shit…
I have been with Windows XP since i moved to it from Win98SE right after XP SP2.
I will eventually moved to 7, but not yet, my computer would choke and die on 7, sadly. Hardware isnt expensive, but when you are barely making ends meat, the price is just too steep.
My tool isnt rusted or broken, its a venerable old workhorse that causes me no problems. I know how to use it, I know how to hack it to pieces and make it do what I want. I know how to fix it.
that is far more important than having the most up to date crap they throw at you.
“I know there have been some rumors going around about a “family pack” for Windows 7. We have heard a lot of feedback from beta testers and enthusiasts over the last 3 years that we need a better solution for homes with multiple PCs. I’m happy to confirm that we will indeed be offering a family pack of Windows 7 Home Premium (in select markets) which will allow installation on up to 3 PCs. As I’ve said before, stay tuned to our blog for more information on this and any other potential offers.”
I haven’t tried Windows 7 yet, so I’ll withhold my judgment about whether or not it’s better. However, experience with past Microsoft Windows releases has proven to me that they have a knack for taking any advance in hardware efficiency and speed over the years and nullifying it. I hope that Windows 7 really is a performance-tuned, bug fixed, usability-enhanced version of Vista. If so, I’ll probably like it. If not, I’ll stick with XP.
Sorry Jeff, give me another 5 years. I tend to buy a computer every 6 years, and bought one last year with XP. That’ll coincide with the end of extended XP support in 2014. Whether I am ready to buy a new computer at that point or not, XP will have to be deleted from my lappy.
I avoided Vista because of the cluster I have dealt with keeping my girlfriend’s Vista machine marginally working. I’m not about to spend $200 or more to upgrade my backup operating system. I might spend the $30 most OEMs spend for new licenses though. Doubt Microsoft will offer a $30 upgrade program from XP.
I will fight my hardest to remain on XP as long as humanly possible to spite this article. It’ll only be more satisfying to upgrade when I finally do, anyway - more things to explore, more new features, etc. Windows 8, here I come!
Well, I bought an Acer 751 netbook after the free upgrade offer from Vista to 7. Unfortunately, it came with Vista Basic.
I bought the netbook after the free upgrade date (Aug 26th?) but I can’t get this ‘service pack’ for free, not eligible
In the mean time, the netbook runs well with Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook remix booting from an SDHC card. It has problems, but I have a couple of Windows apps I would like to continue using.
I think you’re right; this absolutely is a service pack. I’m reminded of your “Oh, You Wanted “Awesome” Edition” post; at this point I would settle for a “usable” edition…
“A world where people regularly use 9 year old operating systems is not a healthy computing ecosystem.”
[…]
“Windows 7 finally offers a compelling upgrade path from Windows XP”
That there are no changes for 9 years is bad, I agree. And windows 7 is nice and polished, of course. I have used the RC for a while and I like it a lot. It’s certainly a big step in the right direction.
But a compelling upgrade? I use XP at work and go days without missing a feature from 7. That’s not a compelling upgrade! To me it feels more like going from a 9 year old OS to a 7 year old OS.
The compelling part is that you will want to upgrade your PC some day, and by then windows 7 will be the only choice.
Windows 7 might be what longhorn was supposed to be, but longhorn was supposed to be out by 2004.
Windows 7 doesn’t have to be good enough to convince people to upgrade their existing machines - upgrading an old machine is often a sucker’s bet anyway. It just has to be good enough that people will accept it on NEW machines, and not downgrade back to XP for new hardware. I think it will meet that goal.
I like Vista. It’s a massive improvement in usability for me over XP. I am excited to use W7. Everyone I’ve heard who’s used it and reported on it says it’s great.
I remember when Win 95 came out, and I knew someone who pined for the DOS command line days cause they thought all the clicking was annoying. Don’t know if that has any relevance whatsoever to the current thread, but I always think of that story when I hear people complain about new stuff.
“I want the world to get the hell off Windows XP. A world where people regularly use 9 year old operating systems is not a healthy computing ecosystem.”
Why?
What, exactly, is really so wrong with XP?
I’d rather live in a world of a long-lived OS where all the day-to-day stuff just works than one where I have to install a major OS upgrade every two 1/2 years.
I gave Ubuntu a good try (several months). Very nice system but not without defaults and I was annoyed to permanently keep VirtualBox to run a few important softs in XP.
Now using Windows 7 since latest RC and I think won’t go back. I liked it within 5 minutes of use
If we could only get a good sized group of ace developers to finish up ReactOS, we could have an open source, free version of XP for life! Then Microsoft can stop supporting XP, and we can stop supporting Microsoft. I would actually be happy to buy a Windows “bare ass naked” edition for 50 bucks.
I have a Vista on my laptop, and it isn’t horrible but it also isn’t an improvement over XP. When I recently purchased a new computer, I built it for XP.
I fully disagree with Atwood’s comment: “A world where people regularly use 9 year old operating systems is not a healthy computing ecosystem”
I’m really very fine with that. There’s been an over-emphasis on the operating system for far too long. It should just shut up and get out of the way. As long as it continues to be updated and has plenty of drivers, we don’t need to be changing operating systems very 3 years. XP has ushered in a period of relative stability to our industry that’s been very good thing and, unsurprisingly, people are reluctant to move away from that.
Unfortunately, XP is really at the end of it’s life due to the move to 64bit. I’m confident that Windows 7 is an improvement over Vista, but I’m not yet convinced that it’s the next 9 year operating system.
Get ready for Wi-Fi driver hell with W7
But I use OS X
Nice, real nice. A class act.
It’s amazing how this post has managed to draw the few percent who are going to stick with XP out of the woodwork.
There’s a lot of arrogance surrounding the subject of the move from XP to Vista/7. Stupid is as stupid does. Stupid is quite the loudmouth.
Forgive me if I decide to wait until someone a little less biased
If you dislike this blog enough to bitch about it in your own blog more then once then you not only need to get out more, but you need to find content that you enjoy reading rather then reading shit you hate.
"[…] The core of the operating system isn’t that different, but the experience is absolutely what Vista should have been on day one […]"
so now you are quoting me: http://twitter.com/dani3l3/status/1475716374
How could you possibly think you would not relaunch the holy war between operating systems devotees?
Joke aside, i’m interested in a business review of Windows 7 and you seem to be able to do that honestly.
I’m a corporate windows system admin, and a happy one, because if you do things by the book, windows and active directory are realy good tools for the job. But we stick to XP as the cost of vista is just not worth it. And no software requires the upgrade, which means that with a correct maintenance, our old screwdriver is just not rusty.
And as i got everything outside my company running leopard (unix rulez and aqua is the only good interface for it - YEAH ! - ahem, sorry for that) I wont test it except on a dual boot macbook.
What does windows 7 brings us in term of efficiency in the corporate world, in your opinion?
