XP Pro is a great step in the right direction, even if they skipped a few steps along the way.
XP Pro is one of the biggest jokes in the Windows history, according to me.
1. Much about the networking performances are way bad, at least when compared to W2K (slower transfers, higher incompability with other computers using other MS-OS:es).
2. It seems to be one of the most insecure actively used OS:es out there, holes everywhere which does not seem to be updated and corrected in a very rapid fashion.
3. It suffers froms the "CD/DVD-drive dissapeared from my system list and is not possible to get back there in any way"-bug (not one person I know that has experienced this bug, and believe me they are many, has been able to reinstall the drivers and fix the corrupted keys in the registry unless they have had system recovery activated and rolled-back the OS to a time before this bug occured (only to re-experience it in a not to distant future).
4. Unless one is very daring and or have taken part of some article discussing the various programs, one can hardly find all the hidden programs dealing with the OS. Oh, so there is a program called msconfig (which apparently have been there in every Windows since long, besides in w2k?), and we have the sysoc.inf in the hidden drawer INF which has a tag "hide" which disables many Window programs from appearing on the "install/remove window programs"-list? oh, and in the registry, one can actually search for the trashcan and remove the entire key, if the right key and not one of the wrong making windows present a nice error-message when starting it up, simply to finally be able to remove it from the desktop (unless using, like, Powertoys TweakUI or something, which if played around with to much also can make way for the "CD/DVD-drive dissapeared from my system list and is not possible to get back there in any way"-bug). Oh dear.
5. It got themes. You can install StyleXP if you want to. It makes the OS look a bit nicer. But, really, what else that makes it better than w2k has it REALLY got?
6. I mean, it does really have a "My Music" and a "My Pictures" folder. And a "My Documents". One can really not have them, or at least not the "My Documents" drawer. It's not like one would ever put ones documents in another drawer. And, it wasn't like Microsoft also promoted these drawers as one of the new cool functions in XP, no no no. Just like they said it was the easiest OS yet (for all the ones that never configures anything and are afraid that their computer may explode when they touch the mouse, maybe, because when and if ANYTHING goes wrong with the OS... one should be really lucky to find out what it is... since everything is so "simplified" that not even a true technician knows what to do besides what the manual says concerning XP).
Yes. I do know that this is almost like ranting. But, I seriously consider XP being way more flawfilled than w2k. Even though there is an apparent lack of heavy technical facts presented here in my little comment. I simply want to present to you people a feeling of frustration (I actually smashed my keyboard to pieces after having experienced the CD/DVD-bug a couple of days ago. Just like always I had to reinstall XP, and at this very particular time it was not really the best of times to do that. So, I smashed my keyboard. I bought it for like $3, so it was so way worth it).
