Windows XP: Prices, And One Reaction

Jim42688 writes: "Looks like the prices Amazon was reporting for Windows XP a while back were right. On the back of today's ad for CompUSA, it lists the prices to preorder. Home Full, 199.99, Home Upgrade, 99.99. Professional full, 299.99, Professional upgrade, 199.99." Perfect timing -- Fwis writes: "Use your power as a consumer to Boycott XP. The site is now functioning smoothly, and we invite you to log in and participate in discussions, polls, and news stories related to Microsoft's release of the XP line of products." There are some interesting links on this page if you (or someone with purchasing power at your company) is considering XP.

WindowsRG

[jeffehobbs]

Personally, I'm waiting for WindowsRG.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/uploads/27000/275 49_winrg2.swf [newgrounds.com]

price

[Anonymous Coward]

Home Full, 199.99, Home Upgrade, 99.99. Professional full, 299.99, Professional upgrade, 199.99."

Linux... Priceless

Back up now

[Publicus]

Hey, I'm an editor at boycottxp.com, we got hit hard there but we're back up now and we should stay that way. It might be a little slow at first but keep checking back as the traffic levels off. We're excited to hear what you have to say.

Re:Let The Invisible Hand Do Its Work

[Anonymous Coward]

BillG locked the invisible hand in a closet in his basement. It's been knocking *really* loudly of late, though, so we may yet see it let out to do its work.

2600

[CrimsonHat]

Did anybody else find it funny that the final build number on Windows XP was 2600? Do you think the programmers there wanted to be cool and go along with the "hacker" ideal of 2600 magazine? When our group got the latest build, I started laughing my ass off, but nobody in the group got it.

I'm not really in a position to boycott it since I have to write software for it. From what I've seen it's not too bad, and has some new features that W2k didn't have. Overall, I'm probably going to stick with W2k on my desktop for quite a while still.

One other fairly positive thing that I have to say about MS is their support for developers. Mac came out with OS X and then tried to give support to developers. Just try and find drivers for OS X and it's already been out for months! MS lets developers know a couple of years ahead of time that they are going to have a new OS come out. They give developers a bunch of Betas to work with, a bunch of release candidates, so that by the time they have the OS released, there actually are a good amount of drivers released for the OS. Apple released an OS which was basically a beta that people had to pay money for, and then didn't really give driver developers good support. Sure Windows XP isn't going to support every piece of hardware ever made, but I bet when it's finally released it will support a lot more than OS X does.

Re:Top 10 reasons XP kicks ass

[ThatComputerGuy]

10) Remote assistance lets support people connect to people's machines and fix problems over the internet.

You mean we don't have to even try to get BO onto Windows boxes anymore? MS is going to integrate it into XP for us? Sweet!