Maybe I’m missing something here .. I read this thread from top to bottom and I have only one question.. Why? There isn’t one instance cited as to this being any sort of an improvement or of this giving additional functionality .. all I’m seeing is people obsessed with having the latest toys and listing ways to fix it’s shortcomings so that it works as well as the old stuff.
You’ll never get those hours/days back that you spend fixing this thing up.
What’s this obsession with a frigging OS all about anyway ... it’s the apps that matter ... nobody ever wrote a proposal with Windows XP they used an office suite... or coded anything with Vista ,, they used a language and a compiler ... The OS just needs to be stable , allocate memory for you and control dataset/database access.
. Did you read,
I am trying to get more life out of this one, as XP would use up most of my 3gb of ram after a while due to 80+ tabs open on Firefox (Chrome or Opera is not an answer, nor Linux), and with many documents open in various stages of completion. And since 64bit can handle more ram and I heard W8 was better on older PCs than Vista and even W/7, and I could try it for free.. .[and] now I can use the ReadyBoost feature.
What i left out was that even after much diagnostics and (root inspections also) and a clean install XP was freezing up sometimes, and that support for XP will end a little over a year from now, thus no more security updates.
And that it boots and loads apps faster than XP, and tests even show a slight advantage over w/7, testifying to efficiency, and it has more functionality now than XP (including its Resource Monitor, Disk Management, File recovery, Speech recognition, etc,.), and perhaps more to come (XP had 3 service packs).
And i could try it for free and buy it for 30.00 with the mail in rebate (i would only recommend it now for people who have faith in Jesus and the patience of a saint!), or even 42.00 download, both unheard of prices for any Windows OS upgrade as far as i know.
So for myself, for 45.00 (including the memory) i can have the latest OS with more functionality and a support cycle perhaps longer than the Constitution may last.
HOWEVER, as i later stated, I see no reason to upgrade from W/7 (though i use Classic Shell with that as well), but at least in my situation an upgrade from XP was worth it i believe, though i would not have agreed to pay more than the 42.00 price
“Maybe I’m missing something here .. I read this thread from top to bottom and I have only one question.. Why? There isn’t one instance cited as to this being any sort of an improvement or of this giving additional functionality .. all I’m seeing is people obsessed with having the latest toys and listing ways to fix it’s shortcomings so that it works as well as the old stuff.”
And ding, ding, ding we have a winner! You’ve read the situation perfectly correctly. Now magnify this little discussion by a million and you understand what’s going on in the technical chat rooms across the Internet.
“What’s this obsession with a frigging OS all about anyway ... it’s the apps that matter ... nobody ever wrote a proposal with Windows XP they used an office suite... or coded anything with Vista ,, they used a language and a compiler ... The OS just needs to be stable , allocate memory for you and control dataset/database access.”
This is the way I look at it; but you have to admit that Microsoft had to do “something”. They have to attract new customers without alienating the older customers. This is a very, very difficult needle to thread, but it must be done.
“Maybe I’m missing something here .. I read this thread from top to bottom and I have only one question.. Why?”
Microsoft’s motto: Change for the sake of change with total disregard for actual improvement.
There is no reason to upgrade from Windows 7 , not one.
It’s not an upgrade for any kind of serious computer use.
Now if you are a social media kiddie you will love all the garbage apps it comes with .