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Originally Posted by Koodari
So if I read correctly, the problems were...
1) Dell hardware sucks for upgrading. (Commonly known. There are other manufacturers to pick from.)
2) Windows had not been kept up to date. (It should.)
3) Windows does not automatically format the new drive, you have to use a partitioning program, one of which is included with Windows.
There's room for improvement, but it doesn't seem all that bad really.
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I agree, to me, this seem less of a Windows XP issue than a Dell issue. Personally, I like that XP doesn't make many assumptions as to how I want to use the PC. Windows XP is far from perfect, but I have had no more issues with WinXP as an OS than I have had with OSX as an OS (in fact, I have never had a catastrophic failure with WinXP, but unfortunately suffered on in OSX... which required a complete OS reinstall). Then again, I have been using Windows alot longer, and feel more comfortable troubleshooting any issues.
Which computer do I use more? My PowerBook, of course. But, Windows XP does what I need and want it to do just fine. So, does the Solaris PC I use, and the Gentoo-Linux PC I use.