Minimum services required to run Windows XP

In , ultrum wrote:

WinXP is not meant for average users.


Of course it is. It's meant for everyone. And the vast majority
of those avaerage users who have it installed use it without a
problem.

--
Ken Blake
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There are 322,000 threads on general and 160,000 threads on
help_and_support newsgroups. These are very small portion of
discussions took place.
I can predict a few million emails are exchanged regarding the WinXP
problems.
How many people do owe WinXP? A few hundred thousands???

Forget about that there are bunch of people blessed by XP,
I can challange you to find one person that did not have one
problem on WinXP. There would, if he did not turn on his PC.

There is no point in denying the problems. We are trying to
solve the issues here (and the software engineers at Microsoft
are not out fishing or are they?).

"Ken Blake" wrote in message ...
In , ultrum wrote:

WinXP is not meant for average users.


Of course it is. It's meant for everyone. And the vast majority
of those avaerage users who have it installed use it without a
problem.

The Microsoft people are busy playing Bridge and planning how to screw the
consumer for more money.





"ultrum" wrote in message
om...
There are 322,000 threads on general and 160,000 threads on
help_and_support newsgroups. These are very small portion of
discussions took place.
I can predict a few million emails are exchanged regarding the WinXP
problems.
How many people do owe WinXP? A few hundred thousands???

Forget about that there are bunch of people blessed by XP,
I can challange you to find one person that did not have one
problem on WinXP. There would, if he did not turn on his PC.

There is no point in denying the problems. We are trying to
solve the issues here (and the software engineers at Microsoft
are not out fishing or are they?).

"Ken Blake" wrote in message
...
In , ultrum wrote:

WinXP is not meant for average users.


Of course it is. It's meant for everyone. And the vast majority
of those avaerage users who have it installed use it without a
problem.

"ultrum" wrote in message
om...
How many people do owe WinXP? A few hundred thousands???

You've got to be kidding, right!!!

A million copies were sold within the first couple of months. It has been
out for almost 2 years now!

..

"ultrum" wrote in message
om...

There are 322,000 threads on general and 160,000 threads on
help_and_support newsgroups. These are very small portion of
discussions took place.


There are always people who have questions on how to do
something. And there are always some problems, especially when a
product is new and widely used. I'm not denying that some
problems exist--no operating system is perfect--but my experience
is that there are far fewer problems than with any other version
of Windows. How many threads were there on the Windows 98
newsgroups at the same point in its lifecycle?

People come to these newsgroups when they have questions or
problems. That's their function. The number of questions you see
here are not representative of the world at large. Someone once
said that if you hang around a transmission shop, you'll think
that all cars have transmission problems.

Also note that a great number of questions asked here are
answered simply by telling someone who just didn't know how to do
something what to do. For example, I just answered a question
from someone who thought it was a bug that his task bar had moved
to the top of his screen. That's not a bug; he just didn't know
how to move it where he wanted it. And note too that I would have
given him the same answer if he had asked in a Windows 98
newsgroup, because it worked the same way there.

Many other people describe problems that turn out to be hardware
problems, not Windows ones. Still others ask about application
software, sometimes not realizing that that's a different subject
from Windows. For example, the number of people who complain here
that they can't find Word in Windows XP continually amazes me.


How many people do owe WinXP? A few hundred thousands???


Not even close to right. It's millions.


Forget about that there are bunch of people blessed by XP,
I can challange you to find one person that did not have one
problem on WinXP. There would, if he did not turn on his PC.


One? I know lots. I'm one--I've had no problems with XP, and I
know *many* others who haven't either. Many have questions about
how to do something, but that's no surprise. Many people had
similar questions about how to do things in previous versions of
Windows too.


There is no point in denying the problems. We are trying to
solve the issues here (and the software engineers at Microsoft
are not out fishing or are they?).


I don't deny that Windows XP is not perfect. No operating system
ever has been, and no operating system ever will be. But as I
said above, I've seen fewer problems with XP that in any previous
version of Windows. And those problems are generally much more
minor. For example, Windows XP, on both machines here, running
daily since XP was first released, has *never* crashed, frozen,
or blue-screened.

I *emphatically* deny that "WinXP is not meant for average
users." Windows XP is meant for everyone. And even more important
than who Microsoft meant it for, it works better for average
users than any other version ever did.

--
Ken Blake
Please reply to the newsgroup



"Ken Blake" wrote in
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In , ultrum
wrote:

WinXP is not meant for average users.


Of course it is. It's meant for everyone. And the vast
majority
of those avaerage users who have it installed use it without
a
problem.

Ultrum,
I have never had any problems with Windows XP though my hardware specs are
quite old. Most of the people have problems with some other programs which
do not function properly under Windows XP.

--
Anando
Microsoft-MVP for Windows XP
Know more about the MVP program- http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
Indian MVPs- http://www.microsoft.com/india/mvp/indiamvp.aspx


"ultrum" wrote in message
om...
There are 322,000 threads on general and 160,000 threads on
help_and_support newsgroups. These are very small portion of
discussions took place.
I can predict a few million emails are exchanged regarding the WinXP
problems.
How many people do owe WinXP? A few hundred thousands???

Forget about that there are bunch of people blessed by XP,
I can challange you to find one person that did not have one
problem on WinXP. There would, if he did not turn on his PC.

There is no point in denying the problems. We are trying to
solve the issues here (and the software engineers at Microsoft
are not out fishing or are they?).

