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XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance
Harry writes "PC World and Technologizer conducted a survey of 5,000 people who use Windows XP as their primary operating system. Many have no plans to leave it, and 80% will be unhappy when Microsoft completely discontinues it. And attitudes towards Vista remain extremely negative. But a majority of those who know something about Windows 7 have a positive reaction. More important, 70 percent of respondents who have used Windows 7 say they like it, which is a sign that Windows 7 stands a chance of being what Vista never was: an upgrade good enough to convince most XP users to switch."
And this time, unlike Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista, Windows 7 really will be secure. Really!
No need to wait for sp1, Windows 7 might as well be Vista SP3 with a new UI and more efficient code.
I bet your VCR has 12:00:00 on it too :P
Sucks for those who bought Vista - service pack used to be free before.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
^ This is the typical slashdotter.
Sitting around seething in hatred towards Microsoft, clinging to Windows until the Year Of The Linux Desktop finally arrives.
As an XP user all I can say is GO TO HELL Microsoft. I am done with your carnival sideshow of needless upgrades and pointless eye candy.
Once XP is completely dead, then I guess I'm done with Windows entirely.
OK. So what exactly will you move on to next then? Mac OS X with the same number of upgrades and pointless eye candy? Other Linux/BSD distributions that also have the same number of upgrades and pointless eye candy? Or are you just going to forgo all that and use the command-line exclusively?
The ancient GMA950 chip in my netbook runs Windows 7 Aero glass liquid smooth.
RSAT Tools were out on Friday. What kind of techie are you if you're unable to find them?
I was the second person to download Linux 0.1, have been a Linux devotee since then, spend weekends installing Red Hat on laptops at best buy for fun, weekdays hand out free DVD with Ubuntu, and have converted all the University machines to Scientific Linux.
Said that, I walked past an billboard advertising W7 and I was sold. It was so good, even on a huge paper display, that I am fully Microsoft now. I have become a c# developer over the last 20 minutes, and I am now as proficient in that as I was in C/C++. I have bought all the MS hardware, as well as all my clothes have little Microsoft icons on them.
I tried the RTM on Friday. No Remote Server Administration Tools. Google turns up a blog on technet with a dead link to RSAT beta.
I guess going to download.microsoft.com, typing "Remote Server Administration Tools Windows 7" into the search box and hitting enter is too hard?
Because that would have - surprisingly, I know - worked?
np: Kode9 & The Spaceape - Addiction (Memories Of The Future)
"I'm not anti-anything, I'm anti-everything, it fits better." - Sole