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  • D David Wulff

    What decline in sales are you referring to?

    Jeremy Falcon wrote:

    MS not pushing out anything really new and unique in over a decade

    Windows XP was a vast improvement for home users, and pretty significant for business users too, with more stability, more security and more support. If you think security is bad now then try supporting some average users on Windows 2000 and 98/Me machines. XP SP2 brought even more, and that was a free-of-cost upgrade.


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    David Wulff wrote:

    What decline in sales are you referring to?

    Well, the one in mind is Win2K. It still never sold as much as MS had expected last I read.

    David Wulff wrote:

    Windows XP was a vast improvement for home users

    It may be a bit more secure, but it's not secure by any means. Besides, I said new and unique, and nothing of the sorts has been put out by MS since Windows 95, everything else is only something power users/programmers/geeks care about.

    Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]

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      David Wulff wrote:

      What decline in sales are you referring to?

      Well, the one in mind is Win2K. It still never sold as much as MS had expected last I read.

      David Wulff wrote:

      Windows XP was a vast improvement for home users

      It may be a bit more secure, but it's not secure by any means. Besides, I said new and unique, and nothing of the sorts has been put out by MS since Windows 95, everything else is only something power users/programmers/geeks care about.

      Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]

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      David Wulff
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      Jeremy Falcon wrote:

      everything else is only something power users/programmers/geeks care about

      :laugh: :laugh: :omg:


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        David Wulff wrote:

        What decline in sales are you referring to?

        Well, the one in mind is Win2K. It still never sold as much as MS had expected last I read.

        David Wulff wrote:

        Windows XP was a vast improvement for home users

        It may be a bit more secure, but it's not secure by any means. Besides, I said new and unique, and nothing of the sorts has been put out by MS since Windows 95, everything else is only something power users/programmers/geeks care about.

        Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]

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        Dan Neely
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        2k was significantly less able to run legacy 9x apps/games that were more common in the home market. XP was the first version where they (sort of) merged the consumer/corperate lines. For the home user XP was much better than ME. X|

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        • P peterchen

          _The software will from time to time validate the software, update or require download of the validation feature of the software. Validation verifies that the software has been activated and is properly licensed. Validation also permits you to use certain features of the software or to obtain additional benefits. For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=39157._ Does that mean mandatory internet conection?


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          Joe Woodbury
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          No, this is so they legally have the right to implement a periodic callback with WGA.

          Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

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