Nah....ditched XP for a Mac last year.
Why do I want to pay bucks JUST to change my operating system if my current operating system does what I want it to do?
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My main computer is still XP, and will stay that way for some time.
Vista simply does not run some of my older apps like MS Money 2002 Deluze, even though supposedly it can run in Win95/98 mode.
Baloney!
I have Vista x64 SP2 and it hasn’t been too much of an issue. The only issues I have had are with IE7 and IE8.
Easy answer. No.
7 does look to be significantly improved, some even saying it runs as fast as XP.
The release candidate is free to download and use for a year, and I am considering doing so. Just worried about screwing up the computer with Vista on it (wife’s...).
Never buy a MS OS until the 3rd SP.
Thinking about it. Haven’t tested the RC on any of my systems yet to make a decision. I’ve been scared to.
And I’m not spending any money on it until I can test it. Made that mistake with Vista.
If you are an XP user, has what you’ve seen of Windows 7 made you willing to ditch XP?
XP with SP 3 is the best system out there...I manage a LOT of computers...no problems...why fix it if it ain’t broken?
I have been running the Windows 7 RC since it was released and it is ok but it does not feel like home. I like XP better. 7 has a couple neet things but im not overly impressed as of yet.
I’m ready to ditch my ONE Vista box for Win 7, but all my XP boxes will remain XP boxes.
No. Windows 7 has DRM stuff that I won’t pay money for.
I’ll wait to hear how it goes — for six months or so.
I have heard some complaints...
Since 7 has a cumbersome upgrade from XP, does that also mean that the programs on XP will have difficulty running on 7?
Upgrading for the sake of upgrading just doesn’t appeal to me. And what I’ve read about 7, it doesn’t offer anything new and WOW! that I can’t live without.
I cringe at the thought of trying to get all my programs to work, if I migrate to 7.
If you’ve got a computer with XP keep it. If you buy a new one get it with Windows 7 when it comes out. If you have to buy right now get Vista but no less than 2 Gig memory. Simple enough?
easy ... No ... XP working fine for us on three machines.
I read an article about Vista recently. MS apparently tracked mouse-moves and keystrokes for a number of Vista users and found [greatly compressed here] that most users tried to get around most of the “features” of Vista, like the way it tries to arrange icons in the quick-start zone according to frequency of use. They were puzzled to see users open an app, then immediately close it to open another, over and over. Interviews showed that people clicked the last place where the app they wanted had been, then when the “wrong” one opened, closed it and went searching for where their app went.
One outcome of this was the decision to remove an “opt out for the classical look” in Office 2007, which again is context sensitive and tries to guess what you might be doing and put up options, rather than the old-fashioned, outdated and unhip menu bar with a tree hierarchy.
I went back to office 97, clinging bitterly to drop-down menus and tree architecture and without the very hip xml formats that none of my customers can decode.
not sure about Xp, but I ditched Vista on one of my home PC’s and am not looking back. Windows 7 crushes Vista.
What’s your recommendation super hotshot?
I have a 64bit machine 1 year old . . . using XP-P.