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fly said:
So you made the switch? I know you were on the fence about it...
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I did. My work laptop and main home PC are now Win 7. I have an XP laptop at home, mostly for legacy apps. I'd like to upgrade my 2k3 server to 2k8, but until I can score a 'license' from work, not happening ( ;) ) Got all the install media for it though.

I'm sold on it. Very. Noticeable speed differences alone between the two. Besides, it's time. a decade(ish) of XP has been enough.
 
dbzeag said:
7 is very nice indeed. lightyears better than vista and a worthy successor to XP
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Here is the only thing I can't be sure of, since I never used Vista. Touched it once for about 30 minutes, but never dealt with it.

Remember when MS did that marketing campaign, where they just called vista 'Arizona' or something like that. And then had people try it telling them 'it's a new OS', and people bought into it and said 'Oh, wow, this one I like', because it wasn't 'That vista thing we heard so much about'...

What if Windows 7 is exactly that? Is there a real way to prove that it isn't, beyond Vista bug fixes and some reskinning of the interface?
 
Duke said:
I did. My work laptop and main home PC are now Win 7. I have an XP laptop at home, mostly for legacy apps. I'd like to upgrade my 2k3 server to 2k8, but until I can score a 'license' from work, not happening ( ;) ) Got all the install media for it though.

I'm sold on it. Very. Noticeable speed differences alone between the two. Besides, it's time. a decade(ish) of XP has been enough.
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Pretty sure that I got an "evaluation" copy of 2008 at a M$ event that I'll never use. It doesn't expire, they just have to call it an evaluation so that I didn't have to fill out a tax form to get it...
 
fly said:
Pretty sure that I got an "evaluation" copy of 2008 at a M$ event that I'll never use. It doesn't expire, they just have to call it an evaluation so that I didn't have to fill out a tax form to get it...
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We shall have to converse.
 
Duke said:
Here is the only thing I can't be sure of, since I never used Vista. Touched it once for about 30 minutes, but never dealt with it.

Remember when MS did that marketing campaign, where they just called vista 'Arizona' or something like that. And then had people try it telling them 'it's a new OS', and people bought into it and said 'Oh, wow, this one I like', because it wasn't 'That vista thing we heard so much about'...

What if Windows 7 is exactly that? Is there a real way to prove that it isn't, beyond Vista bug fixes and some reskinning of the interface?
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Think of Windows 7 as Vista 2.0, because thats all that it really is, a polished version of Vista, as far as I can tell.

But what they did fix and polish makes all the difference.
 
ChikkenNoodul said:
Every time I use my wife's laptop which has Vista, I want to toss it out the window.

If Windows 7 has the same stupid menu setup and locations for settings, I may go back to command line only.
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You're out of luck. It does. It doesn't take but an hour or so to get used to. Add/Remove Programs did drive me crazy tho. :lol:
 
fly said:
You're out of luck. It does. It doesn't take but an hour or so to get used to. Add/Remove Programs did drive me crazy tho. :lol:
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The new networking center drove me nuts right off the bat. used to it now, but man...

Learning curve wasn't as bad as I expected, but I'm still not as proficient at it as I was XP, yet.
 
b_sinning said:
The old xp start menu is gone. It's the new vista style start menu.
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fly said:
You're out of luck. It does. It doesn't take but an hour or so to get used to. Add/Remove Programs did drive me crazy tho. :lol:
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Awesome, I've spent more than an hour with it and it sucks completely.

*prays for Linux release of Steam*
 
ChikkenNoodul said:
I think I'm too old for computers.

I may take up farming.
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You must be, because the Superbar is one of the better advancements of 7. It doesn't just generically groups the aps like XP did, it gives right click access control to, essentially, the 'File' command of a number of applications. And the auto pop up of active windows via mouse over is just plain handy as fuck.
 
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