[Musket]

You couldn't pay me to go to XP.

Why's that? I just bought a laptop with Windows XP Pro on it. What's the skinny on XP? I recall some controversy when XP came out, but being a Mac person I soon forgot about all of it. Now that I actually have this XP thing in my home I'd like to know more about it. Do you have a link with some details?

tia!

[philetus]

W2k Pro does every thing I need without the setup hassles.
I've heard good and bad about XP. I just don't want it.

You can find a lot of good stuff on XP here:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp

[Cold Heat]

Work with your XP, and make sure you get the updates auto loaded.

As you learn the system you will find some things that it does that you can turn off, if you have privacy concerns. Xp has online fault reporting and on line remote access for MS techies. I turned mine off and never used it.

Get zone alarm if you want to know exactly what it is doing and make zone control the internet. I do and I am quite sure nothing goes on that I do not authorize. I think people who hate Gates are trying to get people to believe that XP is somehow unsafe.

I was one of the first to get it and saw the de-bug process. The OS, (while complicated) is good, and it works. I had some complaints early on, but they have all been addressed via patches. It has worked fine for months now.

[chilepepper]

Here is a great article on the nefariousness of Windows XP.

Anyone who buys into Windows XP is like a lobster laughing in a slowly boiling pot...