Five Reasons It's Time to Switch to Windows 7 (Tomorrow is D-day for Windows XP SP2 users)

Played with Fortran on a small IBM 360 in high school, Apple II, CPM/86, AmigaDOS on an A1000, A2000, A2500, Win95, WinME,
Media Center Edition 2005, XP SP3, Win 7, Ubuntu, Xandros on EeePc, have been hands-on with various versions of Macs all the way back to the original. I'm just a user, not a programmer, would love to learn someday.

121 posted on 07/12/2010 5:21:53 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)

Now when Diablo III comes out I should be good to go!

If it ever comes out! grumble, grumble...

122 posted on 07/12/2010 5:46:37 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)

123 posted on 07/12/2010 5:57:41 PM PDT by VOA

To: ADemocratNoMore

Microsoft doesn’t provide the drivers; that is up to the hardware manufacturer. Microsoft provides the OS and the model and API for drivers for custom hardware, but it’s the responsibility of the hardware vendor to provide the driver.

124 posted on 07/12/2010 8:41:49 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)

To: Mr. Jeeves; Kieri

I heard they’re waiting for Duke Nukem Forever to release first, so they know what they have to beat...

125 posted on 07/12/2010 8:43:10 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)

To: tacticalogic

“Do you know about the Gutenberg Project?”

Yes. I have read several books from them. Also converted some to audiobooks using text to voice programs. I also like looking at books scanned in by Google Books. Librivox is a wonderful resource for public domain audiobooks. I can also get Netlibrary audiobooks and Overdrive audiobook and ebooks through my local libraries.

126 posted on 07/12/2010 10:18:27 PM PDT by exhaustguy

To: Nervous Tick

Apple is going to miss Vista......

127 posted on 07/13/2010 3:39:26 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)

Source: CNN

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Windows XP, which debuted nine years ago in 2001, will continue to be with us for yet another decade.

Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) announced late Monday that it would allow some Windows 7 customers to buy Windows XP "downgrade" licenses until January 2020. Those licenses allow customers to swap out the newer operating system and instead install a legal copy of the older one.

Microsoft initially planned to let Windows 7 customers downgrade to Windows XP only through April 2010, but that end-date was quickly extended until October 2011. Now, the company says it will extend the downgrade option through the entire Windows 7 sales cycle, which is scheduled to last until January 2020.

. . .

Though the software giant said its customers are moving quickly to adopt the newest Windows version, it acknowledged that some still want the option to downgrade. A full 74% of Microsoft's business customers are still using the outdated Windows XP, Windows marketing head Tami Reller said this week at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C.

Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/13/technology/windows_xp/i...

128 posted on 07/13/2010 7:24:07 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)

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