DiscussWorldIssues - Socio-Economic Religion and Political Uncensored Debate - View Single Post

**optormtix** · 10-28-2009, 11:47 PM

Windows 7 comes out this week. Is anyone going to upgrade??

I am considering it, since I have XP right now. Vista seemed too buggy for me to jump ship. I have heard a lot of good things about "7".

Anyone got an opinion??

I got my copy in the mail yesterday, bought it during the $50 sale they had earlier in the summer.

I've been running the beta and RC versions of Win 7 most of the summer and I like it. I installed it on a 4 year old laptop that had XP and it worked great, it gave new life to the laptop in my opinion, and it booted faster.

I think the new task bar features are great. And it performs well. The version I use on my desktop churns away for weeks on end without a need to reboot (I've rebooted once due to an app/os problem, not sure what it was, but shutdown and restart, 20 seconds later it works fine again.) It comes out of sleep mode in an instant and also looks good. I knew early on about the 'upgrade' path Microsoft was planning, so I've planned around it with partitioning, as I always do anyway, but I do think it will be a pain for many users. But not as much of a pain as it would be to migrate files and setting to a completely new OS. If you choose to stay in the windows world, I think this is a worthwhile upgrade. If you have an 8 year old computer running XP and expect it to happily run with a brand new version of the OS, you are naive. Same goes for macs. And linux.

10-28-2009, 11:47 PM	#14
optormtix Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 485 Senior Member	Windows 7 comes out this week. Is anyone going to upgrade?? I am considering it, since I have XP right now. Vista seemed too buggy for me to jump ship. I have heard a lot of good things about "7". Anyone got an opinion?? I got my copy in the mail yesterday, bought it during the $50 sale they had earlier in the summer. I've been running the beta and RC versions of Win 7 most of the summer and I like it. I installed it on a 4 year old laptop that had XP and it worked great, it gave new life to the laptop in my opinion, and it booted faster. I think the new task bar features are great. And it performs well. The version I use on my desktop churns away for weeks on end without a need to reboot (I've rebooted once due to an app/os problem, not sure what it was, but shutdown and restart, 20 seconds later it works fine again.) It comes out of sleep mode in an instant and also looks good. I knew early on about the 'upgrade' path Microsoft was planning, so I've planned around it with partitioning, as I always do anyway, but I do think it will be a pain for many users. But not as much of a pain as it would be to migrate files and setting to a completely new OS. If you choose to stay in the windows world, I think this is a worthwhile upgrade. If you have an 8 year old computer running XP and expect it to happily run with a brand new version of the OS, you are naive. Same goes for macs. And linux.
	Quote