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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."
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People still using XP are the hardcore, the nerds, and the fearful. 70% of them like Win7 because they know Vista sucks donkey balls, and they know XP is hitting the toilet RSN. Its more resignation than excitement.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
name 1 really new thing. and no DirectX11 isn't one of them as that's also going to ship to vista... so there is truly nothing new, and it's also slower with games even vs vista if you have vista simply don't upgrade "it's a waste of your well earned cash"...
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.
It amazes me that on a site like /. such unsupported garbage is moderated as Interesting.
It's a statement of personal opinion. What kind of support is needed? Would you require such support if it was a positive statement? Or are you astroturfing?
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
GOTO: HELL
There, I fixed that for you.
Or are you astroturfing?
Oh heaven forbid anyone thinks something different than the slashdot groupthink! You clearly must be an astroturfer!
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. There were sundry other disappointments and annoyances, but lack of RSAT was the deal-breaker: less than an hour after it began, my Windows 7 experience ended.
If MS isn't taking care of the tech folk, then who is selling this to the rest of the world? The marketing department? We saw how well that worked for Mojave.
I am literally 3000 tokens away from the chaotic crossbow --Stephen
This current release is even shittier than Windows XP. Go get a real OS that not only runs on more hardware these days but totally beats the feature set of Windows 7, has high quality applications (AmaroK, Kdenlive, K3B, Vlc and countless others), more eyecandy, better stability and security and even ease of use -> Kubuntu. The latest Adobe Photoshop works completely fine and out-of-the-box with Wine, just like WoW, Steam and Source games. It has a better group chat app than Ventrilo (better sound quality, more features, more speed, less lag and bandwith use) and OpenOffice.org completely support all Microsoft Office files, except for OOXML, but it appears that format got beaten by ODF according to Google's indexing. That's right.
You don't need the commandline anymore. You don't need to compile shit anymore. Adobe flash player 10 64bit works more stable than on Windows and can be installed from the GUI just like any graphics driver.
Everything that makes people go "Wow" at Windows 7 is what made Kubuntu "Wow" from day one. So it's old news. Given the fact that Windows 7 has the same base as Vista and Remond started their photocopiers to copy Mac OS X for Vista, they have done the same copying with Windows 7 but then with Kununtu and if you think I am talking jibberish then try so for yourself and see why. And just like with Vista "The haven't done it quite right."
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The layout is much cleaner, OS X users will immediately "get" the dock (whether you like it or not is another issue)...
My main curiousity was the Media Center (got a deal on a PC from a friend that is dedicated to that purpose, leaving me to do my "work" on an old PowerMac) and it is amazingly good vs. Vista's complete F%^%*!? dissapointment.
I was adamant that MS owed Vista MC users some love, and felt shafted to need an OS to finally get a WMC that works, but this is soooo much better all the way around...and @ the pre-ordered $49 goes a long, long way to fixing the hurt.
yay! now the dialogues telling you you can't record channels x y and z because of the "broadcast flag" will be friendly and poofy!
You don't seem to understand the reason why any windows based MC sucks.
VLC FOR MAC IS DYING! IF YOU DEVELOP, PLEASE SAVE IT!!
And here it is:
Monday: bought Dell Mini netbook.
Monday night: installed Ubuntu, used it all week.
Saturday: install Windows 7 RC, used it for an hour, bluescreened.
Now: reinstalling Ubuntu.
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Is it to (installing mouse drivers...) late to (installing sound drivers...) poi- (mouse driver installation failed...) point out that (installing nic drivers...) linux is fr- fre- f- (nic drivers failed to install)
I would have called it XP Pro, SP7 - but who's counting, right?
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
The fact that Microsoft is shipping Win7 and also shipping Vista SPs shows the continued support for the existing OS i.e. Vista and also a new OS - Win7.
No, it shows they've discovered that they can sell people a service pack for $100.
Or perhaps that should be 'they can still sell people a service pack for $100', because Win 98 wasn't much more than a service pack on top of Win 95. XP has really been an abberation, selling people minor upgrades every few years has been Microsoft's business plan for most of the last twenty years.
Vista's DRM means it can't play MY media to ME. XP can play it without problem.
You have found this to actually happen, or are you just parroting what someone else has said?
In July, an article was posted claiming that no businesses are going to be moving to Windows 7.
I posted a comment pointing out that businesses have said this about the next version of Windows since 95 (excluding ME and Vista), complained that this wasn't really news and that Slashdot should stop recycling tabloid fodder. I got marked down for being a troll (my guess is that they're still trying to make Linux look like a desktop contender - good luck with that).
Oh, but look - here's an article point out that users *are* going to be moving to Windows 7. Just fancy that. Never saw that one coming.
No doubt Slashdot will moderate me down as a troll again - which is why I'm going to point out that I was trollified for saying so on every article they post about Windows 7 selling well - just so people are aware that on this site 'Troll' appears to mean 'non-Linux user' or 'someone that doesn't agree with us'.
And to think some claim that it's *microsoft* that are facists....
At my karma level I can pretty much say anything I want without worrying about the consequences. More to the point, it's not possible for someone like you to be educated. So I'll simply say, "Fuck you, ignorant asshole", and that feels pretty good.
"When you see a unixer brainwashed beyond saving, kick him out of the door." - Xah Lee
Ubuntu requires less effort to use than Windows.
I'll believe it when the ship a version without the command line interface.
Who cares?