Peter's Blog 24.12.2003

The big news today is that I finally succombed to..

The big news today is that I finally succombed to buying Windows XP. I did this because:

1. It might stop it crashing

2. It might boot faster

3. It's a new toy

4. It might be easier for Bisi to use

5. It miqht be better

6. It's christmas

Installed it over linux on half the disk, leaving Win2k intact, just in case. Installed it like this:

1. Tried running setup from Win2k but it said something about an unsupported upgrade path and kicked me out.

2. Set PC to boot from CD and booted XP disk

3. Set it to install over linux

4. Followed dialogs

5. Activated it

It Just Worked. It had to install 20 minutes worth of updates but it still booted.

Thoughts:

• What's the difference?

• Installed Intellimail and set it. Somehow it found most of the account settings. It is a nice piece of software

• IE6 seemed very quick. Is it because of XP ?

• Installed Mozilla, no time left to play with it

• XP set up all the networking (and everything else). Got to love the simplicity of the networked router.