Are you planning to move to Windows 7?

[MEB]

Yes, i´m thinking in buying a new pc (instead of an iMac) this summer and Win7 seems a good choice, based on what i´ve been reading and testing.

I´ve bought a macbook a few months ago and althought it´s an excelent choice to work with, it´s ridiculously expensive for what is offers regarding hardware specs (like any other mac for that matter). For those that like to get their hands dirty with hardware and know how to solve and upgrade parts of their machine Windows is a better choice, much more acessible and always with the fastest and greatest hardware available.

Currently there´s simply no quad cores available for iMacs yet! and Intel is already preparing to launch 8 cores processors!

[jyoung]

I am sure I will eventually migrate to it after it has been out for a while and gets a lot of bugs out. I always wait. Took the longest time for me to go to xp pro which I still use for now.

[JonH27]

No, like many others I'm going to stick with XP (Home) on laptop and main desktop until I need to change a PC. I've yet to come across any app that I need or want to use that demands anything more than XP. Interesting, though, to read that reviewers are finding that Windows 7 can be usable on netbooks which struggle to run Vista, suggesting that maybe Microsoft have finally learned that a better/newer OS ought to be possible without demanding a significant leap in minimum spec hardware requirements to run it...

Jon

[masque]

Having said that I will not be interested in Win7 I downloaded the RC1 version and installed it onto a spare hard drive so as not to risk anything happening to my XPproSP3 installation.
The installation of Win 7 went through very rapidly without a hitch. I had a quick look round the new operating system and then plugged in my Canon printer. Win7 sneered at me when I offered the printer installation disk and went right ahead and installed the printer on its own so that all looked quite promising.
I plugged in my scanner but this time as well as sneering at my puny XP installation disk for the scanner it failed to recognise that my scanner even existed and refused to consider any compromise with the possible exception of showing me a map where I might buy a new scanner.
The next thing to be sneered at was my Creative X-Fi sound card, hardly an antique, but one that Win7 had no drivers for and Creative , not having heard of Windows7, have done nothing about so there was another disappointment.
I opened Windows Media Centre and was reminded that I hadn’t plugged in a TV receiver of any kind. So I did but again installation was not possible, though if it had been it would have been a little quiet without a sound card.
At that point I gave up and removed my temporary hard drive and reconnected my usual setup of XPProSP3.
Everything works fine as usual and helped me re-affirm my, ‘if it aint broke don’t fix it’ motto.
Change is all well and good but to have to mess about for weeks or simply replace otherwise perfectly good equipment because its not supported is not worth it for the sake of a few see through windows and a picture of a fish. It does seem to run faster than Vista though, but there again thats not hard and so does XP.
Derek

[Cloud]

Have Xp on all pcs at work, but recently got new laptop with win7, wow this is quit something. Usually do not migrate to new windows operating systems until a year or so after release (gives them a chance to fix the bugs - kept win 98 till xp came around) but might do so at work soon, once we get drivers for our digital presses from the manufacturer.

Kash

[Giovanni]

YES

Using XP right now, but Seven is definately a step ahead in terms of features and ease of use.
I like it almost as much as I dislike Vista.

[Karateed]

Already have on my laptop....will go so on my desktop when I can purchase a copy of Win7....it's a very good OS from my perspective.

[lklein]

Maybe after they get all the bugs out.

My last computer had Vista on it. After using it for about 15 minutes, I installed XP on it. Much better...


Lambert

[covoxer]

Vista was like Windows Me if you know what I mean.
Windows 7 seems to be more like Windows XP.
I have yet to encounter any serious issue in it. It's rock stable for me as XP was.

[ChrisBro]

Same here John I am now running it on 3 machines and never had a minutes worth of issues with it, but then again to be honest I was one of the lucky ones that never had any issues with Vista, touch wood and all that I have had a really positive experience with both os's.

I think the key with these newer os's is too really make sure your machine is truly capable of running them especially if you use memory hogging software on top.

ALso woth remembering is even some of the negative experiences people had with Vista cant truly be put on Microsofts doorstep, there was a hell of a lot of driver compatability issues that were not down to Microsoft, for some reason many of the worlds major manufacturers for things such as printers didn't see fit in making sure their driver packages were ready for the release of Vista even though most of them knew about platform changes some 3 years in advance.

People and companies in general seem a lot better prepared for Windows 7 as indeed Microsoft themselves it truly is a great OS and a pleasure to use

Chris