sunnyy4 Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 There are various reasons why people get WinXP in the first place. I believe that the main reason for that is the visual styles -- everything is just redundant. Another question: If M$ releases a "Luna-Pack" (allowing skinning of windows) for older versions of Windows for $40, would you be willing to revert to Win2K or lower? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youm0nt Veteran Posted June 7, 2002 Veteran Share Posted June 7, 2002 the features, the visual styles and keeping updated is what i like about xp but i voted visual styles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted June 7, 2002 Veteran Share Posted June 7, 2002 'cause it was the new thing out ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluggz Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 keeping up to date, probably Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted June 7, 2002 Veteran Share Posted June 7, 2002 because i wanted to see how good of a crashing os ms could make Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Gates Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 all i know is right when i first installed xp without downloading any updates, i went to see the new screen savers and stuff in properties, and i got my first xp error :p (cannot open a .dll as an app) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seismo Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 Because I was tired of booting Win 98 ten times a day (or more) - Bluescreens and other 'driving me crazy' stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeza Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 just to stay updated :l but i hate it and are now back on win2k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unimatrixzer0 Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 I just like keeping up to date on software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saiyanhalo Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 i had a gun to my head! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saiyanhalo Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 for real tho, the visual styles and the features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackCloud Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 well it came with my PC so... and the other reason was because how it looked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkacow Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 hummmm... where's the place where i can click "because it was free!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramesees Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 What can I say except that I had Windows Millenium Edition preinstalled with my computer Not exactly a hard decision to make when it came to upgrading :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postertoad Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 where's the place where i can click "because it was free!!" Yep! Thats the reason right there. Otherwise I would have stayed on 2k [ME lasted a week before I tossed it]. Well, that was free too so I guess I would have stayed on 98SE - um, that was free as well. If it were not free, I would still be using win98 that came on this horrible packard bell I once owned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dclanz Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Because it was free. But a more important reason...because I wanted the latest software that it had (latest at that time). For example IE6, WMP8, DX8.1 and so on. Sure it could be downloaded for the other O/S's but this had it all built right in...with the bugs, lol.:cheeky: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 because of all the bsod's on earlier os' (excluding win2000) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurting101 Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 ? I thought the Luna interface was cool (at the time, now I'm classic) ? I thought it would be faster than my other computer (it's alot slower) ? Paul Thurrott told me he was going to b;) it ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiles Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Came preinstalled on my Dell, since building a custom win2k server didnt seem to be practical at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 No real reason other than it was new and the look was interesting. I find myself using win2k alot more these days however. Most people want the latest and greatest when it arrives i suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniacid Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 I got it cuz It was faster, doesn't crash, better hardware support, better features and of course the look :), overall i've been very happy with Xp :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murdoc Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 i didnt get it.. M$ sent it to me... (just like other stuff that i would have prolly gotten in the middle east in one of those "open-markets" at "discount prices" hehehe but so far i liked the visual styles... that is before SP1 screwed me over and is now forcing me to use only luna themes... (damn that sp...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniacid Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 theres a way to fix the theme problem in SP 1 , goto my site www.intenseghetto.com I posted it there with the uxtheme file also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deadzombie Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Because I hated 9x versions of Windows but really, really wanted to play Grim Fandango again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budious Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 I got XP because I was a sucker, and would have even more so if I had actually purchased it. I used this crap for last 8 months and through the betas, and it just got more lame the whole time. After I decided to turn off the themes service, I came to the conclusion XP is just 2k with more bugs. Im happily back at using Windows 2000 SP2 and anticipating SP3 arrival. Screw XP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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