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  1. July 5th, 2001, 05:18 AM #1
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    Question Windows XP -- anybody preview it?

    There is no XP forum, so I thought the "All NT" forum might be the place to ask an XP question.

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    I know XP is the long-awaited merge between the NT kernel and the 95 kernel... my question is, when a person goes to install all those old 95/98/ME-only programs and drivers, are those programs going to see the kernel as NT 6.0 and refuse to install?

    Also, how long does it usually take vendors to start issuing drivers to support a new OS?
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  2. July 5th, 2001, 07:01 AM #2
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    I have seen a Beta of Xp and played with it - I just hate the Interface!
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  3. July 5th, 2001, 07:06 AM #3
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    I've used the xp and any program that run under nt and most of the win 9x ran. as for drivers ...they have to be win2k drivers to work. That was my experience with it.
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    Deleted... sorry.. I just re-read your question.
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    Moved to Tech-to-Tech.
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    Two things I have in mind:

    1. The interface is different than the older ones. It looks like Linux. I've said it before and I'll keep saying it.

    2. No drivers yet. Lots of peripheral devices just doesn't work because of it.
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    I'm concerned about switching some of my older video capture hardware and lots of other software that all refused Win2K over to XP. I like the idea (obviously) of the alleged greater stability, but the compatibility seems like it might be an issue for awhile.

    And the "max number of installs before calling Bill Gates and begging for another chance" really annoys me. <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0"> Please, as often as I have to reformat & reinstall on these Frankensystems i stitched together? I'll be calling MSFT every week.
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  8. July 6th, 2001, 08:16 AM #8
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    Why do you keep reloading, to bypass that you could just create an image. The interface is new, cleaner in some respects.

    Tested it one my IBM Celery 500 BookPC and K6-2 home made system. I shall be trying it on my dual Xeon sometime next week to see if it really does support SMP.
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