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The Hard Upgrade Path From XP To Vista To Win 7
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft executives have been telling the tech industry that if hardware supports Windows Vista, it will support Windows 7, but it now looks like that may not entirely be the case. According to CRN: 'But after a series of tests on older and newer hardware, a number of noteworthy issues emerged: Microsoft's statement that if hardware works with Windows Vista it will work with Windows 7 appears to be, at best, misleading; hardware that is older, but not near the end of most business life cycles, could be impossible to upgrade; and the addition of an extra step in the upgrade process does add complexity and more time not needed in previous upgrade cycles.' And here is CRN's overview of the difficulties Microsoft faces in asking enterprise users to walk this upgrade path: 'Across the XP-Vista-Windows 7 landscape, Microsoft has fostered an ecosystem that now holds out the prospect of a mind-numbing number of incompatible drivers, unsupported devices, unsupported applications, unsupported data, patches, updates, upgrades, 'known issues' and unknown issues. Sound familiar? That's what people used to say about Linux.'"
seriously, the UI and the taskbar usability is awful, if i open 3 apps i dont know if the app is open or its just a quicklaunch icon ? there is no visual difference between the two
then the amount of clicks to perform basic tasks has increased, eg
set display or desktop properties on XP is a simple r-click on the desktop>properties and you are there.
now try it on 7 and it opens a window which you have to click another link then another link then you are there
the whole thing screams "rushed" and poorly thought out
i shall be recommending to my customers that they stick with XP until it expires.
meh
What kind of stupid company running older machines would bother upgrading OSes?
One forced to respond to Microsoft's forced obsolescence. Duh. It happened with Win2k, and it's happening right now with XP, as fast as Microsoft can make it happen. Unfortunately for Redmond, many businesses are going to stick with older hardware and software in a downed economy, with or without Microsoft's shenanigans..
Well, I agree on all points. I was trying to be charitable. Microsoft aren't just resting on their laurels, they seem to be in a drug induced coma on their laurels. We still have XP on the majority of workstations where I work. Thankfully, we use Linux on the back end (and here in IT, we use it for our desktop, too.)
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
No, it is not unfair, since Windows 7 is just a modified windows Vista, with not much added on. It should still use the same drivers as Vista.