[AccessD] OT: WinXP Personal

Take Win2K Professional, strip out 1/2 the functionality, add "pretty"
graphics, move everything around to a different position so it annoys the
hell out of previous windows users and looks different, and call it XP Home.

I run Win2K Pro on my desktops, and Win2K Server on my server.  I bought a
Toshiba laptop with Win98 in Ireland (thanks Mark Breen) and IMMEDIATELY
fdisked and installed Win2K Pro.  This was November 1997.

Where you get this "most stable version yet I cannot guess.  And what, pray
tell, is this "amazing functionality"?  Win2K is ROCK SOLID.  The only time
I reboot is when I download bug fixes that require reboots.

I didn't pay for the "extra features" with Win2K Pro.  M$ stripped a huge
amount of functionality out when they created "Home".  You end up with the
Win98 of the XP line - "sucky software for the ignorant".  If that is what
you want, by all means buy it.

Or just continue using Win2K?

And I did NOT buy XP Home (and never will, thank you), and am not now
complaining that I can't develop web pages on it.  I am simply pointing out
YET ANOTHER piece of missing functionality, in case some misguided person
should be contemplating their navel and trying to decide whether to buy XP
Home.  DON'T DO IT!  JUST SAY NO!  ETC.  ETC.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Haslett,
Andrew
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:06 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: WinXP Personal


CASSINI is the web server included with the matrix.

I don't see why people are bagging XP Home.  Why should it include all the
features of XP Pro.. Thats why its called PRO!!

Its a product designed for the average 'HOME' user of which most would never
need to develop web pages.  You can't base a product line on a majority.

If people want extra features - pay for it!  Its up to users to 'review' a
products features *before* buying it, so I've got no sympathy for people who
have purchased HOME and now complain about not having a web server.

XP is the most stable version yet (barring Win2003) and has amazing
functionality compared to the other 'operating systems' available, yet it
receives much criticism of which *most* is undeserved.

Cheers,
Andrew
** comfortably sitting on the optimistic side of pessimism **  :=)