first thoughts of windows 8 ?

I like Win8 and the Metro interface. It's faster than Win7 on my computer.

On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 06:41:12 +1100, "Brian K"
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I like Win8 and the Metro interface. It's faster than Win7 on my computer.



Did you have to reinstall your programs?

Did you have to reinstall your programs?

I did clean installs with the beta Win8s. I'll buy Win8 next month when I
build a new computer. It will be a clean install and I'll have to install
apps from scratch. I never do upgrade installs.

I'm sticking with XP, where my apps work.

Chiefly a 2005 version of Cygwin.
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"Ron Hardin" wrote in message
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I'm sticking with XP, where my apps work.


Ron,

I'm still on WinXP too. I'm going to build a new computer next month and
that's my main reason for changing the OS. Win8 is faster than WinXP, but I
wouldn't change unless I had a new computer and had to install all apps from
scratch.

"Ron Hardin" wrote in message
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I'm sticking with XP, where my apps work.



I just got a new Dell PC and it has Windows 7. Ugh, I hate it. I much
much MUCH prefer Windows XP! And what's the deal
with no outlook express? Windows 7 sucks so far. But I've only been using
it for 3 days.

"Ron Hardin" wrote in message
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I'm sticking with XP, where my apps work.

Chiefly a 2005 version of Cygwin.

Ron,

Out of interest, in Win7 does Cygwin run in WinXP Compatibility mode? Or in
the WinXP virtual machine run by Win7?

"Von Fourche" wrote:
I just got a new Dell PC and it has Windows 7. Ugh, I hate it. I much
much MUCH prefer Windows XP! And what's the deal
with no outlook express? Windows 7 sucks so far. But I've only been using
it for 3 days.


Outlook Express has been replaced (approximately) with Windows Live Mail.
You can download it he
http://download.cnet.com/Windows-Liv...7_4-98282.html
I have an early version which came installed on my Windows 7 Dell desktop
in the Fall of 2010. I've heard that later versions are less like Outlook Express,
unfortunately. If you don't like the latest Windows Live Mail, I've heard Mozilla's
Thunderbird is good enough to it give a try.

*TimDaniels*

Brian K wrote:

"Ron Hardin" wrote in message
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I'm sticking with XP, where my apps work.

Chiefly a 2005 version of Cygwin.

Ron,

Out of interest, in Win7 does Cygwin run in WinXP Compatibility mode? Or in
the WinXP virtual machine run by Win7?

I haven't gotten my Sigwin to run on win7 but didn't experiment much, just
went to XP. The rearrangement of files under win7 is enough to kill my apps
anyway. Who wants to rewrite a thousand shell scripts when it works fine.
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Ron Hardin wrote:
I haven't gotten my Sigwin to run on win7 but didn't experiment much, just

interesting typo for Cygwin. The fingers do the thinking, somehow.
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