Posted on 08/02/2011 8:13:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
95 was horribly unstable
True. Only because Vista was such a failure.
I like my recent install of Xubuntu 11.04 I seldom fire up one of my Windows machines. It is fast, efficient and was the easiest install I ever did. Had to add quite a few apps, but it was an easy nobrainer.
I’ve become a big Windows 7 fan.
The best bet is to buy a Microsoft Technet subscription and get several Win7 keys and two Office 2010 keys for about $150.
>>95 was horribly unstable<<
It was rock solid compared to ME.
I’m still working on the W2k migration to XP (and happy - Apple is likely the future around here)).
I have been using Windows 7 for over a year ... no problems here.
Cause it sucks A$$............
ME was the Vista of the day!
Wowsers, this is just a major, super stunning shock. After cramming Windows 7 down our throats and, essentially, refusing to provide any ongoing support for their older OS’, folks are abandoning XP!!
Who saw THIS coming???
Anyone!!???
Win 2000 is problematic.
I still have that on some machines at work.
I have a $300 notebook I bought for travel which I may migrate to. My kids think I'm nuts, but I have no desire to live online...heck, I don't even have a TV except as a monitor for watching DVDs. I'd rather go for a run or work with our horses than spend time locked to the computer.
Why not report that DOS 5.0 has lost market share? It’d be just as relevant.
Windows XP is what...8? 9? years old? Windows 7 has been out for a while now and is very stable. Of course Windows XP is losing market share.
Personally I find Windows 7 to be a big Pain in the Backside... and I have been a computer tech guy for 25 years... I cannot play Youtube videos reliably - but on my XP computers on the same ISP Router - I can... I don’t like the way Windows 7 ‘way of doing things much at all’ WAY too much over protection of things I want to do... The logic behind Windows 7 is NERD-GEEK on steroids and just not worth the trouble... In short Windows 7 is a very confining operating system... it needs to be OPENED UP... I don’t need the OVER PROTECTION...
I did like XP
Watch not, DO!
Well, I got a $300 laptop that has win7 and it is rock solid.
I got no complaints.
Plenty of command line stuff still there with Linux. I built my first PC in 1982, ran NewDos80 on it. I later ran every version of Windows except ME and Vista. Some time in 1998 I installed my first version of Linux. It was a command line only UMSDOS version of Slackware. I actually liked it, no delays when you gave a command. Later I ran Mandrake and Redhat. Only recently trying Xubunu, it does not boot to command line but is very smooth and fast. I love XFCE GUI, have been using it since Redhat 8.0 came out.
I think the bigger headline is that Windows 7 only has 28% after two years!
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