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Subject: Re: Tiger(s) and ME

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 07:49:33 01/11/01

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On January 11, 2001 at 00:38:00, Pete Galati wrote:

>On January 10, 2001 at 21:26:42, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>
>>I have had very nice e-mail discussions with Christophe regarding crashes I have
>>had while running Tigers(s) on ME. Christophe has informed me that he knows of
>>no issues with Tiger and the ME platform.
>>
>>That being the case then I would like to hear from others using ME. I can not
>>fault the Computer and yet The program has been given a clean bill of health.
>>
>>I had a issue with ME and Fritz6 that was resolved very promptly from T-note on
>>ChessBase and now Fritz6 run very clean.
>>I want to get to the bottom of it (I will) but I need help, please
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Wayne
>
>This new computer came with Windows ME installed on it, and I have not had any
>conflicts with any Chess programs yet.  Winboard runs just fine, same with
>Junior6, and I didn't have to use Steve's T-notes fix.  So far all of my
>Winboard engines have worked without conflict, but admitedly there aren't many
>yet (I plan to keep it that way).  So, I don't have Tiger, but there are no
>Chess program problems that I know of.
>
>BUT, there's no question in my mind that this is the worst OS that MS has ever
>put out.  It's bloatware to an extreme, and it doesn't even run some of their
>OWN programs that were designed for Windows 98 but came loaded on the computer.
>It's more crap fromMicrosoft that they released at least a year before they had
>a ready product.
>
>If you got Windows98 and you're thinking of upgrading to Windows ME, it's a very
>bad idea IMO.
>
>Pete

So which is the best windows version available now?
S.Taylor



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