I finally got a laptop and desktop with Win7.
I still miss XP.
The major advantage I find in Win7 is the expanded memory capability. I also find several very, extremely irritating features in Win7: ribbon menus, jumping selections in file explorer, etc. They seem to be more for show than for productivity.
From what I have read, Win8 may have even more irritating feature changes and omissions. Many commentaries are calling it the new vista.
I have had every version of TRS-DOS starting from the Model 1, every version of MS-DOS and Windows that Microsoft has put out. XP was advanced for the time of its release. It was easy to navigate around in and to fix problems in. Vista sucks only because (after the first service pack) it worked well but didn’t do much that couldn’t be done in XP with add-ons. I do like 7 because of the reliability, I seldom restart my machine but about once a month or so I restart just make sure there aren’t an cobwebs growing. It is my understanding that 7 is much more secure than XP. I do like all the eye candy in 7 and especially the ease of control of multiple monitors. I do like the way 7 (64) can handle so much memory and multiple processors.
I do not like the way that 7 abandons so much old software. Us old people have a lot of old stuff that we have gotten used to and don’t want to change. I still like my Office 97 very much thank you, don’t need no stupid ribbon.
A friend who supports computer users has 8 up and has demoed it to me a few times, there is a lot to like. It is 7 if that is what you want it to be looks wise or you can have the other interface the new “8” version of windows, so far I don’t care for that but if I had a Windows 8 touchscreen tablet I might think differently about it. The most interesting thing is that nearly all the tiles can be live, actually small versions of the program running so that you can have an eye on what is happening on your machine all the time, or you can easily flip back to the regular 7 style interface, it is easy to go back and forth on the fly.
People rail on MS but they have done a lot of fascinating stuff a lot cheaper than the other guys, Apple, just wish they were as cheap as Linux.
I hated Vista; I was happy with XP, but the new computers didn’t come with it; 7’s OK.
I hated Vista; I was happy with XP, but the new computers didn’t come with it; 7’s OK.
I bought a new Dell computer with Win7 about 6 months ago and I absolutely HATE Windows 7. I have many thousands of graphics and Win7 has them scattered everywhere, default user, administrator user, owner user, etc, they even turn up in Windows Media Player. I also hate Libraries! My graphics programs no longer open to the correct location.
My old computer had XP and everything was in “My Favorites” and easy to find. I have all my XP installation discs and wish I could just have it installed in this computer but I’d lose getting updates from Microsoft. Win7 won’t even allow installation of my favorite graphics program, Picture It. I’ve really been bummed out about it all.
After Win7 I’d be scared to download Win8......