Which operating system is the best?

[dew7]

Grundy "about 70% of our customers call with 98 problems. "

I think this shows that 98SE is alive and well.  

I wonder if dual-boot is the future of computing.

[Jeysie]

Grundy: They must make Macs a lot better in Australia, because the Macs my former graphic design bosses had would quite literally break about 10 times a day. My experiences of dealing with those POSes has scared me off Macs forever.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[Louisiana Night]

Past Macs were not based on FreeBSD.

[dew7]

Well Microsoft date of expiration for 98, 98SE and ME is June 30, 2006  

[racx_00]

Grundy "about 70% of our customers call with 98 problems. "

I think this shows that 98SE is alive and well.  

I wonder if dual-boot is the future of computing.

It shows that 98se is alive and well and that Bill Gates is trying to lower its use by date

[Grundy]

Actually! the majority of our users are on XP.  
But the majority of problems happen with the 98 users! LOL!  



So... 90% of problems come from 30% of the users.  

And yeah, Mac OS 8.6-9.2 is considered 'Classic' in our job... where as 10.0 - 10.3 is OSX, good quality, rock-solid!      And it's based on UNIX, not just FreeBSD... you can actually boot into a UNIX command prompt if you're a really techie user on OSX!  

Jeysie, you were probably using the 'Classic' OS if it was having problems all the time.
Try using OSX and you'll be wondering where Microsoft went so wrong.  

Check out the new G5's for example... omfg SEXY AS!  

[Jeysie]

Actually! the majority of our users are on XP.  
But the majority of problems happen with the 98 users! LOL!  

Then Win98 is pretty weird there in Australia. I've never had any tech-support-worthy problems with 98, but XP gave me a lot of headaches.

Jeysie, you were probably using the 'Classic' OS if it was having problems all the time.
Try using OSX and you'll be wondering where Microsoft went so wrong.  

Most of them were classics, but we had one that was OSX, and while it didn't break as often (it still broke) it was still awkward to use. Apple needs to steal the Windows taskbar and Start button. Oh, and learn the crazy concept of having a right mouse button.

Not to mention I've already had experience with a computer I didn't put together myself... no thanks. Next computer I get is a custom-built one.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[Grundy]

I just can't win with you can I Jeysie?  

[Jeysie]

As long as you laud Macs or WinXP, nope.

Linux I will no longer comment on, though.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[racx_00]

In SA no one calls up for support cos we all fix our own computers

We arent the stupid ones with XP (Home)

[Jeysie]

Realized my post didn't come out worded quite the way I meant. Let's try it again:

As long as you laud Macs or WinXP in order to diss Win98, nope.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[Yonkey]

So... 90% of problems come from 30% of the users.  

No wonder you get no calls from Mac users, according to that math, 0% of your customers use it.

Seriously, what percentage of your users have a Mac? Or a G5?  

[Louisiana Night]

Actually! the majority of our users are on XP.  
But the majority of problems happen with the 98 users! LOL!  



So... 90% of problems come from 30% of the users.  

And yeah, Mac OS 8.6-9.2 is considered 'Classic' in our job... where as 10.0 - 10.3 is OSX, good quality, rock-solid!      And it's based on UNIX, not just FreeBSD... you can actually boot into a UNIX command prompt if you're a really techie user on OSX!  

Jeysie, you were probably using the 'Classic' OS if it was having problems all the time.
Try using OSX and you'll be wondering where Microsoft went so wrong.  

Check out the new G5's for example... omfg SEXY AS!  

It's based on Unix also, or just Unix?

[dew7]

Well I do not think that XP has the same ability to run as many games as 98SE.  For one thing, XP uses command.com prompt and does not have true MS-DOS like 98SE has.

[dew7]

So has anyone tried XP SP2 or WMP 10 and what do they think of these additions?

[Louisiana Night]

SP2?

Security Patch 2?

[dew7]

Windows Media Player 10

XP Service Pack 2  

[Louisiana Night]

I have Service Pack2, but I haven't installed it yet.

[Yonkey]

I installed Service Pack 2 on my laptop, and there's not really any difference.  IE now has its own popup-blocker and you can customize what crap gets auto-installed into IE's toolbars too.  There's a firewall, but I still use ZoneAlarm's instead.  

[dew7]

ZoneAlarm does have a nice firewall.