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#14: That’s why I said don’t upgrade until SP2, XP was a dog until then, Vista… is still a dog and Win7 isn’t going to be any better until then either. Microsoft is famous for making a ton of improvements to a system, then screwing it all up to the point where the improvements aren’t worth the hassles.
Win7 gets on my machines in a year or so. Maybe. It won’t be a second before their SP2 though.
Microsoft has a HUGE installed base of people who skipped Vista and stayed with XP. I tried to switch but 6 system restores in 4 months taught me the folly of that.
All of this installed base gets the finger. There is no real upgrade path. Back up your data, wipe your hard drive, do a clean install, move your data back, reinstall all your apps from the original media, reinstall all the updates to your apps that came down after the original media. . . .
This is bullshit.
The fact that there is a path from XP to Vista without a clean install and a path from Vista to 7 without a clean install proves by demonstration that an upgrade path from XP to 7 exists. But you can’t have it. Why? Petulance over the rejection of Vista? That’s the only thing I can think of.
For me, this means reinstalling literally hundreds of apps. I use a lot of stuff. this will be months of work. And frankly, I’m not wasting that much time on this project any time soon. Microsoft can shove that idea where the sun don’t shine. I don’t have that much time to piss away on a project that, in a very real sense, only brings me at the end right back to the state I was in at the beginning.
Maybe it will have a better grammar checker for Uncle Dave.
“Here ARE some reasons to switch.”
Other than not giving me direct control of my files I suppose W7 is OK. If it comes on the new hardware when I get new hardware I’ll get W7.
I don’t see a single reason to buy a new OS to install on my old hardware.
I’d love to need to get a quad core with lots of ram but I don’t need that either.
ya, ya ya…
WAIT for the NEW games that WONT WORK on XP..
WONT work unless you have DirectX10-11..
Wait for it..
‘WAIT for the NEW games that WONT WORK on XP’
Been waiting…
new games? I’m still waiting for that one game that really uses DX 10, even though DX 9.0x games are running just fine.
Heck, I’m still debating upgrading to XP!
All my machines are already running Vista, so I’m not in a hurry to push the upgrade on most of them. Vista already has all the security benefits, and Vista has been faster than XP on most hardware since before SP1 came out.
There are a few things that 7 is awesome for, low end machines, some older chipsets, and HTPC’s. 7 seems to be really well optimized for the Intel 945 chipset (a common platform for early Core 2 notebooks and all of the Atom based netbooks). My Sony Vaio SZ runs better with 7 than it ever did with XP or Vista.
On the HTPC front, Vista Media Center was great, and 7 media center continues to improve on it. I have a Hauppauge PVR 2250 in my HTPC. It has two combo analog/digital tuners built in. With VMC I had to choose between using the analog tuners to record basic cable or the digital tuners to record unencrypted clear QAM channels (or over the air digital, but I don’t have an antenna). 7 Media Center can use both, and the digital clear QAM channels show up in the guide along with the regular cable channels. Cool stuff.
I’m still using Vista on my main desktop for the time being, but I’ll be upgrading before too long. I like the new taskbar and the performance improvements nice (though they’re pretty minor).
#40
Pedro..
I LOVE it that MS decided to extend updates for XP, after everyone DUMPED on Vista.