Microsoft Mum on Vista Plans After Windows 7 Launch

pcworld ^ | May 03, 2009 | Sumner Lemon

[JoeProBono]

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

When will SP2 be available for Windows 7? I consider any version of Windows, prior to SP2, to be Beta.

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<...an enterprise customer that purchases a PC with Windows 7 pre-installed is allowed to downgrade to Vista should they desire,

WTF?

[Chet 99]

Windows Vista is after me! Help!

[CedarDave]

tech list PING!

[JoeProBono]

[max americana]

> The continued availability of Windows XP during a transition period after Windows 7’s release will reassure users who have avoided upgrading to Windows Vista and may be wary of the new operating system.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/164128/windows_xp_will_still_be_available_after_windows_7_release.html?tk=loom_biz

Found this link right beside the thread article.

[JoeProBono]

[period end of story]

Alright.

I have XP Pro, and never used Vista: may have to pass on 7, too.

[period end of story]

VISTA: glad I missed ya.

[OldMissileer]

I just built all new computers for home and finally upgraded from Win2000 Pro to Win XP Pro 64 Bit.

I love the 64 Bit XP and will probably not move to version 7 unless they prove it is not a crawling POS and their DRM is not from the age of Stalin.

[packrat35]

It is actually much better than VISTA except for the DRM which is even worse.

[TChad]

The SP2 beta finally made Vista almost “comfy” for me. It fixed most of the worst bugs.

[AF_Blue]

From the PC World article:

"It's been a long time since we've had a version of Windows that will actually run better [than the previous version] on the hardware that most customers have," Nash said. - Mike Nash, corporate vice president of the Windows product management group at Microsoft

Thanks for the warning, Mike.

[dangerdoc]

bump

[ShadowAce]

[rarestia]

I LOVE CTRL+ALT+DEL. Unfortunately my megalomaniacal security group seems to think that this is unproductive material and blocks it.

That being said, I use Vista Ultimate x64 edition at home for gaming. My other machines, including my server, all run some flavor of Linux (Fedora 10 for laptop, Ubuntu for server). I really don’t mind Vista. It takes FOREVER to get it configured in the manner that it most comfortable to your use, but with 8 GB RAM, 2 160 GB SATA disks in a RAID1, 2 512 MB PCI-Express vid cards in SLI configuration, and a Core i7 processor behind it all, Vista runs like it’s supposed to(all 6’s on the experience meter).

Vista will become the next ME: dustbin material. But it’s MUCH more functional than ME ever was.

[Still Thinking]

It is actually much better than VISTA except for the DRM which is even worse.

DRM is why I won't buy Vista. Not that I want to steal content, but if they want me to pay for a product, it needs to be developed to meet my interests AND NO ONE ELSE'S. And then there's the hardware theft. All those hard drive sectors, bytes of RAM, and CPU cycles, the hardware for which and the power to run which I PAID FOR!!! and which they're willing to sacrifice for the benefit of third parties not a part of the transaction to buy the software. They shouldn't expect to steal from me, call it "Rights Management", as if my rights needed managing, and still expect me to line up pay them for it.

[antiRepublicrat]

Don’t hold back. Tell us how you really feel about DRM.

[GreatDaggar]