
The story of how a BeOS refugee (and not just everyone, but the author of the '
BeOS Bible' book) lost faith in the future of computing, resigned himself to Windows but found himself bored silly, tore out half his hair at the helm of a Linux box, then rediscovered the joy of computing in MacOSX. Scot Hacker will describe his personal adventures with today's operating systems after he was set out to find an alternative to his beloved (but with no apparent future) BeOS.
Update: Make sure you read the second part of the article, a rebutal, found
here.
CD Burning under XP is the same as every other Windows - you can still use any old tool you used before, or you can burn any CD under the XP tools.
I will note, however, that my XP "natively" burned CD are not as high in quality as CDs burned under Nero or under OS X in comparison. The MP3 to CD converter is buggy under XP and creates a lot of skips and pops in the final CD.