Windows 7

[Niclo Iste]

Thanks for the clarification slgrieb I wasn't thinking outside the box I was just trying to figure the best way to do an install without relying on it building off of the old xp or vista kernel for myself but realizing that now I can always work with the vista installation on my main system.

[Kodiak]

Darn that means I would have to install my old win 2000 before I did an upgrade of win 7 then.

I think it would be worth $50 though.

[slgrieb]

Darn that means I would have to install my old win 2000 before I did an upgrade of win 7 then.

I think it would be worth $50 though.

Currently, MS says that you can use Win7 Upgrade Edition if you run W2K or XP, but you will need to back up your data and do a clean install, then re-install all your software. You can only do a direct upgrade over Vista. Frankly, this is a better deal than I expected MS to offer

[NooNoo]

Pretty much the same codebase and they want business off 2k as it is feeling it's age.

[slgrieb]

I for one really look forward to the day when I can stop supporting W2K. I've come to dislike all the older Windows interfaces quite a bit; even XP compared to Vista and Win7. I have some clients still running mixed W2K and XP machines and doing the Interface Shuffle makes me a little nuts .

Given Microsoft's Vista license restrictions, which goes hand in hand with their anti-piracy stance, I'm pleasantly surprised by the Win7 upgrade policy. It's been a while since MS offered an upgrade package for any of their products that has been desirable and cheap.

[NooNoo]

I just installed Win7 on an HP laptop with 512mb ram which has 64mb allocated to the video (2.6 Celeron processor). It runs really well! If you turn off all the fancy video stuff, it runs just as fast as it did on XP

[BOB IROC]

Travistee, I'm sorry, but I just find myself mystified that some people are so attached to XP. Vista does offer some really significant improvements over XP. Native DVD burning, greatly improved multitasking and memory management, an Event Viewer on steroids, much better security, better desktop search, and improved program management, are just a few of the changes.

Just what are you running in Compatibility Mode? Almost any software that conforms to Microsoft's programming guidelines for XP runs fine under Vista. My Vista and W7 machines run pretty much any game that XP runs just fine. Much the same story for business software.

Win7 is mostly Vista, but it does offers some nice improvements. I still think it tends to be over-hyped, but my Win7 Beta still runs better than Vista SP1, and I can't imagine going back to XP anymore than I'd want to revert to Windows 2000 Professional or Windows 98.

Googling the topic shows that there are 425,000 hits for Vista Sucks versus 3,360,000 hits for XP Sucks. If you take a few minutes to look at the links, I think the pattern is pretty obvious. Many people just can't handle change. My advice; get used to it. Change is certain and inevitable.

Thats it pretty much in a nut shell isn't.. people look at a new OS or version of software and instantly form an opinion. 90% of the Vista Sucks for "X" reason can be proven false. I have and only have had 1 issue with Vista. It likes RAM. I solved that problem by getting a good deal on 2GB of Ram for $20 and it runs smooth as silk. Having 4GB on all my computers and Running Vista I have not had nearly as many stability problems as I did with Past OSes. It runs good with 2GB of ram but when you open a few memory intensive programs at once it will choke a bit. Windows 7 improved on that and the way I see it is it took all the good points of Vista and made them better. Just like XP did to 2000. 2000's major drawback was compatibility with consumer programs. XP fixed most of that and added new features over the Win9x versions.