Posting Date: April 25, 2002

XP Means Extra Pain (Fortune) -- "XP is not fundamentally easier to use. Windows XP is prettier than Windows 2000 or Windows 98. The color schemes are more attractive, and Microsoft seems to have paid a real graphic designer to refine the icons and other screen elements. But XP is still Windows. Keeping track of programs or data still requires you to know how the operating system stores things. Configuring applications still requires you to dive into multiple levels of menus."

Reader Comments...

Any person who claims that XP is worse either doesn't know what he is talking about or he just wants to bash Microsoft.

Posted by: Murat Akin on April 27, 2002 03:20 AM

Comparatively speaking, the current GUI WIMPs of all flavors are out of ideas. XP is a sidegrade. Not better or worse. Just different. The slogan of the age, don't think better -- just different.

Posted by: (the other)JS on April 27, 2002 09:18 AM

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