"Norma F. Jennings" <njennings@lisco.net> wrote: >Carmen, the Computer Shopper had a recent article on Windows XP (Bill and Alice's column). Bill had difficulty with XP and >ended up having to buy some new cards and equipment. Also, it conflicted with Netscape. Another little shenanigan pulled by >Microsoft to monopolize the market. Can't remember all the details but I ended up with a negative view of XP. > >ME has been an improvement for me, but here, too, I had to reinstall several programs from other companies. Wordperfect, >Netscape and Omnipage. ME tried to convert me to an all Microsoft environment but I was able to work around it without >having to upgrade any equipment or software. If you can handle the idiosyncrasies of Microsoft's dominance, you would be >okay, otherwise proceed with caution with XP. > >Norma Jennings > > I had no problems at all switching from win95 to WinMe. Dick Eastman did a piece about XP in his newsletter a couple weeks ago and and was very positive. You might look that up at Ancestry. -Richard