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  3. October 2001

RE: Bought Windows XP, but it will gather dust...

Dan,

At 10/29/01 01:14 PM -0500, you wrote:
>Everything I've read indicates that if Win98SE is working well for you,
>you have no compelling reason to upgrade to XP.  98SE is where I'll be
>for a long time.  Just to clarify my position, the main problem I have
>with XP is the hardware registration and the "phone home" crap.  I
>happen to fiddle with my hardware quite a bit, and I refuse to accept
>that I have to call anyone to "please let me have my OS back, I added a
>new hard drive, and changed the video card."  That is PURE BS!

  Although I agree w/ the sentiment, as I understand it (on a technical
level), XP will allow up to 6 hardware changes within several months (I
don't recall the exact number.)

  -mark

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