What you use?

What you use?
windows xp
windows 2000
windows 98
windows 95
or other

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Thanks

I can't believe anybody is still using Windows 95 but you might add the next generation of Windows to the top of your list named Windows Vista (you may have heard of it as codename Longhorn) to the top of the list. I'll be installing the beta version on a workstation later this week. It could be some other members of the forum already have loaded it. And I'd certainly be interested to know their findings.

if by other you mean Mac then yes I like Macs...but now I see Macs can run both windoze and mac osx, my world has become a dark and sinister cold place....javascript:emoticon('')

Hi Portman, and welcome to the forum,

I use XPH at home, have a W98 FE box, that hasn't seen electric in a year, an old lappy on W95, and W2K at work.. Oh, and I admin an old W98 SE machine at the local club. One of these days, I'll get a Linux box running as well.. probably the old W98 I have at home..

Thankfully I've not had the misfortune to use ME in a while, but until last year, I had an NT4 box at work.

Apart from that, I don't use any of the others..

Just out of curiosity, why the interest?

Cheers

Liam

Pete,

You are a very brave man - don't expect that workstation to ever work again!

Tim,

Come on, whenever did a Microsoft OS not work first time

I have actually loaded it on a workstation before, but it was a long time ago . . . and now I can't find the machine.

This time, I'll be loading my digital photo apps on it to see how good/bad it is. I have the latest beta or release candidate (not sure which) so it'll certainly be interesting. I deliberately load this type of thing on old slow machines, just for the hell of it. I've got an old 2.6 Gig HP Pavillion something or other sitting around doing nowt, and I'm getting a bit tired of the familiar XP interface. I do like to live dangerously . . . as long as there is absolutely no risk of me getting hurt.

I have to say that Microsoft are generally proud of their "eat their own dog food" attitude and it's highly probable that many of their workforce are using Windows Vista, even in its beta/RC form, in a production environment IE: using it in anger.

I'm not really much of a pioneer . . . but I like to try and do my bit.

I think you need a good graphics card for Vista, the minimum spec is quite high.

I have already decided that my next home PC will run some flavour of *nix.

Manesty said:
You obviously didn't catch that fiasco recently where Bill Gates got cauhgt running a presentation of the "new" xbox 360 gaming system from 2 Mac g5's !!!

If you are running Windows you're already running *ix (not exactly *nix). Much of Windows is based on the POSIX OS/language.

A long time ago, in a far and distant land, Microsoft once sold XENIX (they obviously couldn't spell UNIX). It was used on Early Altos systems, but I am going back a while to the mid/late 80's.

No I didn't hear about the fiasco you mentioned. I'm an IT professional for goodness sake, spending my days solving customers serious IT issues like showing them how to change the paper or toner or ink cartridge in their printer. You know, technical stuff. I don't have time to listen to tittle tattle

Was it extreme egg on face ? I hope so, nobody should be as rich as Bill Gates. Even his family had a couple of goes at getting it right . . . I'm not sure they succeeded. Isn't he William something or other Gates III ? To be fair, he is giving an awful lot of his money away. Trouble is, he's earning interest faster than he's giving it away, so he's still quids (ok dollars) in.