RE: Microsoft XP

well screw that!! They can keep XP, I am staying away from it now!! You know, I just built myself a sweet monstosity of a machine at home. I installed Windows 98 because I have it and it was easier than figuring out how to install win2k. Now I am so frustrated with the instability of it that I am almost depressed. Oh what to do.....

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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 5:40 PM
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Has anyone heard of all the troubles that the new version of Microsoft is having getting released ??

One of the ugliest things I see is their new licensing scheme. They make sure you are using it only on a specific machine by having its functionality based on hardware items on your system. This configuration has to be registered either by phone or by internet about a month after it is installed or everything stops working. If you change something big, like a Network Card or cpu chip, your system will not boot because it thinks you have installed it on a different machine.

Anyone have options on the new XP ?

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