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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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
This poll might be better reset. The answers from May '09 would be radically different now. Back then, far more people were XP and not willing to move on, because the thing *works*.
Now, many people are Vista and begging to move on. :)
Not necessarily ... My answer remains as it was then. The XP still isn't broken. Absolutely no plans to fix it. The only thing that will make me change the OS is if I buy new hardware that comes with a new OS. I've never yet bought a standalone OS ... because of the extortionate cost ... why should I pay almost the same cost as a new system (complete with OS) for the OS on its own. It's never seemed worth that cost to me, especially since that would also mean upgrading a whole slew of software that the new OS doesn't support.
We run a $3000 CAD system .... Not expensive as CAD goes, but when Microsoft released XP SP3, they broke the functionality of printing from that CAD system. Their response was "Contact the CAD manufacturer". The CAD manufacturers response was "Upgrade to the newest version of the CAD system - that works fine with SP3!" The upgrade was $700 per seat!!!!!
Now call me old fashioned if you like, but to my mind the OS is just something that allows you to easily access your "main" programmes. As far as I am concerned, there should NEVER be a case where a OS upgrade stops the "main" programmes from running ... ever ... period.
Went from Vista to 7 64bit. Big improvement, but some things I still don't like about it. Xp to Vista was a step backward IMHO.
jim
Vista was like going back to Windows 2000 Jim?
I wouldn't say that bad, just a lot of inconsistencies and program crashes. I upgraded the same computer (bought with Vista installed) to 7 and no problems now.
Jim
Vista was a great improvement over XP in my opinion. I'm still running Vista Ultimate on my development machine.
I have Windows 7 32bit on an old HP desktop and Windows 7 64bit on a new(ish) Dell laptop. Bought the laptop back in February 2010. ;)
Just so I don't misrecollect, I still have two Windows XP Pro SP3 machines, a Windows 2000 Pro machine, and an old Windows 98 Second Edition machine. All are still running well for the respective version of Windows installed.
BTW Vista is Windows 6 and Windows 7 is officially verson 6.1. ;))
The degree to which XP is *not* broken is precisely why I'm saying that the poll must be reset. By now there are far more people under the thumb of opression of Vista desperately waiting for just about anything else. The more on Vista, the more you will have "planning to move to Windows 7".
This is a more time critical poll than most IMO.
There's no opression and Windows 7 is a very smooth experience. I went from XP to W7 and would not go back. XP is yesterdays technology and many people have already migrated to Win 7, so the poll is mostly obsolete at this stage.
If you like XP - great - stick with it. W7 is no Vista - thumbs up to M$ on this one.
For entirely sensible reasons.
Doesn't really matter what it's called, it works well.