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PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The truth remains to be seen. Preliminary reports indicate a positive response.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

XP was one that MS got right, as far as them getting this one right, I'm still waiting for when the squadron of pigs comes in for a landing before I buy.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

XP actually wasn't so bad. And 2000 was great. It only crashed on me three times in five years, and that was because of really crappy hardware.

On the other hand, it seems that 98 and Vista surely marred their reputation for good. Not to mention their aggressive and underhanded tactics.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm about to start using it soon.

It shall be good

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Until i hear a full description not only how much faster it is, i hold my judgment.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been running Linux for years, and I see no reason to change that.

My wife's computer has Vista, and she hasn't had any major complaints. OTOH, when I've had to do maintenance and set-up tasks, it has been an absolutely, utterly, horrendous PITA.

Macro$loth has completely reconfigured the menus, and many of the tasks and options I use the most are buried multiple layers deep in the menus, if you can find them at all. One was, iirc, eight layers deep in the menus. Another seems to have been completely removed.

Is there any way to get rid of all the maddening and frustrating eye candy and get some simple, functional control panels back?

From what I've read about Win7, I can see no reason, at least for me, to get it.

The only reason I'd even think about it is that I use two programs (rarely, but I do use them) that do not come in any other flavor.

I keep hoping that WinE will be able to run those programs. It hasn't managed to yet, but I keep hoping.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looking forward to it.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll probably wait, like usual, for the first service pack so that I know that they've at least got Most of the bugs worked out.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seabhacson wrote:
I'll probably wait, like usual, for the first service pack so that I know that they've at least got Most of the bugs worked out.

You do realize that windows 7 IS a service pack on vista. Under the hood windows 7 is vista, they just tried to fix some of the bugs.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been running Windows 7 RC, and while I haven't really pushed it, so far it's been fine for me. A little faster than Vista maybe, not much. Still takes a long time to load everything when it gets to the desktop. So far compatible with all my stuff.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yea, that's one of the main problems I run into with Vista is that a lot of the programs *cough*games*cough* that I like to run just don't work with Vista.

And I miss my Starfleet Command Orion Pirates... Sad

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wait one min is this a new operating system for Window>? For if it is there numbering is off. Windows 3.5, 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista WOW urm rack that up 9 total!!!!! so what there ramaking there old Xp? and just calling it 7?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Windows 3.5? Do you mean 3.0? Never saw 3.5 then there was3.1, 3.11 & 3.11 for work groups. There was the original NT then NT4 plus the others you mentioned.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mike Regan wrote:
The one thing I will want to know is for those who were not Vista and still XP or earlier, will all their stuff work? I heard a lot of complaints that Vista would not allow a good deal of existing hardware to function. The users had to buy new "Vista Compatible" replacements because no new drivers existed.


Here's what I was able to find out real quick by checking Microsoft's own website on Windows 7: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/windows-xp-mode.aspx
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Vallus wrote:
Mike Regan wrote:
The one thing I will want to know is for those who were not Vista and still XP or earlier, will all their stuff work? I heard a lot of complaints that Vista would not allow a good deal of existing hardware to function. The users had to buy new "Vista Compatible" replacements because no new drivers existed.


Here's what I was able to find out real quick by checking Microsoft's own website on Windows 7: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/windows-xp-mode.aspx


Sounds like a BIG memory hog.
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