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No, but I'll wait to see if it is any better that the disaster that was v.6.
Sticking with v.5 until I see a tide of favourable reviews.
Saludos,
Bob.
no
EDIT - I am on XP not Vista
Kept a PC with XP Pro on it (just to run XARA Extreme Pro) and moved on onto MAC OS. Best move I've ever made...
Dan
As per Handrawn .... no .... I am on XP not Vista
As long as it isn't broken, I have absolutely no plans to try and fix it. With previous experience of OS's it only causes more problems with my legacy software than I need ...
Many tests shows less performance with the same hardware, windows 7 being slightly better than vista.
7 is still in beta but I wouldn't hold my breath.
I will stick with xp for now.
I'll stick with XP until software I want to use stops working with it.
Derek
Back when this question was about Windows XP I answered in the negative and kept Windows 2000. Eventually I did update to XP.
When Vista was in it's initial beta I installed it and have kept Vista updated and find it the best version of Windows as long as UAC is disabled.
I have used the Windows 7 beta and will add it to my collection when financially able to do so.
Yes..
Absolutely NOT!
The DRM management is appearing more and more draconian, see:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../02/16/2259257
and as VMWare (or Parallels) is now so reasonably priced and so good (so I can run Xara!) I am moving to a Mac Pro later in the year. What took me so long?
Brett
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!
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.
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
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
The worst support for older hardware on new operating systems really comes from the manufacturers, not Microsft.
I'm no MS fanboy, but the reality is that hardware manufacturers have an agenda which does not include developing drivers for older hardware to work with new generation operating system technology.
Printer manufactures (as an example) are in the business of selling more ink, to do so, they constantly release new printers at low prices in order to get hardware into homes and the thirst for ink to begin.
This is nothing new.
The same thing happened when XP was released.
As for Creative drivers - yes well - Creative have quite a reputation there.
I may have to eat my words (thoughts) regarding Creative's past reputations. :o
Seems they already have Windows 7 drivers for many of their sound cards available right now.
http://support.creative.com/kb/showa...aspx?sid=61105
Again, full support for hardware really is the manufacturers responsibility, not MS (unless it's MS hardware of course :D).
The native drivers which are shipped with Windows are generally developed by or with the manufacturer in any case. Manufacturers who don't care to co-operate with MS and gain digital certificates (the rubber stamp of approval) generally aren't interested in legacy hardware support (they have new stuff to push out ;)).
Don't know yet
I think of a desktopreplacement notebook
This will be the future i think.
(we will in the near future have a complete wireless network in my hometown)
Besides win7 will have a winXP intergrated for usage on notebooks.
Acer will provide its notebooks with a dualboot sytem with Windows and Android,like to see how that will go.
Hans I thought Android was for mobile phones and similar devices.
Well.. I've tried 1 beta and this RC build 7100 (I work on XP and 7 RC nearly simultaneously with copies of my documents and other things including software installations on two separate hard disks) and I must say that after initial enthusiasm and "I can't wait until it's out" attitude I have to think more about it.
One thing is that XP is like what... 8 years old? This is hell a lot of time... but it's still solid, up to date and "the most" compatible system at the moment. Besides, I'd rather want my hardware to be "too new" for the system (I have Athlon X2 5600, 4GB RAM, Radeon 4850) rather than "just enough" or slightly above average for this brand new 7. I know XP, I remember everything I need to customise after fresh format and it works OK...
Why move to 7 then?
Well.. 7 is new, which means it has fresh ways for solving old problems. Of course, it's only RC and since I skipped Vista completely, it would be nice to switch over to 7 in the nearest future. Some things are better than in XP but I have some minor problems with the GUI and my old habits. RC is valid for a year more so I guess I have time... and I'm thinking about waiting for Service Pack 1 as it's or it hasn't been a right thing to switch to completely new system (it was like that with Win 2000, with XP and I think it will be like that with 7). But SP 1 will be something around the middle of 2010.. quite a lot of time...
And it would be nice to have a 64-bit system because when it comes to my XP, it's 32-bit and I can't use the whole 4GB of RAM... I'm using Windows 7 RC which is 64-bit so it feels like there's no waste when it comes to my RAM...
I don't know really, I'm still testing and making up my mind. I hope the prices won't be high... Vista is so expensive at the moment due to this crisis scam and exchange rates that I don't know if I want to spend more than reasonable for e.g. 7 home premium... we'll see.
I have an MSI netbook and I guess it will always have XP : )
I have a new machine and have installed Win7 on it and it is working really well. Coming from WinXP I think it's a really great update and one I don't have to pay for until next year. The only niggles I have are that some flash detection seems a bit funky - perhaps because of thee new OS ID, but I'm not sure. Overall a thumbs up and hopefully no going back.
As it happens this coincides with switching from a P4M 2.4Ghz to a dual 2.1 GHz Core 2 Duo - what have I been missing!
Paul
Steve
I've already chewed on mine. Thanks for that link. I don't know why I missed it as I had had a hunt. I think it was the assumption that I wasn't going to find what I wanted. Sound card now working, if I can sort out a scanner and maybe a TV (not vital) I'll be in business.
Back with XP for the moment though.
