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Re: rebase and ME
- From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>
- To: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>, "Gordon R. Keehn" <grkeehn at us dot ibm dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:22:11 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: rebase and ME
--- Michael A Chase <mchase@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:59:00 -0400 "Gordon R. Keehn"
> <grkeehn@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > If Bill Gates is laughing, it's because people actually paid
> money,
> > directly or through an hardware vendor,
Like IBM? IIRC, they were shipping NetVistas [possibly Thinkpads,
too] with WinME. *Tsk* *Tsk* Isn't that like the pot calling the
kettle black?
Seriously, though, I didn't pay a dime for this notebook. I got it
for free for winning an employee contest at the place I work.
> > for an abomination like ME. Now that SP1 is expected
> momentarily, you
> > owe it to yourself, not to Billy G, to
> > upgrade to XP Pro at the earliest opportunity.
As a general rule of thumb, I usually don't upgrade until SP2 comes
out. Windows2000 has its own issues, which I won't elaborate on. As
for XP, I don't know about anyone else, but I find the XP window
manager to be abyssmal. I hate all that damned color and the menus
are all wrong. I don't need any of that crap, as it looks like it
would frankly be fairly resource intensive.
> Or at least to Win 95.
*Sigh*, if only it were possible to go back to Win98SE, which [IMHO]
was the most stable version of Windows to date. Unfortunately,
Compaq has not backported its proprietary drivers [the WinME drivers
don't work on Win98SE].
Cheers,
Nicholas
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