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"EvilBill" <quake2lives@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> McG. wrote:
>>>
>> All the people that buy retail shelf PC's will be buying whatever is
>> preinstalled on them, whether laptop or desktop.
>
> Such people are almost never hardcore gamers, though <g> We build our 
> own ;) Or at least specify the components we want and then install our 
> own choice of OS. <g>
>
>>   I reckon M$ fully
>> realizes this is their avenue to the public for some time to come. 
>> I
>> was very ready to leave 9x and NT behind.  Not at all ready to even
>> play with the Vista Beta2 I have.
>> Egads man... I'm actually *enjoying* using XP Pro 32 and 64 :-\
>
> I was ecstatic to leave Win98 behind, I had nothing but problems with 
> it. Not so happy to have to leave Windows 2000 for XP but that was a 
> necessary evil since 2K's hardware detection in setup didn't like 
> something in this box. LOL
>
> -- 
> -- 
> * I always hope for the best. Experience, unfortunately, has taught me
> to expect the worst.
>
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I've still never run W2K.   But I've never run ME either so hey :)   I 
got into XP Pro with the public beta RC2, and have stayed with it ever 
since.  My laptop came with XP Home SP2 on it.  I like XP.  It's easy to 
get along with!
McG.