Can you prove to my brother that XP sucks more then W98?

[ims27_8]

trillian does it nicely.

[foobar]

I don't use any messenger, but trillian does a nice job, as i have heard.
But shorty said that if more people use trillian, it saves all its data as if you were one person. So if you know your little brother always calls himself 'wankerman' and laugh at him for it, if he used trillian on your pc, the next time you login your name is 'wankerman' !!

And for msn:
I heard trillian was multiplatform, for linux you can consider ccmsn, but a friend of mine told me there was a better-looking version of msn for linux around ... dunno nemore what its name was ...

[Refalm]

quote:-=f00bar=-: I heard trillian was multiplatform

Uhm no... Trillian is Windows only (and Wine too, so I heard).

[Chooco]

i won't even attempt to prove it because i think it is wrong. Windows 98 is not stable at all, it loses resources and doesn't gain them back as well as being a lot harder to use than Windows XP is. WinXP is a little slow on my slow computer compared to Win98 but it rarely crashes (mostly Internet Explorer screwing up) and it does not have to be restarted all the time. i find that Windows XP is more self configuring than Win98 is, sort of like Linux. when i plugged the cable from my printer into my computer, Windows immediately brought up a dialogue asking if i wanted to configure that device, i said yes and the printer works beautifully now    i don't remember Win98 ever doing that.

[lazygamer]

Ok, I agree that im starting to like XP. Now as a messenger for my brother(he should stop by here sometime), he wants to know one thing.

XP professional VS XP home edition? Surely home edition is lower quality?

[ims27_8]

home edition doesn't have a few of the advanced features of professional. I don't know exactly what these features are, but most home users don't need them (hence the name).

[Chooco]

i think you can install pro on several computers at once, i'm not sure though

there's only a few things i know about XP Pro:
-it comes with that Microsoft DNS thing (pretty useful actually)
-it comes with IIS (you should still use Apache)
-Pro supports dual processors but Home does not

[Zombie9920]

quote:Originally posted by jtpenrod:
It's not all that hard to do, but it is somewhat involved:

Do a clean install of Win XP and Win 98 on two different machines. Now start up both of them. Which one demands to be "activated"?
Take a good look at each one's desktop. Then ask which one looks most like that of a toy computer called "My First PC"?
Connect both to the Internet. Which one constantly nags you to sign up for a "Passport", even though you've already told it "No"?
Connect both to the 'Net via a proxy or hardware firewall. Which one keeps trying to connect to www.microsoft.com, even though you have no intention to browse that domain?
Play a CD or DVD in either's media player. Which one immediately "phones home"?
Swap out some hard, such as an HD or mobo. Reboot. Which one demands to be "activated" once again?

Then ask him: which one SUX the most? It shouldn't be too hard to figure that one out.

1. Use Windows XP Professional Corporate Edition and you won't ever be asked to activate your copy of Windows.

2.Use StylesXP, Windows Blinds or LiteStep to customize your desktop looks. Then voolah...no more toy looking GUI. ;P

3. Open Messenger,  click on tools------>options----->preferences tab------->uncheck "run this program at windows startup". No more Passport nagging. ;P

4. Funny, my system never tries to connect to microsoft.com unless I go there on my own.

5. All modern media players phone home to get media info about what you are playing. Big deal, LoL. You can always download Spybot Search&Destroy at http://beam.to/spybotsd and run it once. It will find WMP related keys that makes it phone home and you can delete the keys. Then the problem is solved.

5.Once again. Use Windows XP Corporate and you will never be bothered with activation.

[ August 21, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

[Master of Reality]

how do you know it doesnt phone home? Do you think it will always tell you when its going on to the internet?

[Zombie9920]

quote:Originally posted by Master of Reality / Bob:
how do you know it doesnt phone home? Do you think it will always tell you when its going on to the internet?

My firewall logs all internet activity. It doesn't phone home(after running the Spybot) on my system, so I'm sure it wouldn't on anyone elses system.

[Mikessites]

READ THIS
That is the shit they put on windows 98, which can be found and removed by using DOS... i'd hate to think what crap XP has on it, and no DOS to help you get rid of it    how do you expect to beat shitty spyware that is built into the OS if you cant find it?