So I’ve had my new machine up and running with Windows XP for about 3 weeks now. All in all I’m pretty happy with it. I did have to run out and get more ram because with 256mb it was struggling, but in general this has been the smoothest OS transition ever for me and it contrasts nicely with the nightmare of OS X on the mac boxes. But one issue haunts me. Every time I print a document, the OS helpfully points out that the document failed to print and offers to troubleshoot the problem for me. The only problem seems to be the OS not actually knowing what’s going on, because the documents are printing fine and sitting in the printer tray waiting for me. So what’s the deal? Who knows, like I said, yet another stupid windows thing.