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Average Ratings
Value for Money7.2/10
Overall rating7.3/10
64% Recommended7 out of 11 Reviews

Review of Microsoft Windows XP

By borrowed lab monkey on 3rd Feb 2004

borrowed lab monkey's Ratings
Value for money3/10
Overall value2/10
no borrowed lab monkey's recommendation

Good Points

backward compatability to Win98 System restore NTFS for the end user

Bad Points

Relativly fragile OS Pathetic hotfix support

General Comments

I found on first instaling it that Microsoft Windows XP looked like the Operating System we've been promised by Microsoft since Win 95. After 4 hours of instaling hotfixes, patches and othe security updates (shades of Win98 stability?) i couldnt get my most important pieces of software to load, MS office XP and Norton System Works 2004 Pro. The problem? One of the 60 some patches turned out to be the culprit, though which one im not sure...
after a trip with fdisk and a reinstalation, i got the stuff to work without the patches with no problems. Then the real trouble started. Crash after crash, booting up after a proper shutdown and being informed that my system has'recovered from a serious error' and never being told what that error is or where to get more information was all too much for me. I liked the way it looked and it had cool support features like backward compatibility, but what good is that when you cant even use youre own computer for more than 2 hours because of persistant crashes? In short, im going back to Win 2000 as my client software OS and im not touching another MS product untill i absolutly have to.

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