Mike wrote:
On Thursday 09 August 2007 16:54, Tero Pesonen wrote:
FWIW, a friend has an IBM ThinkPad, that came loaded with Windows 98. A couple of years ago, she upgraded to XP and found she could no longer play video DVDs. After some checking, we found that she has to buy the necessary software, from a web site that's very irritating and difficult to navigate through. She decided against providing her credit card info and went without DVD video playback. Another issue is when you install such things, you often get a load of crapware along with it. So, it is not always so easy for Windows users either.
interesting. This was new to me.
It is? Here's a challenge. Take a new computer with NO OS on it. Install XP and tell me what you can do with it except surf the net with IE, use Outlook express, and play solitaire.
Sometimes you can't even do that much. As I mentioned in another note, someone tried installing XP on a notebook and found he had no driver for the NIC. He had to use another computer to download one. Also, a few years ago, I installed XP for someone and it wouldn't recognize their U.S. Robotics modem. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org