Derek
OK, I'm up for it Derek :D
Which scanner do you have??
[ Derek, tell him it's the EpsoCanonMustek 1401b, he'll be searching the web for hours.. ;-) ]
I have an elderly Mustek scanner as it happens, but this one is a Trust Direct Web Scan 9200 but as the printer has develpoped what might be a terminal problem with the printhead (for some reason more costly to replace than to buy a new printer!!?) I'll probobly go for a printer/scanner option as a replacement if it come to that so don't waste too much time searching on my behalf until I know what I've got to do. I'm asuming that a new scanner/printer combo would be supported.
Having spent a day with Win7 I must admit that whatever else I wouldn't be happy without upgrading (replacing) the entire PC (2 years old Dual Core 2 gig ram etc.) as the difference in performance when moving back to XP is very noticable and I dont know what advantage there is to trying to stay with W7, pretty though it is to look at, I'm not sure what else I'm getting that is a genuine improvement.
Derek
Derek, if you're unhappy with a DualCore 2GB machine, I really don't know what to say. Win 7 is really responsive on my laptop and I have a similar spec to you. Your graphics card may be the culprit, so it may just be a question of reigning back some of the graphics features of Win 7 (Vista). That said, windows XP is a great OS.
Paul
It's not that it crawls along, in fact it operates well enough to use perfectly well, unlike our Vista laptop, I just hate that blue circle thing that’s often there when I ask it to do something and once again I wonder how happy I'd feel if I'd forked out a bucket load of cash and found I had in effect bought myself a lower spec. computer.
I'm assuming more ram and a newer CPU, which for me means a new motherboard as well, would get it up to speed but of course that’s more expense and what am I getting that I don't have already albeit in the guise of an old fashioned looking OS.
Given that W7 is in effect free at the moment I am going to persevere and make a decision when its finally released or perhaps when SP1 is released subsequently.
Derek
I have no plans to move to Windows 7 because I don't see the point.
it does come with some cool wallpapers - [which are are now renamed 'desktop backgrounds'] - GB-wp5 [rock ruins and sea] is best I have seen in a long long time...
far more seriously the list of things that wont work for me - from Nero 6 to Mustek A3 USB scanner [no support after vista, and those drivers wont work] - is long and expensive
and 2014 is 5 years away, long enough perhaps for windows 8... long enough to organise a mac.....
so no plans yet except to see how the wind blows...
To those that have ver 7 installed - on another list someone mentioned that with ver 7 he needed to be connected to the internet permanently or the PC won't run.... Can you confirm that you also do this?
thanks
Well, my machine is generally connected to the internet anyway, but it sounds like nonsense to me.
you would not believe the trouble I had getting the wireless adaptor in the test machine connected to the router
during that time [couple of days], everything else that was installed seemed to work just fine
Thanks very much - wondered if perhaps this was the way of things in the future
my router is WPA2 and this cannot be changed [policy, not hardware limitation of course] - no drivers for the adapter card worked under win 7 [dare say WEP would have been ok] - so ended up changing the card, not easy in the machine in question, which is why it is the 'spare' :)
The TP-LINK router also employs the WPA2 security protocol.
Your NIC may have been the problem, rather than your router.
yes that's what I am saying [I think] :)
nothing wrong with the router at all, its only 4 months old and fine with the other 2 machines on WPA2
- it was the original adapter card in the 'spare' computer, [that would be the NIC], which could not handle the WPA2 under win7 - to be fair it was long in tooth...
I have Vista on some newer PCs so yes, I am moving to Win 7. Anyone who has Vista and stays with it is nuts... impo.
The hardware recommendations for Win 7 are much lower than for Vista - so more lower end users can still enjoy all the pretties of Aero, and new stuff in the OS.
For people having any driver problems, look for a Vista driver. In most instances Vista drivers work fine in Win 7. Keep checking thouugh... you should find updates soon.
For anone who is interrested, Win 7 upgrades are on sale for $49.00 pre-release if you get it before release on Oct 22. They say supplies on upgrades are limited, but you guys know that line! :) The upgrade DVD contains both 32 and 64 bit versions. The upgrade sale is for XP and Vista users. es you can do a clean install from the upgrade DVD - just Google it *winks*.
As for MS restrictions or allowances... learn how to tweak all those settings. It is the best thing you can do! :)
I am writing this using the Win 7 RC, (Dual boot config with Vista) :rolleyes:
I have already pre-ordered 2 copies of Win 7! :D
Yes without a doubt, I'm now running W7 on my desktop, laptop and now even on my netbook, and I love it, it's the os Vista was supposed to be. It's a lot less ram hungry than Vista and in my experience faster and more stable. The library feature is great and file sharing between home grouped pc's is very easy, I also love the way you can pin all your apps to the task bar and keep your desktop much tidier. My laptop ran like a dog on Vista even though it was supplied with it, since installing W7, it’s been like a new machine and is now a pleasure to use, my netbook run ms office faster than on my laptop, I've had no hardware issues to speak of and all the vista drivers i've used have worked fine. My only gripe was that nvidia realsed a couple of poor W7 drivers that would not run some of my games, I reverted back to the Vista drivers and "hey presto", fixed.