Microsoft Windows XP (Whistler)

<< WHY >> Before I start in on the main part of this review I will give you a little background. I have been working in IT for 17 years now, I started out using CPM & DOS based machines, played with GEM then Windows 286,3,95,98,SE,NT4,ME,2000. I currently run the my company's R&D function ensuring that new hardware and software are compatible with our existing systems and follow company policies. I first encountered XP at beta level and have been following its progress ever since, I have refrained from commenting on the product until it was in the real world. << THE OS >> OK, enough of banging my own drum. You clicked ...  Read the complete review

They say ?if it aint broke don?t try to fix it?, It is this comment which replays over and over in my head whenever I install a new operating system sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for a dreaded error message. Surprisingly I wasn?t greeted with any error messages during or after installation and the setup process was very user friendly. The process took approximately 75 minutes running at 666 MHZ. Before actually installing Windows XP on your computer you are given the choice to scan your hard disk drive for any programs which may be incompatible with your new operating system. Thankfully most of my programs were functional with the exception of Norton ...  Read the complete review

Windows XP Many years ago, when PC operating systems where still in their text only domain, there came along an operating system which made us all sit up, take notice and say WOW!. That Operating system was Windows 95. Now since Windows 95 came along there have been lots of newer versions of Windows 95 but they have never been radically different in look, feel or buggy-ness. That is until Microsoft's latest incarnation of Windows fell on to the market. So, called Windows XP (XP box is raised to the heavens and angels cry Windows XP) Alright so, what is this XP, what does it do? where does it do it and most ...  Read the complete review

The long awaited Windows XP finally came, but was it really worth the excitement? Well, Windows XP now looks totally different to any other Windows and it also doesn't even seem like you are using 'Windows'. At least anyway all Windows programs run much better on XP and it contains many extra and useful features, such as stuff to do more with digital video and audio work, and also the ability to make multiple networking much easier. There are so many changes made to Windows that its quite hard to state all of them, I would have to go through a very long list! One feature that I did like was the driver protection which blocks other drivers which ...  Read the complete review

My machine, a Dell 8100 with a 1.7Ghz Pentium 4 processor, 40Gb Ultra DMA 100 hard drive and 1Gb of RAM already had Windows 2000 installed as well as Red Hat Linux 7.1. One of them had to go for the purposes of this test, and unfortunately it was Linux (as Windows is used heavily by my fiancé, so I couldn't get rid of that). So, I insserted the CD and waited to see what - if anything - would happen. The installation resembles a cross between Windows 98 and Windows 2000. When Windows XP gets to the "main" installer having copied the installation files to hard drive during the text-based portion of the installer before partioning, etc., it very much ...  Read the complete review