windows 7 whats the big pull?

devizes18193

So at the moment is between £50- £70 , I know lots have preorderd it . Why though ?
surely there's better things to spend your money on , petrol etc . Yes i've used the rc and yes its nice , but If i upgraded the browser i would be using would be the same .
Xp and vista will be updated for a while yet .
So out of interest whats the big pull

superscaper

devizes18193 wrote: »

So at the moment is between £50- £70 , I know lots have preorderd it . Why though ?
surely there's better things to spend your money on , petrol etc . Yes i've used the rc and yes its nice , but If i upgraded the browser i would be using would be the same .
Xp and vista will be updated for a while yet .
So out of interest whats the big pull

Well the preordering makes sense if you intend to upgrade since if you leave it until later you'd be spending a lot more for the same thing. As for "better things to spend your money on" it's a bit presumptuous to assume everyone has exactly the same priorities and preferences as yourself.

devizes18193

sorry, its just we all use computer for differt things , gaming, you tube etc . When vista was in the offing , most people did not bother , that seems to change this time round , yet the interface to me is not all that different . I was curious that all

superscaper

devizes18193 wrote: »

sorry, its just we all use computer for differt things , gaming, you tube etc . When vista was in the offing , most people did not bother , that seems to change this time round , yet the interface to me is not all that different . I was curious that all

I don't know if that is the case. Most people I know who have bought a new PC in the last year or so have all got Vista used it without complaint. When XP came out I don't think there was an outpouring of people clamboring to upgrade to it. I think much of this perceived "failure" of Vista is exaggerated. In the same way the perceived pre"success" of 7 is also hyped up. MS have certainly marketed it better. I think they avoided the mistakes of Vista in terms of marketing, not having such silly min. specs for Vista compatibility, and also 7 is genuinely more efficient and better built for lower spec machines.

bat999

The big pull?

Maybe it's about early adopters.
:cool:

RobTang

Mostly the ooohh shiny factor for the main desktop.

The laptop runs a good bit faster and cooler, plus it has all the nice new touch features which makes it essential.

sabretoothtigger

7 is slightly better and also will run dx11 but really that wont matter for 5 years even if you do play games.

Ubergeeks will want it and its possible specialist interest users will benefit from some feature but otherwise no biggy

Taffybiker

As for me, I plan to stay with XP for as long as it works. In the same vein I stayed with Win98 SE for a long time after XP was introduced. Eventually, I had to upgrade because of new hardware/software that wasn't compatible with 98. By this time of course, most of the teething problems with XP had been ironed out.

Money_Grabber13579

I think most of the people who will be upgrading will be XP users, as support for that OS will soon run out. Vista doesn't appear to be all that different from W7, so it probably only be those who really want the latest in technology that will upgrade from it.

I'm in the XP camp!

isofa

I will switch my main machines over probably Oct/Nov time. In actual fact I'll buy a brand new top end machine with it installed as a main test bed, even though I've tested the RC.

The pull - I have to support clients with XP and some older bespoke XP only apps, there was no pull with Vista at all, to me it wasn't worth the time, all style (debatable!) and no substance, no features I use as a developer and photographer were worth having (and any which did look interesting, were executed but better on my OS X machine), just my opinion others liked it, each to their own. I still think Vista is a mess for many reasons!

Win 7 is a much better prospect (at the moment), first it's bang up to date and it's got a full XP compat. mode, it's got some good new features, it's lighter and more efficient than Vista, so they say...

I guess 64-bit with proper driver signing will be a good move over at the same time for me, as 32-bit is going to start to die out in the coming years, so that'll be another reason why I'm switching too.

May corporates I deal with are only just slowly switching from W2K to XP. So being able to run older apps (even though I could via a VPC) is useful, especially as with the right multi-core processors you get a proper virtualisation.

I'd normally wait until a first service pack before switching a major OS, but the RC is so good, I'm happy to go with it early on, but on a brand new machine...

I'm also not happy to keep using XP Pro as a main base for any longer than this year, as it's getting too long in the tooth.

point3

Same reason people buy a new game, DVD or CD when it comes out. It's new and improved, new features to try and old bugs ironed out.

In the case of Windows 7, it's better looking, with a more 3-dimensional appearance than XP, and it shares many of Vista's rather slick glass Aero effects. At the same time it's less resource hogging than Vista was. There's better integration of drivers so that more devices are plug 'n' play. There's a new "Superbar" taskbar which works in a similar way to Apple's Dock, allowing one to launch and switch applications with a click.

Additionally, many people, especially in the U.K., will have bought a netbook with Linux pre-installed. Fact of life is that some people will not get on with Linux. Many will have tried the Beta or RC version of Windows 7 because it was free, and see the opportunity to buy a full retail version of Windows 7 at a promo price to be a good way to get a Windows OS onto their machines.