Microsoft Bashing

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spihunter wrote:
The difference would be that everyone would comply to open standards instead of "microsoft" standards.

Nice thought... but companies would all try and make their own "new" standard...

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mikeymike wrote:
 audio formats have standardised nicely.

They have? Then why hasn't someone told all the Audio equipment/software manufacturers :-(

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Waccoon wrote:
Everyone should keep in mind the customer base for Windows.  Linux may run more efficiently at a low-level, but there's very few GUI standards.  I find using KDE very painful compared to Win2K.

Of course, I refuse to upgrade to XP since I don't need it, so my mindset is with the more "professional" version of Windows without much garbage attached.  The newfangled, over-automated Start menu in XP Home looks pretty pathetic to me.  A major rule of interface design is not to move things around on people very often, and the XP Start menu pushes around recently used apps a bit too much.  It annoys the hell out of my boss.  :-)

I got hold of WinXP Pro (SP1) which my work were throwing away.

Installed it on my 4 year old Athlon (with a new harddrive), which was running Win2k Pro...

I switched off all the eye candy, put it into Win2K GUI mode, and it runs much faster (faster boot and shut down too), and much more stable than Win2K.

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mikeymike wrote:
If it is more stable, then most likely you didn't have good drivers for 2k.

I wouldn't be surprised, my Mobo was raelly badly supported in the driver department.