XP Build 2526

For those of you who are not aware, or are curious, Build 2526 is RC2, which was releaed over the weekend by Microsoft.

Yeah, I got it through the Public Preview program but I haven't installed it yet. Prolly gonna be just as lame as RC1 was. :mad:

I'm seriously considering never using XP. I think Microft is just getting out of hand at this point. I've never had a problem with them but the licensing fees are getting out of hand.

As above I got my RC 2 notification, but I'm not even going through the exercise of downloading. I'm not even geeked about the final upcoming release in the fall.

I just finished cutting my CD. I'll install it in the morning...to do more testing of software.

I got it as well but after seeing RC1 I am no hurry to Install it on another system,hell after wiping the drive it was on I had to LOw level the drive because XP marked the drive and Win98 wouldn't go back on........

I tried RC1. The ClearType was great, but the eye candy was a huge resource hog...oh yeah and it screwed up my 2k settings and i had to FFR..

activation wasn't exactly painful (took 15 seconds) but if i must reinstall, that'll be a real pain :eek:

once i get my new computer i'll put RC2 on my lappy to see how it is..

tell us if RC2 is any better :)

I'm running RC1 on a bare minimum machine (PII-300 w/ 128MB RAM) and it seems stable.

I've had RC1 installed since it came out and yes I've had some problems. All of them relating to my USB devices. Everytime I plugged in my Sidewinder or my printer it would eventually BSOD. leave them off and no problem. I installed RC2 and that went away altogether. So far no probs with it.
insofar as the Luna desktop resource hog thing...shut it down, XP gives you a choice as to performance of the desktop. It was a snap.
Re-installation, even repeatedly, on the same machine won't be a problem, at least that's what MS says. I don't particualrly care for WPA, I think the only thing it's going to do is make pirates of people who would have never thought to pirate anything otherwise.
It may be advantageous for the 9x/ME user to upgrade to XP, but for the Win2K users it really doesn't offer great incentives. I would say to Win2K users, just keep using it...you have a great OS.

I ran beta 2 and just got RC1 in the mail and downloaded RC2 just a few days ago...

Looks like I got some installing to do....

And yes, I think microsoft is getting a little too uptight on this anti-piracy thing - its gonna be cracked, so they need to quit pretending it won't be.

Probably what'll happen is the major corps will bicker and complain until MS stops and goes back to the "old way" - register

(by the way, I honestly NEVER register anything of mine...do you?)

just installed it, RC1 was nice RC2 samething no java though :)

But even though its fast and harder to crash very nice OS I would never buy it. Licenseing for this is way to much of a hassle. I thought Windows was to make it ez to run a computer? The EZ OS of Microsoft. Will what if you havnt played with computers or havent worked with them before? How would you feel learning how to use a computer or trying to change a os for the first time. I dont think alot of new even ok users will go here. One thing as a techie, I dont want it cause I do alot of OS changing. Install Uninstall etc.. now if I try that with XP I have to register it every time what a hassle.

Personally if the licensing was like win 2000 Id buy but if they want to play the license game will they just lost one customer. I can always fall back on win2k, win98, win95, win3.1 or **** just run Linux.

And yes, I think microsoft is getting a little too uptight on this anti-piracy thing - its gonna be cracked, so they need to quit pretending it won't be.

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Microsoft did not claim that it would not be distributed Illegaly... there goal was to prevent what they refer as "casual copying". Not the hackers who are always one step ahead of them.

you might want to refer to the following link

<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/basics/xp_activation.asp" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/basics/xp_activation.asp</a>

Take a look at this article:

<a href="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802.html" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802.html</a>

May stop u ever wanting to use XP..

[quote]Originally posted by Mistah FEST:
<strong>Take a look at this article:

<a href="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802.html" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802.html</a></strong><hr></blockquote>

Thats a good article, but one of the problems is that most of it is speculation and not practically possible today.

Hey Sheriff is it October already?