Windows 7 vs Windows Vista

spannerzone

Well you did say you were being pedantic so we'll allow it

esuhl

carlpayne wrote: »

windows 7 is better than Vista. Go for it.

Vista can be annoying and 7 may be better... but unless you are expecting it to resolve specific problems for which you have no suitable wokaround... £100 is a lot to pay.

In most cases Windows 7 isn't "£100 better" thann Vista...

GunJack

^^^ seconded

...but at £39 from softwareforstudents, I would be tempted......

prowla

Windows 7 is better than Vista, but you need a machine pokey enough to do the Aero interface embellishments or you get a worse user interface.
But it's not £100 better.

4 GB is the maximum memory for 32-bit OS, but you can get away with 1 GB. (Note that memory is usually sized in GB (gigabytes), not Gb (gigabits).)

free4440273

if your machine's spec can cope then do the upgrade to 7; vista was an absolute disaster imo. i deliberately eschewed it. make sure u backup all data .

Richie-from-the-Boro

Millionaire wrote: »

At £100 I would not upgrade. Windows 8 is out next year.

- I've been runing Win8 for nearly six months / not impressed - when compared with Win7
- Win8 will be an ok upgrade for someone not already on Win7
- WinXP is a good O/S in the same way as the plastic pig was good for the disabled .. .. it got you there .. .. but no safety
- Win7 is what Vista should have been .. .. if they'd done the job right .. .. but they didn't, it was worse than WinXP - total carp

O/T nice to see the ' great clunking fist Hammy' posting again :beer:

esuhl

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

WinXP is a good O/S in the same way as the plastic pig was good for the disabled .. .. it got you there .. .. but no safety

Win7 is what Vista should have been .. .. if they'd done the job right .. .. but they didn't, it was worse than WinXP - total carp

I agree with you there - Vista really was a bodge job. It showcased some great innovation (in registry shims and virtualisation that allowed for a smooth transition from a lax security model to a more Unix-like one), but was a bit rough round the edges... Or completely unfinished might be another way to put it! Windows 7 was just the finished version of Vista.

But Windows XP was (and still is) great. With suitable malware protection it's a brilliant OS - it's got a fast, clean UI, it was stable and responsive, easy to configure, etc. I've never had any problems with malware (except one incident in 2003 when I accidentally installed a browser toolbar on a 133MHz PC that I thought too slow to have an anti-virus - hardly the end of the world!).

I still use XP on a couple of old machines and am not in the slightest bit tempted to upgrade. I'll probably move them to Linux when XP extended support finally ends.

jayme1

I'm going to throw this out there but you could run windows 8 right now for free, it is in pre beta release but it is stable as hell and in everyday use has run and done everything I ask of it, if you disable the windows 8 start menu back to the windows 7 version, using this hack, then you will have free windows until win8 is released next year. it is also much better on lower end hardware than windows 7

I personally would get shut of XP, it is rubbish and old, all it gave me was hell, never worked and I couldn't wait to get rid of it, vista was a good OS but was sold on rubbish low spec hardware and was caught up in the internet hype so people incorrectly thought it was rubbish, windows 7 is even better and because the world had better spec machines and OEMs had written software for vista by that point, it can run very well, windows 8 is basically the same as windows 7 but with a different start menu (which you can turn off), any software windows 7 can run windows 8 can to, and it is more suited to lower end hardware, which if your computer is running XP then that's what you likely have.

GunJack

esuhl wrote: »

But Windows XP was (and still is) great. With suitable malware protection it's a brilliant OS - it's got a fast, clean UI, it was stable and responsive, easy to configure, etc.

.... when XP extended support finally ends.

Couldn't agree more with the top part of the quote, and I'll rue the day when the bottom part finally happens

Richie-from-the-Boro

esuhl wrote: »

I agree with you there - Vista really was a bodge job. It showcased some great innovation (in registry shims and virtualisation that allowed for a smooth transition from a lax security model to a more Unix-like one), but was a bit rough round the edges... Or completely unfinished might be another way to put it! Windows 7 was just the finished version of Vista.

But Windows XP was (and still is) great. With suitable malware protection it's a brilliant OS - it's got a fast, clean UI, it was stable and responsive, easy to configure, etc. I've never had any problems with malware (except one incident in 2003 when I accidentally installed a browser toolbar on a 133MHz PC that I thought too slow to have an anti-virus - hardly the end of the world!).

I still use XP on a couple of old machines and am not in the slightest bit tempted to upgrade. I'll probably move them to Linux when XP extended support finally ends.

- nowt wrong with Linux - its a good platform
- Win8 / touch screen iPod4 user generation style interface users will like it
- as 'jayme1' says the interface is carp .. for me - I also changed it Win7 Start Menu