Posted on 10/21/2009 11:43:38 AM PDT by bcsco
Yes.
I am a pretty cautious citizen by nature, and I started using win 7 from when it was beta, before it even went to RC1. I just kept installing newer versions of Win 7 over the older versions, but I wasn’t quite ready then to trust all my apps and data to a beta operating system. But right now, I use Win 7 99% of the time, so I hardy ever use Vista.
The Vista takes up so litle space on my hard drive, that I might just leave it there and just stop using it. The boot.ini has Win 7 listed first anyway, so the only inconvenience is hitting “enter” to avoid a 25 second wait, while booting up.
The initial issues with Vista have been fixed with SP 1 and SP 2, which are both totally free.
Win 7 is has enough improvements and enhancements (outside the service packs) to qualify as a new version of Windows, and $30-$50 for a new version of Windows sounds pretty cheap to me.
Well, as long as the space stamp is minor, you should be good to go. For those with space issues, the upgrade will be important.
I’m not biting. I’m happy with XP (I still have Windows 2000 on an older Dell that originally came with Millenium). Heck, I still use Office 2000. But I have friends who have Vista and XP systems, and I’m looking at what their needs will likely be.
I have XP on another HP laptop that I bought in 2006. Works fine, but then I hardly use it, since I got this new one in 2008, so I am not going to upgrade the old one.
My HP laptop’s about 4 years old. I figure I’ll be in the market a couple years from now (if not sooner...). I’m glad to see Windows 7 come out from that standpoint if no other. I had no intention of buying a Vista machine, for whatever reason. And other operating systems, as good as they may be, don’t provide solutions for my simple yet specific needs.
Something I have been wondering..does Dreamscene work on any of the betas or RC that Microsoft has released? And if it does, is it just a distraction or do you find it actually a worthwhile add-on? I looked at some of them on youtube and was quite surprised but the complexity of some of them. Orbiting planets, matrix code, left4dead, etc. Seems like it would be a resource hog.
Thanks! I didn’t know XP was still available. I wish they would keep supporting it for a long time. :)
My wife has had no interest in computing. Period. Oh, occasionally she’ll ask to use my laptop to print a free craft pattern or such, but that’s it.
I bought the PC for her because she’s taken on managing a store much larger than the one she had, and I felt she needed the technological advantage a PC can bring. Up until the day it arrived (she had the day off) she had little interest, saying “whatever” when I told her it would take me awhile to get it running and wired into our home network.
But that evening after dinner, she put it on her lap, located CBS and watched the NCIS episode we missed a couple days previously. She checked her email and said “Hey, I kinda like this”. Now, every night, she’s checking her email and ‘surfing’...though just a little while. I have to smile over it all.
I’ve put OpenOffice, Firefox & Thunderbird on the PC, and have given her an old Palm Tungsten T2 for syncing her schedule. The interest is still there. Huh. Never would have thought...
I’m still running XP, but I was all set to get the $30 Windows 7 (offered if you have a .edu email address), but apparently, it’s only those upgrading from Vista. Bummer....
Full version OEM’s: http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=368&name=Operating-Systems
Luvin' both of 'em, but Win7 is a HUGE improvement over Vista. Much more so than Snow over Leopard.
From what I can tell, this deal is ONLY if you have a Vista installation disk (for clean install) or if upgrading a Vista already on the hard drive. Is this right, or can you use it to upgrade from XP?
The $150 family pack deal for 3 Windows 7 lisences(works out at $50 each), can be bought by anyone.
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Premium-Upgrade-Family/dp/B002MV2MG0/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1256173726&sr=8-9
“From what I can tell, this deal is ONLY if you have a Vista installation disk (for clean install) or if upgrading a Vista already on the hard drive. Is this right, or can you use it to upgrade from XP?”
# 1. Upgrading from Vista to Win 7 is pretty straightforward. You can do an “in-place” upgrade(it wil keep all your files and apps) as long you install the same version of Windows 7 as you have of Vista.
Windows Vista Home premium ———> Windows 7 Home Premium.
Windows Vista Business ———> Windows 7 Professional
Windows Vista Ultimate ——> Windows 7 Ultimate.
Any other upgrade, like Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional, will require a clean install.
# 2. If you have XP, you can't upgrade directly to Windows 7. You are going to have to back up all your files, then do a clean install (custom install), then re-install your apps. That clean install will use your Windows 7 “upgrade” disk.
You will first need to test your XP computer to see if it can run Win 7, using the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1b544e90-7659-4bd9-9e51-2497c146af15
Of course you can upgrade XP to Vista then to Windows 7, but why would anyone do that?
I guess my main question is: can I install Windows 7 upgrade using an XP installation disc as the verification that I have Windows? (when you install an upgrade disc, it asks you to put in the previous OS disc)
BTW, I already have the link to buy it; the health system I work for has a .edu email domain.
Yes.
That’s great. Is there a point to all that?
Are you under the impression that Apple is owned and managed by a bunch of conservatives?
Cool thanks for the article. This is something I have been pondering for a couple of my machines.
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