bill stole the OS. Grow up and stop being an angry idiot.
I didn't lie. I simply gave stark expression to the obvious moral equivalent of Gates' actions. Paying $50,000 (or whatever pittance he paid) for something that he knew to be worth much more (he had the contract to prove it), and paying that to somebody who didn't know the worth of what he had (because he wasn't told about the contract), is a form of theft. Not to acknowledge that is willful moral blindness. And, of course, that's why, as Knitebane pointed out, a $1,000,000 settlement was forced upon Gates by the courts...although that doesn't sound like nearly enough to me.
“Win2000, xp and vista are just newer shades of lipstick on NT”
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Yep.
Marie, I studied it for over a year then found a couple of keys to doing it right.
I did it on a Toshiba Laptop and it started the first time on a restart!
Email me on my FR mail and we can correspond from there to start. It has a several steps and the first thing I will need is the Make and Model # of your computer.
FR mail me, ASAP.
I am real curious in your case now. Cool challenge.
I’ve used LInux live CD’s to format the HD of windows computers.
I’m anxiously waiting for PCLinusOS 2009 to be released. I have a Vista machine that’s fine, works fine, but it’s ssslloooowwwwww. It is a quad core with 3 gigs of ram, and takes twice as long to boot as my p42.8 2gig Linux machine. I finally downloaded Suse 11.1 and it properly dual-booted with Vista, but it’s clumsy, too.
PCLinusOS 2009 will take the place of Suse, then I’ll see if I want to retain Vista.
On my Linux machine, I’ve already reinstalled XP inside a Virtual Machine, saved the state of the machine, so when I want to do something with XP, it takes ten seconds to get to it.
Yes, it's an FTP site.
You can download the source code to a web browser and build it on CP/M.
Thus, web browser on CP/M.
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