Switching to XP?

[t048]

I was chatting with some of the sysadmins at work the other day about Windows XP. The general consensus was that they didn’t want to switch to that OS from 98SE, 2K, and Red Hat. They said it would be much harder to maintain.

Is anyone here planning on switching to WinXP when it is released? I hear some people are excited about it while others dread its release. I personally don’t really know, yet I think it would be fun to have a new toy, but I don’t like all of the rumored "security" features MS has implanted into XP. For example, I understand there is going to be some sort of MP3 copyright protection. I like to rip all of my CDs to MP3s because it is easier then messing with the disks (CDs are kind of clumsy, IMHO). I’ll probably wait a while and see. I did that with Windows 95, 98, and ME.

[jkittlesen]

Have made the turn,like the new O.S.

[RamonGTP]

I'm currently running win2k pro and i'm very happy with it, its stable, fast, and all the games I play have worked just fine with it. Luckily I have more then one system, so I probebly will setup XP on one of them, but not my primary one. If i'm happy with it and like it better than win2k, i'll take the plunge and put in on my primary system as well.

-Ramon

[MadMatt]

The company I work for sure is! We're beta testing it right now. In mid-October we're doing a pilot of XP with ~200 users. Barring any major problems, we will then begin rolling out new P4 machines with XP Pro on them to all 45,000+ users! The servers start getting migrated over next month. It looks like I won't be able to take a vacation until early 2003!

Not sure why your sysadmins think it will be harder to maintain. Compared to other flavors of Windows, especially 9x, it's a dream. Once you get Active Directory sorted out, a network based on XP is very nice!

[frnkzks]

Hell no!

Microsoft has been releasing new versions of Windows at the rate of one per year in recent years!

It seems to me that Microsoft wants the entire world to get a new copy of Windows every year!

To the guy whose entire company is upgrading to Pentium 4 and Windows XP, at least you are helping the economy...

[Mr.Goodbytes]

Well, if I go to XP I certainly won't migrate to Office XP as well. I'm not a big fan of a double performance hit, in the amount of 25%. I swear it's like a teenager in a growth spurt, except it seems to grow out and get bloated rather than grow up.

[JohnC]

I'll stick with Win2k until at least the first two service packs come out for XP. By then, hopefully, they'll fix some of the usual bugs and compatability issues. I've done this with all OS releases since NT4.0.

I'll have to "upgrade" someday, because I support different OSs (Solaris and MAC os too) at work and elsewhere. So, the only way to learn about it is to use it.

[muchmark]

I have been running XP betas and now RC1,
it is much slower than Win2K it requires
128Megs of ram just for the OS.
I dont think the built in firewall or CD
recording software is going to be of much use.If you like "bells + whistles" there are
tons of it...It looks good but that is about it.

Regards

[t048]

Not sure why your sysadmins think it will be harder to maintain. Compared to other flavors of Windows, especially 9x, it's a dream. Once you get Active Directory sorted out, a network based on XP is very nice!

We have licenses for all the computers we install Windows on, but we only install one copy on a single computer and image the drive to all of the rest of the computers. They say that with XP locking itself to a certain hardware config, it will make imaging impossible.