For those that don't know about Microsoft's latest update..

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Originally Posted by Head Boy

I'm still waiting for someone to tell me the real advantage of XP over 98SE. I like having a DOS basis, and I don't want my ports opened. I can type text so I don't need pictures everywhere, and I don't want to spend time discussing how to rebuild my HDD on the boards. Also I don't want m/s fiddling with my system so that they can sell my stats and push their advertising. And I don't want to have to find 3rd party software for simple tasks like file content searching.

Maybe I'm just an old fool 'cos I don't like Gmail either,

windows xp is a horrible program if it crashes and cant reinstall then you need linux or another xp machine to save your files lack of a good dos console is needed for backing files up on a major crash
there ntfs file system is only good for users that create huge files over 2gig
ntfs is only good for server applications but i dont recommend useing anything windows for server related :-P

however i recommend you check out windows nt 2000 got the same basic interface has windows 98se and is much more stable however dos is stripped out
and your gonna have problems installing it to older computers or running with hardware before year 2000. you can install it to a fat 32 or ntfs partion i choose fat32 it just makes life easier for the just in case it boots up slower then 98 but applications run much faster and you can actually leave your computer on for more then 25 days without a freeze or a crash. windows 2000 is the best operating system i have seen yet come out of the bowls of microsoft.

did i mention xp SUCKS!