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Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP

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On Friday 14 March 2014 21:06, Johny B Good conveyed the following to 
comp.misc...

> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:47:33 +0000 (UTC), RS Wood
> <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-03-14, Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:56:33 +0000 (UTC), RS Wood
>>><rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Better double check...
>>>
>>>  Just checked, and guess what? It says "You are NOT running Windows
>>>  XP", which is all perfectly true, I'm running Windows 2000 SP4 :-)
>>
>> Holy cow, you win!  For shits and giggles in February I decided I'd
>> install Windows on a virtual machine so I could play around.  I
>> immediately gave up on Win7, even though I use it at work.  WinXP had
>> heavy requirements (# of GB for a base install) but I found myself
>> wishing I could track down a Win2000 disk, as it was pretty modest.
>>
>> What's the point of a virtual machine running an OS that requires
>> 20GB for an install?
> 
>  Well, one reason why MS made the storage requirements 20 times larger
> than win2k was possibly to put people off the idea of turning their
> latest PoS OS into a "Disposable App". That wouldn't stop me, however,
> from _only_ tolerating winXP and offspring as VM installs.
> 
>  More likely it was because 'they could' (they'd developed another
> 19GB's worth of bloat they just had to use up and the hardware
> improvements in storage capacity and performance since the days of
> wiin 2k would allow them to get away with it without too much change
> to the apparent responsiveness of the system).
> 
>  It pays not to lose sight of the fact that every MS "Upgrade" is
> effectively a hardware downgrade.

     "Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."

There *is* an actual intent behind it.  Microsoft makes most of its 
Windows license sales from pre-installed copies on branded computers.  
Obsoleting the hardware by bloat in the operating system means that the 
(naive) customer will be more quickly inclined to purchase a new machine 
(with a new Windows copy/license).

This is good for Microsoft, and it's good for the computer vendors.  So 
that's a deal they've got going on between them.  And it's probably 
documented somewhere on the Web too.

-- 
= Aragorn =

         http://www.linuxcounter.net - registrant #223157

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How to tell if you're running WinXP RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-14 10:56 +0000
  Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Adrian C <email@here.invalid> - 2014-03-14 11:44 +0000
  Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-14 18:48 +0000
    Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-14 19:47 +0000
      Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-14 21:03 +0100
      Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-14 20:06 +0000
        Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-14 21:19 +0100
          Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-14 22:28 +0000
            Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-15 03:18 +0100
      Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-03-14 20:58 +0000
        Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-16 04:20 +0100
          Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-17 10:35 +0000
            Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-19 22:38 +0100
      Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Elmer <efudd@invalid.com> - 2014-03-14 20:55 -0500
        Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-15 12:41 +0000
          Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-15 14:09 +0000
            Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-15 16:52 +0000
              Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-15 18:10 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-17 10:34 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-17 12:35 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-19 16:31 +0100
          Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-15 14:20 +0000
            Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-15 16:21 +0000
            Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-15 16:54 +0000
            Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-03-15 17:20 +0000
              Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-15 17:32 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-15 18:01 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-15 19:19 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-17 19:18 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-17 19:27 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-17 21:38 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-17 10:33 +0000
            Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-16 12:13 +0100
    Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP despen@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) - 2014-03-14 15:53 -0400
      Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-14 20:25 +0000
    Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-14 22:26 +0000
      Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-15 00:51 +0000
        Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Scion <a.b@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-20 16:41 +0000

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