Buying Windows 7

spaceboy

prowla wrote: »

Windows 8 is a puzzle to me - they've reversed years of HCI research and given you a clunky pastel lozenge home screen thing that was designed for a mobile phone and looks stupid when it is upsized for a high resolution PC monitor.

It's only a puzzle to you because you dont know anything about it other than the home screen. It boots in about 5 seconds.

BigRonW

I get (voluntarily) bombarded by special offer emails from some of the larger PC Parts suppliers, and today brought me one from https://www.Aria.com. Under the headline "THIS WEEK END ONLY" they were offering Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 for £68.39... which they claim "in print" to be the UK's cheapest. Looks like they've only got 12 on offer, so check it out FAST!
http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/newsletter?productId=38272&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=MICROSOFT+Windows+Home+Premium+7+SP1+64-bit+EN+1pk+-+OEM+[GFC-02050]&utm_campaign=newsletter191012

spaceboy

BigRonW wrote: »

I get (voluntarily) bombarded by special offer emails from some of the larger PC Parts suppliers, and today brought me one from www.Aria.com. Under the headline "THIS WEEK END ONLY" they were offering Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 for £68.39... which they claim "in print" to be the UK's cheapest. Looks like they've only got 12 on offer, so check it out FAST!
http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/newsletter?productId=38272&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=MICROSOFT+Windows+Home+Premium+7+SP1+64-bit+EN+1pk+-+OEM+[GFC-02050]&utm_campaign=newsletter191012

But why if Windows 8 is available for £25?

closed

spaceboy wrote: »

No it wouldnt. And I think you'll find Windows 8 would boot super fast.

It's only a puzzle to you because you dont know anything about it other than the home screen. It boots in about 5 seconds.

I think you'll find:

1. The question was about W7

2. You haven't compared the 2 operating systems on the OP's hardware, or any hardware.

3. The later the version of windows, the more bloated it is, the slower it is. Machines get faster over time, so they all end up booting in about the same time, ignoring ssd's and bios improvements which the op won't have. W7 boots slower than XP on the same hardware.

4. Most bioses take at least 5 seconds to complete before windows even starts.

You were asking for advice on buying W8 yesterday, and are now an expert?

BigRonW

spaceboy wrote: »

But why if Windows 8 is available for £25?

Because THAT is what the O/P SAID she wanted? She asked for Windows 7, I don't see it as my "job" to badger her into buying something else. Instead, I came up with what almost certainly IS the lowest current UK price for the product she'd actually requested.

I notice that NOBODY suggested to her that she might like to download the FREE Working Demo of Windows 8 from Microsoft, to burn, install, and see if she likes it....

prowla

spaceboy wrote: »

It's only a puzzle to you because you dont know anything about it other than the home screen. It boots in about 5 seconds.

If you say so...

The home screen is the first thing you see (being a home screen and all that), and it is naff.

But if you do go to the desktop then the user interface is a mish-mash of gestures, Windows key combinations, right clicks, and the different things that appear by virtue of those actions come in in different fonts and styles.

I've no doubt that it is probably better under the bonnet and so-on, but the user interface is a total kludge.

I have 4 licences for it. I know a company that evaluated it and it pooped on them so they reverted.

Maybe Microsoft themselves believe the "every other version of Windows is a dog" - who knows?

spaceboy

BigRonW wrote: »

Because THAT is what the O/P SAID she wanted? She asked for Windows 7, I don't see it as my "job" to badger her into buying something else. Instead, I came up with what almost certainly IS the lowest current UK price for the product she'd actually requested.

I notice that NOBODY suggested to her that she might like to download the FREE Working Demo of Windows 8 from Microsoft, to burn, install, and see if she likes it....

Well I think it's only sensible to recommend Windows 8 as it's cheaper and faster than Windows 7. The rest of you are not giving the lady all the options available to her.

debitcardmayhem

spaceboy wrote: »

Well I think it's only sensible to recommend Windows 8 as it's cheaper and faster than Windows 7. The rest of you are not giving the lady all the options available to her.

Notwithstanding your poor opinion of the rest of the rest of us , I offered options but you seriously seem to have a chip on your shoulder perhaps:p

spaceboy

No I dont, it seems the person I was replying to does.

debitcardmayhem

spaceboy wrote: »

No I dont, it seems the person I was replying to does.

Ah ok I stand corrected then , but surely I am "one of the rest of you" rather than the person you were replying to
sorry it's friday and I am being pedantic, mind you I am normally pedantic if there is a "y" in the day:o