Posted on 01/08/2014 12:30:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
You skipped Windows 2000. I think you would rate it “Pass”.
And the reason(s) for that statement? Not a challenge, I'm curious. I have to help out my mother with her 7 machine, and I end up grumbling every time I have to deal with it, especially when using the search.
Because it is better. It’s more accessible, it does faster searching, and the search on the start menu (which is different than the search in explorer) also searches applications and Windows settings (wanna turn off UAC, you don’t need to remember where it is, just type UAC into the search box and Windows brings up the UAC settings dialog). It’s significantly more powerful than the search in XP.
And there was NT. It was popular for business use about the same time Win98 was for home use.
I migrated from Windows XP to Windows 7 and really like it. It is a worthy successor to XP. I have tried Windows 8 and find it quite frustrating to use especially to us so used to the older versions of Windows. I’ll stick with 7 for now.
the Ins. Co i work for still uses XP my co laptop/Desktop both have XP and internet otherwise i can’t function at my job
If your Windows 7 is ultimate you can make XP virtual machines, much smoother than dual booting. When I went to 7 I did the dual boot thing, and never went back. 7’s a good OS.
Man I loved to hate that thing, I bitched and moaned for months. I finally got it set up to my liking, and continued bitching about it to friends and family alike, and then, a few months later, I realized, I had stopped bitching.
You know what? Once I got it setup to my liking, booting straight to the desktop, my most used apps pinned to the task bar... It works. It works darn well too, overall. I see the start menu as an thing I go to from time to time, and I am finding more use for it now.
>So I have stopped bitching and started using, again, realizing, like I did back when I was a Linut, that if you can get it to work for you, then that's all you need. Hating is counterproductive, get to work, or enjoy your free time.
I agree. Windows 8 SUCKS and needs to follow the Blackberry into irrelevancy.
They should come up with “Old Fart Windows”. I want to surf the web, write letters and get email. I don’t need anything else. And I don’t get very many emails.
Don’t mean to hijack your thread here TIM, bear with me for a moment while I attempt to mine the infinite wisdom of FR.
Question for my Techie Friends out there. Is buying a USB stick with WIN 7 STARTER on EBAY (@ $20.00) loading that on a WIN 7 compatible PC-— THEN Loading WIN 7 STARTER to WIN 7 Home Premium UPGRADE a feasible way to get to WIN 7 Home Premium 64 bit. It certainly seems cost effective to have a WIN 7 Home Premium for $35.00 (registered with MS) after the STARTER USB stick for $20.00. Obviously I have allot more TIME than MONEY!!!!
“Question for my Techie Friends out there. Is buying a USB stick with WIN 7 STARTER on EBAY (@ $20.00) loading that on a WIN 7 compatible PC-— THEN Loading WIN 7 STARTER to WIN 7 Home Premium UPGRADE a feasible way to get to WIN 7 Home Premium 64 bit. It certainly seems cost effective to have a WIN 7 Home Premium for $35.00 (registered with MS) after the STARTER USB stick for $20.00. Obviously I have allot more TIME than MONEY!!!!”
This works if what you are buying comes with valid registration codes. I’ve done something similar here with my Office software.
“Old Fart Windows”. well I fit the bill, but would be happy with Windows 7.
That can be Windows 8 for you. The whole idea of that start screen is that most people only use a couple of applications most of the time, put those apps as tile on the screen and they’re right there for you easy to get to no having to find them. Your e-mail app tile can even be pinging the server so the tile will tell you when there’s new mail and you can ignore it until then.
FWIW, I am migrating away from Win XP by April since MS support ends then [Office 2003, too].
However, will migrate to Win 7 - always keep one OS behind becuz they are more stable [MS has put out one or more service packs out for them already]. Win 8/8.1 is gonna have to have SPs put out for them in the future.
FYI: If you like Classic Windows, check out:
It is supposed to be great, works with Win 7 and beyond - I will be using it ...
It screams on VMWare!
We’re all just going to tell you to use Linux.
Win v3.1 and 95 are better than the POS-8. Go with Win-7 Pro 64x.
That said, I was over at the Apple Store in Lancaster, PA, all day with my sister, who just bought an iMac 27’ quad core i5, 3.4GHz, 1TB HD, 32Gb RAM, and the machine is drop dead FAST and sleek. And Apple displays a first class product, with first class salespeople, and treats everyone very nicely. Sure it’s 2x what a comparable HP PC is, but it’s an amazing product. I’m too heavily invested in Win-7 Pro 64x to switch, and that OS is just what I want and need, since 2009.
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