JAY EMRIE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 JE> Roy, I honestly think excluding XP is a big mistake. I started out
 JE> with DOS in the very early days of PCs, went to OS2, when it sorta
 JE> folded went to Windows, then on to the various later versions of
 JE> Windows, and I honestly find XP to be the very best operating
 JE> system.

Yeah, but that's a relative thing.

 JE> I tried Linux briefly and had to drop it because there just wasn't 
 JE> any applications available to properly do the things I was 
 JE> interested in.

Then you might want to take another look from time to time.  That situation
changes continually.  My brother said the same thing, and he's now running
WINE to deal with it.

 JE> It is/was a good OS, but there just wasn't enough people writing 
 JE> applications for it since Windows had such a strangle hold on the 
 JE> public.

Yep.

 JE> However, it is used by the extremely great majority of the computer
 JE> using population - there fore will always have the most advanced
 JE> applications. However, I do detest MS's methods of operation.

As do I.

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