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Story: Reluctance to upgrade starts to hurt Microsoft

Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 2 February 2004, 3:44 PM)

I use Win98se and purchased WinXP some 18 months ago but have been reluctant to install it due to negative feedback, "XP is like big brother... I had to buy new hardware when I upgraded', was the general comments from friends.
I thought I would give XP a try by running both Win98 and WinXP on different machines, I also installed a firewall just to keep tabs on what the two OS's were up to!
Without going into great detail the result is this.

XP is being placed in the bin, its not that it doesn't work, it's just infuriating to told by MS what it is and is not going to allow me to do on MY PC!

I will continue to use Win98 for the present but with severe restraint on its access to the net and I'm going to take another look at 'Lindows'.