What after XP?

In article , gaz says...

Roger wrote:
"GSV Three Minds in a Can" wrote in message

It works quite well, but I prefer XP which has never been unstable.

Apart from pre sp2 lacking in even the most basic security...

And Pre SP1 being as bad as Vista pre-SP1.



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I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.

In article , bcoombes
says...

This is true, it's just that it had the unfortunate habit of falling over every
ten minutes.

47.9 day reboot....


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Conor
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In article , gaz says...

I unpacked a dell laptop about three weeks ago with vista home premium, out
of the box it had about three to four errors that caused start up glitches
and required troubleshooting.

Most of that down to all the bundled ****e they put on.



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Conor
www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk

I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.

Conor wrote:
In article , gaz says...

I unpacked a dell laptop about three weeks ago with vista home premium, out
of the box it had about three to four errors that caused start up glitches
and required troubleshooting.

Most of that down to all the bundled ****e they put on.



Sony hold the record for that though, they must have some specialists somewhere
who sit around thinking about what they can do to make their machines unuseable
out of the box.

XP-dinaosur wrote:
On 15:31 18 Oct 2009, GSV Three Minds in a Can wrote:

Bitstring ,
from the wonderful person XP-dinosaur said
I'm a home user on XP Pro. I need to work out what OS to
specify on a prebuilt machine (one for me and one for a
friend). It's either Windows 7 or Vista.

Although I'm fairly technical I haven't kept up to date with
details of the newer Windows. I haven't even seen either Win 7
or Vista running!

I did hear Vista get announced and heard how it had problems
with things like incompatible drivers. Then I heard Windows 7
was announced but ISTR it's not really fully complete or
something like that.

What might be the best choice to go for?
Well Windows Vista is demonstrably horrid .. Windows7 has yet
to be convicted, but might turn out to be even worse. Who can
tell. XP is still much the best option, except it isn't an
option unless you are a corporate customer, or install the OS
yourself....

If you're going to climb a learning curve I guess you might as
well do it with Win7 though. I mean it =could= be worse than
Vista, but it is hard to imagine.

Someone said Win7 is officially released later this week. Everyone
seems to talk of Win7 as if they have been using it a while. They
must have been talking about a beta version.


I've been using it for a year in beta and had the RTM installed since
August as have a lot of people.

On 15:30 18 Oct 2009, Jeff Gaines wrote:

On 18/10/2009 in message

XP-dinosaur wrote:

I'm a home user on XP Pro. I need to work out what OS to
specify on a prebuilt machine (one for me and one for a
friend). It's either Windows 7 or Vista.

Vista is obsolete, Win7 launches in 4 days - and it makes up a
lot of the deficiencies in Vista.

PC ads seemed to suggest Win7 was an established option. If Win7
isn't officially announced then I guess the vendors were just taking
advance orders. Or has the OEM version of Win7 been out some time?

gaz wrote:
Jeff Gaines wrote:
On 18/10/2009 in message
XP-dinosaur
wrote:
I'm a home user on XP Pro. I need to work out what OS to specify on
a prebuilt machine (one for me and one for a friend). It's either
Windows 7 or Vista.
Vista is obsolete, Win7 launches in 4 days - and it makes up a lot of
the deficiencies in Vista.

Vista should never have been released. Is there anyone anywhere that can
honestly say that the world would not have been a better place if MS had
skipped vista and went straight for Windows 7?

Windows 7 really /is/ Vista, just with some of annoyances filed down.
Without all the bad press from Vista, Windows 7 would never have been
released so quickly, or with as much sensitivity to users' complaints.

I did, however, "skipped Vista and went straight for Windows 7."

On 18/10/2009 in message
XP-dinosaur wrote:

PC ads seemed to suggest Win7 was an established option. If Win7
isn't officially announced then I guess the vendors were just taking
advance orders. Or has the OEM version of Win7 been out some time?

Manufacturers have had access to it for perhaps 4-8 weeks along with
places like MSDN.

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who do binary and those
who don't.

On 18/10/2009 in message
XP-dinaosur wrote:

Someone said Win7 is officially released later this week. Everyone
seems to talk of Win7 as if they have been using it a while. They
must have been talking about a beta version.

MSFT made the release candidate available for public down-load for a
while. It expires around next Spring.

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his
life.
(Jeremy Thorpe, 1962)

"Jeff Gaines" wrote in message
...
On 18/10/2009 in message
XP-dinosaur wrote:

PC ads seemed to suggest Win7 was an established option. If Win7
isn't officially announced then I guess the vendors were just taking
advance orders. Or has the OEM version of Win7 been out some time?

Manufacturers have had access to it for perhaps 4-8 weeks along with
places like MSDN.

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who do binary and those
who don't.

yeah its just us plebs waiting the last few days till the official pleb
launch date...anyone that mattered got it weeks or months ago.

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