Well, after being shown all the good things in XP by the nice guy at the store who would make the same off XP or 98SE (it's an independant store, no sponsorship, they prefer AMD CPUs), I'm convinced it doesn't really suck. It's kinda neat, but has it's problems. You have to turn off the XP spyware, and the compatability modes don't always work. Also, XP runs on a Win2K base, as was stated here already, which means you have to get Win2K drivers for everything. The Windows messenger that comes with WinXP is essentially MSN Messenger. Can't get MSN Messenger for XP, you have to use WinMessenger. The difference between XP and ME is that XP uses a save feature that isn't bloated and useless, and it's based on Win2K instead of Windows 95 (which ME was based on). I think I'll dual-boot with Linux and XP when I get a new computer.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

Al Qaeda is runnning your XP box!

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

Installing trojans, bugs and trapdoors in Microsoft code -- isn't that getting into coals-to-Newcastle territory?

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The saddest part of this story is that should it turn out to be true, nobody will be able to differentiate the bug riddled Al Qaeda-written code from bog stock MicroSoft programming.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Ckeck out this article:

http://www.theinquirer.net/11120114.htm

One of thr first things I did after installing XP was follow those instructions and removed that danged Messenger.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.