Gee, maybe he PURCHASED IT!! Let's see, XP Home... Oh, and
even XP Pro can be purchased by an individual, well fancy that..
You missed the point.
The point being that Win 2K was NOT, repeat, NOT for home use (as per
Microsoft's own product description). Yet we have XP (which is a
minor derivative of Win 2K) and now Microsoft has no alternative to
Win 98 or ME, so they come up with a slightly hacked version of XP and
call it "XP home". It's still a bloated, over-managed, over-serviced
bear of an operating system that (for the average home user) is more
trouble than it's worth (when compared to Win 98).
When you _really_ need to do something with it (like fix something,
like, say, A VIRUS) it won't let you. It's too internally convoluted
for it's own good.
You want to know why spam has exploded over the past 3 years?
It's because of XP on home computers. It's because Micro$hit was
criminally negligent when it put ZERO effort at releasing a home
version of XP with dozens of useless services turned off. Because
with thousands of programmers they generated so much code that was
vulnerable to buffer overruns.
Anyone running XP who gets infected with mal-ware and can't figure out
how to get rid of it deserves what they get. Go run to daddy Gates,
get him to fix your computer. He promised you a more exciting, a more
productive, a more secure computing experience with XP. Go ask him
where those promises went. I'll tell you where they are - they were
pulled out of the ass holes of Micro$haft's marketing staff. And they
have more promises they will pull out of their asses and shove down
your throat when they start their bullshit advertizing for Windows
Vista (which is really a modified version of Server 2003, which was
never meant for home use until Micro$loth re-names it to something
else and then says it was naturally designed for home use).
