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I've not gotten round to trying it until today, I downloaded the ISO of RC2.

All I can say is:

HOLY SHIT!

Everything does seem to smack of Fisher Price, but from all I've been playing with, it's as stable as HELL (even moreso than 2k) and is great to look at, and very polished.

I'm an avid Linux user as well as a Windows user and I think that with this new OS, MS is finally starting to listen to user feedback. Well done!

Anyone else got experiences with this? Jim, you tried the latest builds?

I mean, this is *unfinished*, and i'm hella impressed. There's still RTM and Final to come yet, and I'm swayed already!

I've started downloading Office XP now. Is this as good or is it nasty bloatware?

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Yeah, I heard that RC2 is a major improvement. IMO all M$ OSes suck like blowing on the back of a spoon - but at least XP sucks less than the others ...
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but doesnt it limit you to only being allowed to change 3 components in your pc before having to dial microsft up and get it renewed?

i mean i guess u could just burn it to cd and then format your HDD but still iono. is that a big problem?

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You're forced to register your product within 60 days with Microsoft. It's free to use until then.

Then again, there's a 50k crack that disables that.

If you can't get it, get a file-sharing program. I recommend www.edonkey2000.com

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There had been rumours goin around that microsoft is considering removien windows product activation from the final release due to all negative comments about it. They do realise that it is already cracked and that the activation will just scare off "average" computer users since everybody describes it as a pain in the ass.
So I really do think that it is in microsoft's best interest to get rid of product activatio.
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i hope so too, although it doesn't really matter to me since i get cd's and licenses of most buisness software for free from psu, including win2k pro and office 2000. they will probably have win xp pro and office xp soon as well. too bad they dont have any linux distribs tho.
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You do know that you can download any Linux distro as an ISO file and then burn that to a CD right? It is exactly what you would find on the CD you buy in the store, just without the pretty CD lable. And I bet you either have a CD burner, or know a friend who does.

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ive got all the RAR files on a CD. but when i un-rared them, and burned the ISO to a disc, it didnt work.
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quote:
Originally posted by CatKnight:
too bad they dont have any linux distribs tho.
http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/
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Post some XP screenshots - I'm out of town and on a connection too slow to dig for them.

But regardless of how it looks or how stable it may be, I'm still going to stick to my GNU/Linux workstation for my software development, irc, etc.

My main PC will remain Windows 2000. I refuse to deal with product activation, and for that matter... I don't want an OS that is as tactical as XP. XP no longer includes java runtime environment (yes, I know you can download it) and there are a slew of other anti-competitive things I've read, so I'm going to make the decision not to support Microsoft on the XP release.

Everyone else should do the same.

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