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Sunday, October 28, 2001

XP = Blech -- 10:44 pm CST, Update by The Master

Got a chance to check out Windows XP today. Father-in-law decided to pick up one of those E-Machine jobs, which now comes with XP-Home edition. Lemme say this right up front: I was considering picking up XP-Pro because I need some more stability for Windows development than I'm getting with Win-ME (Stable? A win9x system? Heh-that's pretty funny...)

So, I was willing to give this thing a pretty open minded look-over. All I can say: XP is kinda like the controllers on the new X-Box. Really overblown and cute. No content. Gads, they completely TRASHED the interface, made it all Macintosh cute, and dumbed it down. I hope you can turn some of that crap off, or I'm going to go insane seeing it every time we set up a new machine at work. Took me forever to find the Windows Update junk (buried it in the help system) and the system device listing is even more deeply buried than in 2K (and that took doing). I am completely grossed out. Plus a lot of Win9x software completely torks on XP. They don't include the older MFC dlls, so all that software crashes out, and I found a game (Sorry!, by Hasbro) that does the "no tellie" crash after the intro movie. Whee. Thhpptt.

A.T. Hun comments: I found out this weekend that my Mom got it in her head that they needed XP on their home machine. I laughed because a) it's a K6-233 with 64M RAM and b) the very concept of my parents updating the OS on their machine is almost too funny for words . . . except for the fact that I would get all the "support" calls.

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