Tim Spalding wrote:
>
> patrick wrote:
>
> > and check this out too :)
> >
> > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5565061.html
>
> Hmmm... After installing Windows XP, the hardware fails... and it's the
> HARDWARE's fault?!?!? What's wrong with this picture?
>
> If I were paranoid, I'd suspect a news-media payoff. As it is, could it just be
> irresponsibly sloppy reporting? You be the judge.
>From what I know about xp, the kernel has been modified from nt, and
nt/2k as well as 95/98/mememe
apps run under emulation. So somewhere in the fourty million lines of
C++ code are errors causing the hardware incompatibility. Incidentally,
that has been the traditional bs excuse of ms to blame the hardware.
They ran that crap on me for one month until I uninstalled 98SE, took it
back for a refund, and installed RH linux 6.1. And yes it was not easy
getting a refund, I had to threaten lawsuit to receive it.
Smitty
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