It's official: Windows 7 is a hit, and XP is finally in decline

zdnet. ^ | August 18, 2010 | Ed Bott

[JoeProBono]

[Sacajaweau]

Except I had to upgrade from home to professional to run some of my old programs...another 100 bucks...

[mowowie]

I upgraded the week it came out.
I installed it on a fast SSD drive.
I’m very happy with it.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I am so annoyed. I have a software vendor who has failed to make their software compatible with 7 so I’m stuck scrounging copies of XP for my AD domain.

[SERKIT]

No drivers for a current-production HP printer, no drivers for a current-vintage flatbed scanner, many programs do not run...yeah it’s a HIT alright....hit me in the jewels and wallet in one smack.

[Michael Barnes]

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[Michael Barnes]

yeah it’s a HIT alright....hit me in the jewels and wallet in one smack.

bwahaha....that was funny man; sorry for your pain however..

[Jack Deth]

I had Windows Vista pre-installed on my last Desktop and I absolutely despised it! Could not get along with Norton 360. Did not work and play well with either Internet Explorer or Firefox.

My latest Compaq comes with Windows 7 and it works like a champ. Would recommend it to anyone!

Jack.

[hoagy62]

Upgraded from Vista to Win7 Home Premium about 8 months ago. I have NEVER had it crash, and all my devices and programs run well with it. I bought this comp pre-loaded with Vista and it works even better with the new OS!

Got it at the ‘employee discount’ price from a friend of mine who works at Microsoft and goes to our church. Perfectly alright as long as I don’t try to re-sell or pirate it.

[SgtHooper]

That’s HP’s fault. I have been so disgusted with HP and their lack of support in keeping up with the drivers—printers, in particular—over the last 5-8 years, that I threaten them that I will buy Brother (which are good, btw)or competing products when they try nail me with a charge for tech support for failed products, and they cave. I mean printers, they built a great reputation years ago for having the best printers, but no mas. Jus sayin...

[gov_bean_ counter]

Great timing folks. Upgrading child of beancounters laptop. College Jr. Looking at an HP Pavilion with the Windows 7 Professional operating system. Office 07 or Office 10? Need help.
4GB memory 320GB hard drive.

I've used AVG virus protection the last couple of years. No issues. Would appreciate opinions.

Also will look at a MAC.

In either case will get a fed gov employees discount.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Funny, I don’t see Windows 7 on my computer. XP still there and quite happy with it.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

When I got stuck with Vista I had to dump an almost new printer and buy a new one, then I found that my old Garmin GPS doesn't get along with Vista.

I've already determined that I can't use either one with Windows 7.

There is no way I can keep up!

I liked XP, I had no problems with it.

[NineOmega]

Which programs are you having trouble with?

[ottbmare]

Running since October 22, 2009 at about 11 a.m., one hour after it was released. ZERO crashes since.

[FrankR]

I had a G85 officejet for about 10 years, it wasn't too bad, it did all the things I needed (except 2-sided printing). But about a year ago it started printing color jobs with lines through them occasionally.

However, my biggest beef with it was the COST OF INK. It used the HP45 and HP78 (easy to remember for those of us who remember record players and vinyl records) and together it was over $50 for ink...too much.

Also, the G85 is huge...so I bought me a Lexmark Prevail Pro 705, and I have been perfectly happy with it. It prints faster, does double-side, and it's also a scanner, fax, and copier...a little over $100. It uses multiple ink cartridges, and I haven't used it enough to have to change them yet, so the jury is still out on ink costs...hopefully it will be a lot less.

[SERKIT]

Music score editing program, software that came with HP printer for the scan function (multi-function printer), CD/DVD label print option, ACER scanner driver, others. Found the same thing from HP that someone else mentioned - they want to charge ME to fix THEIR problems with Windows 7. They know full well some of their current-production stuff does not work on Windows 7 as a “known bug”. I also continue to have issues with PCTOOLS whereby the Windows Firewall fights with the PCTOOLS firewall even though the Windows firewall is shut off. Windows constantly reports that I do not have an Anti-Virus, asks me if I want to turn on PCTOOLS (which is running), then can’t “start” it.

[SERKIT]

Had the same issues with Outlook Express (not available on Windows 7) which I used to coordinate 3 email accounts flawlessly. Settled on Thunderbird since the Windows 7 replacement for Outlook Express sucked.

[catnipman]

Under no circumstance buy an HP laptop. Statistically they are the absolute worst in terms of reliability.

At this time, you’d be better off with one of Toshiba’s current laptop models.