8th May 2006, 3:28 PM
And Media Center Edition isn't that much of an update, it's just an added flavor with added fluff that has pros and cons. I prefer professional, due to the lack of the hooks taking up memory.
But honestly, there was good reason why some games needed XP. The OS was substantially different enough that making software for both 9x and NT became not worth it, and XP itself really was a major update over the 9x series. This however, they would have to "dongle" it and that's easy enough to get around.
By the way, last I checked Mac is still using OS Ten. If the new updates have really been that substantial, why didn't their naming convention reflect that? Are they so obsessed with how neat the X is that they forgo accurate naming just to keep it?
No matter, at any rate I'd be hard pressed to constantly BUY a brand new OS anyway. I've read about the little updates here and there, and honestly all I need my OS to do is run my programs. At the end of the day, that's all it exists to do, allow me to run my applications.
But honestly, there was good reason why some games needed XP. The OS was substantially different enough that making software for both 9x and NT became not worth it, and XP itself really was a major update over the 9x series. This however, they would have to "dongle" it and that's easy enough to get around.
By the way, last I checked Mac is still using OS Ten. If the new updates have really been that substantial, why didn't their naming convention reflect that? Are they so obsessed with how neat the X is that they forgo accurate naming just to keep it?
No matter, at any rate I'd be hard pressed to constantly BUY a brand new OS anyway. I've read about the little updates here and there, and honestly all I need my OS to do is run my programs. At the end of the day, that's all it exists to do, allow me to run my applications.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)