| Subject | : | Not totally banned! |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 11 Oct, 2002 on 14:44 |
| The college that 'banned Windows' only banned Windows 2000. They were having the students with Win2k purchase WinXP. If they were smart, They would have them purchase OS/2 Warp or eComStation or even Lindows.
OS/2 Warp-ed to the very end. |
| Subject | : | Re:Not totally banned! |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 11 Oct, 2002 on 19:58 |
But, really what is the different betwen Win 2k and XP ? Using more or less the same kernal. XP has more consumer crap and looks really bad. ![]() |
| Subject | : | Re:Not totally banned! |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 11 Oct, 2002 on 21:49 |
| Supposedly more stable but MS has said that about every new version of Win that they release and it isn't. Perhaps if MS would switch from Win to Warp it would have a more stable platform (yeah, like that will ever happen)?
OS/2 Warp-ed to the very end. |
| Subject | : | Re:Not totally banned! |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 12 Oct, 2002 on 00:19 |
| Base OS I find rather stable but the really bad component in the XP is the Explorer v6. I've have two system here at home with XP installed and Explorer crasches to often that I will either downgrade it to v5.5sp1 or re-install Win 2000 again. |
| Subject | : | Re:Not totally banned! |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 13 Oct, 2002 on 20:14 |
| But what is really interesting is today most companies can accept that a system is unstable and crash once every while. Take jump back 10 or 15 years when mainframe really ruled and everything was green screen (3270/5250) using Communication Manager/2 or as the product currently today goes under Personal Communication. Back then if the system was slow or the application frooze for more than 10 seconds people directly was on the phone and screaming on somebody. It just looks like today people want to have all the horse power they can get on their local system and then just ignore stable system and the most important secure. And now, after a bunch of releases, the corporation world starts to figure out that Windows isn't that secure has one has hopped it was. And this is now when Mr Gates is trying to take over the main frames as well with Windows, ie kicking out 390 and installing Intel systems with Windows on.Will this be the starting point of the end for Windows success? |
| Subject | : | Re:Not totally banned! |
| Author | : | Brennor rpufky1@rochester.rr.com |
| Date | : | 14 Oct, 2002 on 14:57 |
It'd be nice if that was the case, but there are *WAY* too many people coming into the workforce that are 'brainwashed' into thinking that Windows is better than sliced bread! Check out the pictures of my baby girl! http://brennor.dyndns.org/Daphne |