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Windows 7
tinkerer:
I waited until the computer with 98 died and then bought one with XP Pro and have been happy with it. I will decide on 7 when it has been proven or this one dies. I still use Office 97 and it makes people with 08 configure so I can view their attachments. I guess I will need to upgrade that one day.
mklotz:
--- Quote ---Why did they call it 7 anyway?
--- End quote ---
Because that's how many deadly sins there are?
shred:
Supposedly it's the 7th major release of Windows. Theres a theory in the industry called "every other one sucks", which holds true for Microsoft desktop Windows OS'es
Win 7 - good
Vista - Bleccch
Win XP - good
Win ME - :bugeye:
Win 98 - OK
.. and so on.
If you get a choice between Vista and 7, go for 7. If you have Vista and are sick of it, look hard at 7 if you can get it for a good price. If you've got Win XP and are happy with it, stay there.
I've got PC's with pretty much everything on them, including Win 7, Vista, XP, 2000, 98, ME, Linux and right on through Amiga OS and Atari TOS...
I use Linux (server), Win 7 (notebook/tablet-- got off Vista ASAP) and XP (desktop and CNC PC)
Darren:
Thanks Shred, maybe you have changed my mind :scratch:
Certainly sick of Vista and long for XP once again ..... be interesting to see how John gets on with 7?
Stefan Pynappels:
I'm coming to this discussion from a background of using and configuring desktops and servers for work.
When I got a new laptop (Toshiba Tablet PC) for work, I did not even boot into the installed Vista OS, I immediately booted up the XP Downgrade disk.
XP has been a solid platform and we still recommend to our clients they use XP machines where possible. We can work with Vista machines, but it doubles our installation time depending on which features of our software they use. I will never install Vista on any computer I own.
I have had several release candidates of Windows 7 installed on different pieces of hardware, and it was already more stable and compatible in Beta than Vista has been in my experience. I'm not saying it is perfect, and I will not recommend it for production systems at least until the SP1 release, but it is already better than Vista, and that is not hearsay, it is from personal experience.
Regarding Linux being a joke, I disagree. For 70% of the population who use computers only for surfing the web, email and word processing, with a little multimedia watching, a recent Linux Distro such as Ubuntu or Linux Mint is as much as they will ever need. And in a lot of instances, they would hardly notice the difference between this distro and Windows. It's not for everyone, but neither is it a joke. And for servers, especially webservers, it is unequalled. Ask Brass_Machine what he is considering using after some of the recent difficulties on this site........
All IMHO of course. :thumbup:
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