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[hennessy1]

I remember when xp came out years ago but I cant remember all the details. Was it like this when xp came out all this MS OS bashing? People saying this is wrong and that is wrong. There's no support for this and that. Then years down the road people can't turn away from the OS they used to hate?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: hennessy1
I remember when xp came out years ago but I cant remember all the details. Was it like this when xp came out all this MS OS bashing? People saying this is wrong and that is wrong. There's no support for this and that. Then years down the road people can't turn away from the OS they used to hate?

Well, when XP came out those moving from 98 or ME seemed to love it. Those already running Windows 2000 (since it was much closer) seemed to hate it. Now with Vista you just have the folks running XP upgrading and not the equivalent users who had 98/ME (which really was horrible) upgrading to something sooooo obviously better.

 

[ChronoReverse]

People coming from 98SE hated XP too. Complaints about it being slower, fisher-price looking, things in different places, incompatible programs, lack of drivers for older hardware, loss of ISA peripheral support, etc.

 

[VinDSL]

Heh!

I'll take you back even further...

I remember when Win 3.1 came out, and all the MSDOS users hated it - with the memory leaks and everything.

Win9x (Windows 95 - Windows XP) took care of that, but...

Windows Vista/Windows 7 is here to stay! Ppl need to deal with it!

BTW, if you're waiting for Windows 7 to come out...

Windows 7 Milestone 1 actually installs on top of Windows Vista SP1! 😀

SOURCE

Window 7 M 1 Build 6.1.6519.1 comes as an ISO image weighing in at 2.7 GB and is designed to install on top of Windows Vista Service Pack 1. At this point in time Windows 7 M1 is not a standalone installer. The fact that it needs Windows Vista at its infrastructure explains many of the striking similarities between the two operating systems.

How bad can it be?!?!?

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: ChronoReverse
People coming from 98SE hated XP too. Complaints about it being slower, fisher-price looking, things in different places, incompatible programs, lack of drivers for older hardware, loss of ISA peripheral support, etc.

lol yeah I remember the Toyland/Fisher Price/Lego comments. Mostly I remember complaints of size of the OS footprint and how its making people buy more memory.

Deja Vu all over again.