Where my mind was 1999-12-11...
© 2000 Per Johansson All rights reserved
1999-12-11
Another Saturday ! Following my test of the new beta of IE
5.5, I noticed some more crashes than normal on my Win
95 OSR-2 installation. Thus, I could find no other way than ( very
late ) surrender and install Windows 98 ( I
have resisted long enough ). To my surprise, IE 5.5 now works
rock solid under Windows 98. And as a funny remark: In the "help",
"about"-boxes in "My Computer" and "Windows Explorer"
it now says "Windows Millenium" instead of "Windows
98". That thing didn´t occur under Windows 95. In fact:
since I installed Windows 98 at Wednesday I haven´t had a
single crash. And the OS and browser is very speedy. That
looks as good foreseeings over the upcoming "Millenium". No big
guess that there won´t be very many complaints over the new 9x OS.
And as I have heard, that will also be the slogan: "It works".
One funny remark is that; I had no wish to once again reinstall all my software after my Windows 2000 tests. So I ( against all recommendations ) just installed Windows 98 right into the original Windows 95 folder. I know that should mean trouble, but in fact, all previously installed software works just perfect. AND is speedier than under Windows 95. I guess that Windows 98 have had more bad reputation than it rightfully earns. It really seems to be a much better OS than Windows 95.
Of course NT4 and Windows 2000 is very stable, but both lacks a good portion of both hardware and software support. A compromise necessary to be had, to keep system security (Which is not very important in a home environment, where one just want´s maximum compability ).
The Linux community have really made noice over Windows,
but to be perfectly honest: Linux is practically USELESS and
utterly time consuming for productive work, at it´s current stage
( YES, I have tested a few of the latest distributions, I like SuSE
Linux best ). As cheap server software: O.K.. At home: Laugh
out loud ! But I guess that Linux could be a reasonable desktop alternative
in, mabe two years ( when they´ve sorted out the GUI, fixed an
OLE model and provided decent graphics and font support
plus got rid of the necessity to use the command line. And of
course: A functional copy of Windows Explorer. Hmm, why not use
Windows ? ). Anyway, it´s fun tweakin´around with Linux, but one can´t
say it´s the least productive in any obvious way.
And, of course, all my prime music creation software is designed for Windows
98 so I guess I will be stuck until "Millenium" arrives
( Windows 2000 will just have to few apps working under it ).
SeeYa/Per
