[Scgeeks] Re: Opinion wanted on new PC

[AndrewB]

indigo wrote:
> User wrote:
>> XP Pro Software is still available from many "legal" sources. Google
>> for XP Pro Software, there are pages of hits including Amazon for
>> instance.
> 
> But the task of taking a hopefully fully performing Vista platform,
> wiping the disk, and installing XP and praying everything works seems to
> be a lot of work and risk to me (unavailable drivers might kill the
> process entirely). Moving from Win98se to Win2000 wasn't too bad because
> they were similar enough OS's that I didn't run into too many problems
> (plus I had D-LO around to help, and old .social contributor).

Win98 and Win2000 (or any Windows NT derivative) aren't even close to 
being similar in terms of architecture of the kernel, multi-tasking, and 
a host of other details.

The UI's are similar, but that's about it.


Andrew