"Ken Blake" wrote in message
...
In , ultrum wrote:

WinXP is not meant for average users.


Of course it is. It's meant for everyone. And the vast majority
of those avaerage users who have it installed use it without a
problem.

Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-), after spending 3 minutes figuring out which end of
the pen to use, wrote:

"ultrum" wrote in message
om...
How many people do owe WinXP? A few hundred thousands???

You've got to be kidding, right!!!

A million copies were sold within the first couple of months. It has been
out for almost 2 years now!

.

A million copies were sold to OEM's and retailers. You nor anyone else have
absolutely no idea how many are actually *owned* and running XPee right now. I
bet if M$ put out a statement that they milk flying cows every morning you'd
believe that too.

John
--
http://microscum.kurttrail.com/mmpafaq/mmpafaq.htm
http://kadaitcha.ath.cx/

Ditto here, not a single problem. I've also helped quite a few people with
the installation on their machines, some of which were quite old, and had
very few problems...and even those problems were correctable.

--
http://dhs.has.it


"Anando [MS-MVP]" wrote in message
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Ultrum,
I have never had any problems with Windows XP though my hardware specs are
quite old. Most of the people have problems with some other programs which
do not function properly under Windows XP.

--
Anando
Microsoft-MVP for Windows XP
Know more about the MVP program- http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
Indian MVPs- http://www.microsoft.com/india/mvp/indiamvp.aspx


"ultrum" wrote in message
om...
There are 322,000 threads on general and 160,000 threads on
help_and_support newsgroups. These are very small portion of
discussions took place.
I can predict a few million emails are exchanged regarding the WinXP
problems.
How many people do owe WinXP? A few hundred thousands???

Forget about that there are bunch of people blessed by XP,
I can challange you to find one person that did not have one
problem on WinXP. There would, if he did not turn on his PC.

There is no point in denying the problems. We are trying to
solve the issues here (and the software engineers at Microsoft
are not out fishing or are they?).

"Ken Blake" wrote in message
...
In , ultrum wrote:

WinXP is not meant for average users.


Of course it is. It's meant for everyone. And the vast majority
of those avaerage users who have it installed use it without a
problem.

I seriously doubt there are 1 million XP users.
I feel bad for them.

"Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)" wrote in message ...
"ultrum" wrote in message
om...
How many people do owe WinXP? A few hundred thousands???

You've got to be kidding, right!!!

A million copies were sold within the first couple of months. It has been
out for almost 2 years now!

.

I seriously doubt that there are less than one million XP users worldwide.
And why do you feel bad for them? XP is by far the best OS to date that
Microsoft has developed. Had XP not come out when it did I would have left
Windows behind by now.

--
http://dhs.has.it


"ultrum" wrote in message
om...
I seriously doubt there are 1 million XP users.
I feel bad for them.

"Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)" wrote
in message ...
"ultrum" wrote in message
om...
How many people do owe WinXP? A few hundred thousands???

You've got to be kidding, right!!!

A million copies were sold within the first couple of months. It has
been
out for almost 2 years now!

.

"ultrum" wrote in message
om...

I seriously doubt there are 1 million XP users.


There are *far* far more. Here's an old article, dated November
11, 2001: "Sales of Windows XP Exceed 7 Million Copies Within
Weeks of Worldwide Debut"

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/P...XPComdexPR.asp

--
Ken Blake
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I feel bad for them.

"Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)"
wrote in message
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"ultrum" wrote in message
om...
How many people do owe WinXP? A few hundred thousands???

You've got to be kidding, right!!!

A million copies were sold within the first couple of months.
It has been
out for almost 2 years now!

.

I would expect that the world-wide base for XP (home and
pro) is in the tens of millions.

Since 95% of the computers sold in the past two years have
had XP installed as sold, and many older computers have been
upgraded....

Since MS requires activation for XP they sell, and OEMs may
activate in their systems, they can probably give a count
exactly.


"ultrum" wrote in message
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| I seriously doubt there are 1 million XP users.
| I feel bad for them.
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| "Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)"
wrote in message
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| "ultrum" wrote in message
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| How many people do owe WinXP? A few hundred
thousands???
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| You've got to be kidding, right!!!
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| A million copies were sold within the first couple of
months. It has been
| out for almost 2 years now!
|
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Ken Blake wrote:
In , ultrum wrote:

WinXP is not meant for average users.


Of course it is. It's meant for everyone. And the vast majority
of those avaerage users who have it installed use it without a
problem.

Of course, "average users" don't tweak things. It's the people that
know enough to get themselves into trouble that blow up their systems.
Forunatelly, "ultrum" was non-average enough to make a ghost image of a
working system first.

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Ken Blake wrote:
In , ultrum
wrote:

WinXP is not meant for average users.


Of course it is. It's meant for everyone. And the vast
majority
of those avaerage users who have it installed use it without
a
problem.

Of course, "average users" don't tweak things. It's the people
that
know enough to get themselves into trouble that blow up their
systems.


There's a lot of truth in that. And it's irrespective of what
operating system is being used.

--
Ken Blake
Please reply to the newsgroup

Are we talking USA or world wide.




"Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)" wrote in
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"ultrum" wrote in message
om...
How many people do owe WinXP? A few hundred thousands???

You've got to be kidding, right!!!

A million copies were sold within the first couple of months. It has been
out for almost 2 years now!

.