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[Altaire4_2dot0]

OT: WinXP SUX's

In the last 15 years I've spent 60 % percent of my working life supporting various incarnations of Windows. So I have first hand IT experience.

Win 3.1 worked but the Mac OS was superior. Win 95 equaled if not surpassed the Mac Classic OS (Jobs was not at the helm of Apple at the time). Win 98 was a dog. Win 98 Second-edition the maintenace fix. Win Me a dog from the start. Win NT 4 solid but no plug and play functionality. Win2k (NT5) was awesome until Mac OS X 10.2. Win XP is just a merged version of Win2k (NT5) and WinME to support games. Mac OS 10.3 and the forthcoming 10.4 Tiger is vastly superior to anything MSFT can dream up. Microsoft's problem is Legacy support for insecure applications conceived before the World Wide Web. Windows will never be secure until they recognize and re-write the Win OS from scratch.

Any linux or unix flavor operating system running on an intel x86 system would be better than the beta ware of an Operating Systems MSFT sells ... It's bloat-ware designed to waste processing time.

A Windows Domain is typically optimized to authenticate Windows machines. See your domain admin for support. Better networking software exists but as I've heard so often its a Windows World.

So how much experience have you had maintaining Windows systems on a daily basis ?

BR, Altaire4