Is windows 7 good?

BillScarab

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Yes they (or maybe it was 7") were used for the microcode on some early mainframes and were still in use for the 3274 (if I remember the number correctly) controllers for a long while - certainly into the 1990s.

Yep, I think the 3274's were the last thing we used them on.

Richie-from-the-Boro

anewhope wrote: »

It can't have been actually that bad otherwise WS2008 would have gotten an equally poor reception, instead it was well received. It's a good indication of who and who doesn't know what they're talking about, which was the only significant problem Vista encountered..

Lets have a memory lesson :

- Vista released, then;
- WinXP support stopped by Microsoft to force into Vista sales, then ;
- Vista did not reach anywhere near new sales, then ;
- Vista was not chosen by the public as a replacement O/S, then ;
- Joe public bought his new box but insisted Vista was taken off WinXP on'
- Microsoft relented and reopened support for WinXP, so :

Even the big box shifters could not convince people to use Vista, the customer base was shifting, Microsoft were forced to again support WinXP for as long as it took till the new Win 7 was released.

- - you entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts !

I have no problem with Vista, it's my gaming rig - its 4 cores and 8Gig and 2 ATi 3850's on GDDR3, and once I crippled all the Vista rubbish it's ran like a dream for 2 years.

Best Wishes, Boro-Lad

Niv

My first pc was a sinclair ibm compatible pc, it had no hard-drive so I had to load dos from a floppy every time I turned it on. Ahhh the good old days of populous!

[Deleted User]

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Lets have a memory lesson :
- WinXP support stopped by Microsoft to force into Vista sales, then ;
- Vista did not reach anywhere near new sales, then ;
- Vista was not chosen by the public as a replacement O/S, then ;
- Joe public bought his new box but insisted Vista was taken off WinXP on'
- Microsoft relented and reopened support for WinXP, so :

Support for Windows XP isn't going to be terminated until April 2014, it's now in the Extended Support phrase inline with the Microsoft support lifecycle. There never was a case of stopping and restarting support. There was an extension granted for OEMs manufacturing low powered machines such as Netbooks to continue licencing the product, however.

Even the big box shifters could not convince people to use Vista, the customer base was shifting, Microsoft were forced to again support WinXP for as long as it took till the new Win 7 was released.

Vista accounts for approximately 25% of the marketshare of operating systems, not exactly a poor seller but not exactly stellar. There were factors that affected that, I'm fairly sure the global economic downturn was a significant obstacle to it penetrating further into the corporate environment..

- - you entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts !

Throw some in and we'll talk about them :cool:

I have no problem with Vista, it's my gaming rig - its 4 cores and 8Gig and 2 ATi 3850's on GDDR3, and once I crippled all the Vista rubbish it's ran like a dream for 2 years.

I installed it on my parents computer (Athlon 4800+/2GB RAM/Cheap GPU) with nothing tweaked and it ran perfectly without any tweaking. I even had it on Netbooks running well after a certain amount of tweaking but certainly nothing much.

letsbehonest

People are always moaning/berating M.S. O/S's why not change over to Apple.

closed

Widelats wrote: »

Yes, i pay £339.00 total, then i will get the laptop, paying £25 - £30 per fortnight to the shop, i have dyscalculia so i hope they have got the figures correct as every time i try to figure it out i get confused.

You are paying up front in installments for a laptop you won't touch until you've paid the lot, which retailer is this?

Put the money in a bank account, you'll get more for your money in 6 months time

macman

Can I ask anyone who's done an 'in place upgrade' from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium (as opposed to a clean install), what happens to Windows Mail? Is it removed along with all the data? A friend wants to upgrade, but wonders if he can retain WinMail and all his existing emails and contacts?
I asked this question on another thread but didn't really get a definitive answer.

busenbust

macman wrote: »

Can I ask anyone who's done an 'in place upgrade' from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium (as opposed to a clean install), what happens to Windows Mail? Is it removed along with all the data? A friend wants to upgrade, but wonders if he can retain WinMail and all his existing emails and contacts?
I asked this question on another thread but didn't really get a definitive answer.

And I'm afraid I can't give you a definitive answer also. In theory, contacts and emails should remain intact, but IME (I've upgraded several machines via an in-place upgrade method) there is simply no consistency here: on some, emails/contacts are saved; and on others they are not. I suppose in these instances that I've described here, it did help somewhat that all the users were also using web-based email.

I'm pretty certain that contacts within Windows Mail can be saved beforehand.

HTH.

pastmybest

My best friend was so impressed by Windosw 7, on his new PC, he took his spare PC, laptop and notebook to the local PC shop and had Windows 7 installed on all of them. Previously they were a mix of Vista and XP.