Re: hhjm
ambi said:
Yea im sure you've done several upgrades that "worked". But as a general rule NEVER upgrade.
Well...
I do this for a living. Im not talking about working at best buy installing hard drives either. I have been working on computers since before the IBM pc was even out. I have worked with every PC operating system. Dos 1.x-6.x, Novel Dos, xenix, unix, CP/M,windows 1.x(which totally blew chunks), windows 3.x, OS/2, NT3.x, NT4, 2k, 95 a b and c, 98 ME. I beta tested 2k, XP, and ME.
My current job is as a systems administrator over a lab at a very large Aircraft manufacturer, we have a 15,000 node network (just our lan, the one site), so we get to test all the new stuff that microsoft and others bring out before anybody else, and my lab is where we test all the new computers, Os, network hardware, and applications that people are trying to sell us, or that our in-house developers come up with for bugs. In short, I try to break shit when I install new operating systems, I try to find the holes, so our techs and admins in the production enviroment wont find them the hard way. That said, your trying to tell Noah about the Ark here. I would totally agree with you on previous versions of windows, but XP does a really good job on upgrades. If the system is totally hosed, maybe you'll have problems, but if your system is in good shape, and you dont have any wierd, unsupported hardware, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY no reason to do a clean install.