I currently have Windows 7 on a newish laptop, but even then, it is not as user friendly as XP. Once you find your way around (takes time and effort), it's similar to XP, but I see no additional benefits as a casual user. May be business or industrial applications find it better.
Being a capitalist, I understand why these tech companies keep changing/offering new and supposedly improved operating systems. That said, how many more gazillions of dollars does Gates and Co. need? If they want another gazillion bucks, let them diversify and leave their operating systems to what works. Or someone like me is going to move to Apple, which I've been thinking about since the Vista fiasco. When they stop supporting XP, I'm done.
My biggest pisser is software companies who make me buy their latest versions so I don't lose accessibility. Quicken does it every few years and I use them to pay and print my bills. Just had to buy their new version which also isn't as user friendly.
So I take it that Apple doesn't change their OS and is probably the better choice for continuity? Comments?
BTW, Kaspersky Pure 2.0 is possibly the best ant-virus and wall to ever be developed. Since I put that on my machines, I have had NO problems with virus, trojans, malware, etc., and it allows me to download any applications without turning it off. Just a heads up.
My biggest gripe with software upgrades/updates is that they can cause more problems then they resolve.
Just this morning I had to drop Firefox 13 and return to FF12 to get a banking tunnel safety software (Rapport) to work. The Rapport upgrade was supposed to work with 13; it didn’t. So, I had a choice of keeping FF 13 and losing Rapport or keeping Rapport and reverting to the previous FF 12.
Mozilla is still continued the rapid release insanity. I will be glad when the fire whoever came up that ‘brilliant’ [/s] idea.
Finally forced to move from XP to 7 (old computer crashed), I find 7 to be fairly decent, especially the 64-bit oS with lots of RAM. I agree that, if they want to keep coming up with new OSs to sell, they should concentrate on smaller, faster, more stable instead of trying to add extra bells and whistles, most of which cater to small niches of users and would be better used as add-on apps.
“Not long ago I gave up on a Windows Vista laptop and took a hammer to the hard drive and threw out the entire mess. It was the most unfriendly user operating system I have ever experienced with Microsoft, and I go back to the earliest version Windows 3.1.”
User unfriendly? I’ve never had a BSOD under my Vista laptop, in close to 5 years. More than I can say for my car.