It's going to be amusing to M$ collapse over the next couple of years (you heard it here first!). They have now decided to cease all support for software over three years old. This, in conjunction with their bizarre pricing policy and draconian "activation" regime will ensure that their market share will eventually become as irrelevant as Apple. Many of the major hardware manufacturers are courting various Linux companies. Even IBM install Red Hat Linux by default on many of their server products, and have bought into Red Hat in a big way. The end will come when M$ introduce their own mandatory BIOS with their next generation of Windoze.... I'll be happy to save #500 / $850 by buying a machine with a generic BIOS and a proper operating system! Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Chops Westfield" To: Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 7:48 AM Subject: Re: [EE] Re: Free PCB package > > Having spent a few days on the holidays playing with a friends new PC > > running windows XP, again it is noticeably slower than my win98 > > system, even though it has more ram and a faster processor. > > Well, presumably XP and ME were microsoft's lasp gasp attempt to get > people with 1GHz+ machines to buy new (faster) ones to make up for the > speed loss, thus improving the US economy and making a bunch of people a > bunch of money. It doesn't seem to have worked, though. My 400MHz > machines still seem to be running most applications just fine, not that > I'm what the industry would call a power user ("gee, I guess a windows > PC makes an OK X terminal." :-) > > BillW > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body