Posted on 01/08/2009 6:03:39 AM PST by Red Badger
Me, too. Heck, I still have a Win 98 SE machine doing grunt work every day. I am in no rush to move 'up' to something I do not need to get the job done.
If all anyone does is check their email, surf the net, and run a few applications like word processing there's no reason to upgrade to Windows 7 anytime soon.
That may be, but a ZDNet blog is certainly not the place to establish proof of it.
ZD publishers have been Microsoft boot-lickers for as long as I can remember. I'd guess that it was MS themselves who created your chart, if history is any guide.
Dell always adds bloatware to their PC's (yes, I used to do tech support for them too).
As for MS, the latest IE already has Live Search integrated as the default engine. Firefox 3 installed with Google Search as the default but you can add Live with a couple of clicks.
Outlook Express was installed with XP and is called Windows Mail in Vista. (XP users: just click start and type "msimn" in the run box - same for Vista) If the new Win7 email app is something new and integrated into the browser like old Netscape Navigator, I'll pass! (though I didn't see it when on a Win7 box before Christmas)
That's what this is. It's not any promised re-write, it's just a Vista upgrade. I have heard some positive comments about performance though.
And, with $20 more RAM, smokes XP like a cheap cigar.
That's the first I've heard of it, and I've been using Leopard for over a year. Wiki doesn't mention it in its criticism section of Leopard's entry which is pretty short and mild unlike say this OS LOLOLOL
All you have to do is "Google it."
Even if it were true that they were near a release, that would just signal the begin of the supermassive debugging project by early adopters of 7.
Can you or anyone tell me if
OFFICE 2007
WORKS with XP-P 64 BIT?
Am thinking of changing when my computer comes back from being repaired/overhauled.
imho,
Microslop is part of the ruling global oligarchy.
They have as much info in their scattered massive data bases on everyone in the modern world they have the least bit of interest in . . . and there’s likely little to nothing to be done about it . . . apart from God’s care and protection to those who walk with Him . . .
that . . . and the massive amount of data they’d have to search through . . . though those functions have been updated for a long time.
I've run Vista 32 and 64 bit on two seperate machines with no problems (that I haven't caused myself)
Then I don't want it. It's not that I want to pirate media or that I do so now. It's just that if a company wants to sell me a product , 100.000% of that product had better be designed to serve my interests, and 0.000% designed to serve the interests of a contractually uninvolved third party.
Further I view every single CPU cycle and every single byte of RAM and EVERY had disk sector as my personal property, since I paid for them and am paying for the electricity to operate them. Therefore using one cycle, byte, sector, etc. to protect someone else from ME is theft.
Thanks for your helpful info.
Do you know if XP 64 BIT
will run OFFICE 2007 OK?
And would it be worth the investment? Or would you say ump to WIN 7?
Thanks for your helpful info.
Do you know if XP 64 BIT
will run OFFICE 2007 OK?
Most people don't keep computers more than five or six years. It makes no sense to upgrade the OS version on an old computer.
it is absolutely seamless.I'm typing this on a six year old iMac
running the most current OS X (10.5.6)
But Vista looks better than XP, which I haven't seen on the same hardware configuration. Yes, Vista can certainly be made to run "acceptably" and even "very well" but from what I've seen it takes more hardware than XP takes to get to the same performance level. Remember all the battles on FR where people were saying Vista sucked on the same machines that ran XP very well, and the Vista supporters would say "Yes, but if you put in 3-4GB it works just fine"? Something is rotten with those charts.
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