<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by Cobra:
Bob, you must not be talking about the same version of Windows XP I have. I'm on XP Pro OEM right now and it's great. The activation process is totally painless and all this talk of it flipping out if you change any hardware at all is just plain, utter BS. There are 4 components that it assigns a unique ID from - the hard drive, the CPU, the motherboard & the memory. In a span of 8 months, you can change up to 3 components once, or one component 3 times. More than that, you simply have to call M$ to re-activate it. There is no additional fee, it just involves taking a bit of time to talk to someone with a pulse to verify that you do own a valid license for the software. XP could care less about the CD-ROM, the modem, the video card, etc...it's just those four components that it monitors.

I admit, XP is a bit heavy on the eye candy, but to be honest, I actually see better memory management with the Luna desktop enabled, and it's not anywhere near as visually offensive in the silvers scheme.

It appears to be more backward compatible than 2K pro is, and just about as stable. Just wanted to point out that XP isn't the monster everyone is making it out to be.

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Well the thing is, I change my hardware out all the time at least 5 times a month. Install reinstall etc. So this activation crap is crap


This is one reason why a tech like me would never goto XP. It is fast and Nice (kinda, still has a ugly GUI) but for the activation and serial junkl sorry ill pass, plus win 2000 has only been out for 1 year, comming to one year. I injoy that for a windows OS, when in a Microsoft Platform.

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Stop bustin my chops!
Ill do it!