About that "unless your stuck with it don't upgrade for six months yet"
Here is pcworld's assessment:
"What do all these pitfalls add up to? A version of Windows that is starting to look a lot like previous ones, upgradewise. Interface glitches, incompatible applications, missing drivers, shutdown problems, crashing--these classic upgrade snafus have plagued just about every version of Windows that Microsoft has produced.
And just as with previous versions, Microsoft has indicated that a follow-on to Windows XP is in the works. The ETA: no later than 2003."
The full five pages of application incompatibilities, bugs, and glitches are here:
<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,68796,00.asp" target="_blank">http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,68796,00.asp</a>
One place to look for XP answers is in a dedicated newsgroup. Try
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/default.asp" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/default.asp</a>
to find links to several different specific newsgroups. For example, for games look at
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.games
Remember that these are user newsgroups. Not all the information will be expert although the newsgroups I hang out in (not Windows groups) pride themselves on getting things right in the end.