Subj : pro
To   : Jeff Guerdat
From : Chris Cranford
Date : Fri Nov 23 2001 11:14 am

-> I have some concern with some of these features, extending MS' reach into
-> ongoing money-making venture for each feature you use.  MS wants to charge
-> fee for each e-biz thing you do that's part of the OS (digital pictures 
comes
-> to mind - send it off to some company for printing, say, and MS charges it's
-> own fee).  To me, that's not a function of the OS.  I want an OS to enable
-> to do something.  If I do business using it, I'm doing business with one 
other
-> company.  I don't want to pay a "freight" charge for simply using the 
service.

  Exactly!  It would be like your ISP charging you "POSTAGE" per
  electronic email that you send through their network.  It's an
  electronic transmission that doesn't require any human help to
  arrive at it's destination.

  This is probably one of the ultimate turn-offs I have with WXP
  at the moment.

-> Right now, the only thing that would make me go to XP instead of W2K that
-> use now would be a new computer that preloads it...

  If I purchased a new PC, you can probably count your cookies 
  that I'd wipe the drive clean and put W2k on it in a heartbeat.
  That's just my opinion as I'm not an excited XP fan yet.

  But who knows, they'll probably be some "awesome" feature 
  that I'll find in XP that will force me to upgrade in order 
  to leverage that feature.  For W2k, it was pure look-n-feel in
  a lot of cases.  The desktop, environment, and features are 
  all professional looking and very "up-to-date" compare to the
  things available in WinNT.

  Ciao!
  Chris

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