Posted on 07/23/2010 2:20:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Obviously, you don't work in IT or, if you do, you work for a company using apps that work on 7.
There are many companies running proprietary programs that didn't work on Vista and are interminably slow on the Win 7 Virtual Machine. Hence, Dell and other large PC vendors offer downgrades to XP: they're filling a large niche of companies that want/need new hardware but can't use 7. At my company, we build our own boxes so I've been having to scrounge for XP OEM 3 and 10-packs.
7 is the best PC OS I've ever seen...it rocks. But we can't use it.
Learn what you're talking about before calling people with valid information "Applebots/open source crazies"
It was already conceded that home users most likely stick with Win 7.
However as you can read here downgrade rights to XP were extended again past Win 7 SP1. Not every business is ready to transition to Win 7 just because you believe it's the best thing since sliced bread.
Win2K?
You are kidding right?
Say..tell me...how old is Win2K?
While you are about it, why don't you tell me how many Win2K computers were actually in use when Win 7 was launched?
As a matter of fact, there were so few Win2K computers out there, it docent even appear in the Netapp’s market share figures at all.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10
If there's a sudden rise in license sales that could be part of the reason.
No. Just no.
There was no “sudden” rise in license sales. Win 7 has been a consistently super high selling OS for 9 months now. Where do you get off coming up with this stuff?
Ever heard of Win 7 XP mode?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
Ever read what I wrote?
Except for Freecell I'm not much of a gamer. I do run across posters who love Windows 7 because they say it's great for that. But I never could see why games wouldn't run on Win2k, in fact I'd think they'd do pretty good given its low resource demands.
This has happened in some cases with all progressive operating systems. If a proprietary software won't keep up with the times, they're soon history. Do you remember when Novell had 80% of the NOS market and insisted on the IPX/SPX protocol when TCP/IP was what was coming? Novell now runs TCP/IP but it was too late. They now have about 15-20% of the network operating systems market. It's expensive to keep up with a new OS, but if you don't, you'll eventually lose out. It's just business. To answer your next question, yes I have the 64 bit.
I'd suggest avoiding that particular claim, you're raining on your own parade.
Joe is apparently only fixated on the home users. For him businesses, who are really Microsoft's main customers don't fit into his equation.
Exactly...anything that could cope nicely with the restriction on AGP, which was anything older, and anything intentionally designed not to be too terribly cutting edge, ran like a dream. I did stuff as recent as WoW on it, and each of the new Touhou releases in turn.
That’s what I’m running on a P4 is an AGP ATI Radeon 4670. I understand for gamers it’s a wonderful card.
Fortunately I was able to backup my data with a utility program, and 7 loaded up fine, although it required a reformat of my HD.
The one thing I do notice about my notebook now is that the screen seems a little fuzzy. It didn't recognize the video card, and has loaded a general driver. Guess I'll have to figure out how to fix that.
Windows 7 has made me forget about Vista...and about buying a Mac.
Alright, don't be a tech snob. You and I both know that Microsoft stopped supporting Win2K in 2007. Reaganwuzthebest has legitimate concerns that MS is bullying him to buy more software. In this case, though, he's wrong. Micrsoft has not withdrawn any support or patches to XP or Vista recently. They still support both. I agree with you, Windows7 is very, very good.
This is just where you are wrong.
Overwhelmingly, initial sales of Win 7 were have been to home users and consumers. Businesses have taken longer than consumers to upgade.
How so?
Vista shattered all operating system sales records when it was launched, only for Win 7 to shatter Vista's sales records. That's the way it's supposed to be.
I went from years with W/.9x to Vista (Dell E520), and the former was much quicker on a much older PC (650mhz cpu; 320mb ram vs 3.2ghz cpu; 3gb ram) on basic tasks (opening folders, navigating, launching word pad, etc ) than Vista, but then the Lord gave us a Sony with XP which is quicker, and does about all Vista will do.
What i would like Windows to do is be more like Firefox (arrange taskbar buttons, change their color individually, save sessions, etc.).
I use AutoHotKey to launch many things together or individually by just 2 or more keys.
Just a few services you can also run in the run command.
appwiz.cpl
dxdiag
control printers
control.exe
services.msc
mmsys.cpl
rstrui.exe
powercfg.cpl
ncpa.cpl
devmgmt.msc
diskmgmt.msc
eventvwr.msc
There are little apps for altering the resolution but they can be tricky and may not support your adapter.
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