Heres a little mini-review from my experience with XP.
I have the second beta of windows XP.(pre RC1 build 2486) And I think its going to be a big hit. Its really nice, really easy to use and just about everything I through at it ran without a problem. The new look and feel of windows took about a week to grow on me. at first I found it kind of annoying. I'm not into that flashy shit. And just like they stated in the review you linked, the activation is very shitty. But if you look in the right places you can get a simple crack for it. The install was nice and simple but took about 2 hours on my machine. I still cant believe I sat through the whole thing. After all of that it almost killed me to have to format the drive when the 14days were up. hehe, just when I started to fall in love with it.
in a nutshell, XP is a great OS. So if any of you decide to check it out please post a little review of what you think.
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[This message has been edited by Dr DRAM (edited 07-07-2001).]