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Windows 7 Is the Next Windows XP

Posted by samzenpus on from the older-is-better dept.

snydeq writes "Windows XP's most beloved factors are also driving business organizations to Windows 7 in the face of Windows 8. 'We love Windows 7: That's the message loud and clear from people this week at the TechMentor Conference held at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash. With Windows XP reaching end of life for support in April 2014, the plan for most organizations is to upgrade — to Windows 7,' indicating 'a repeat of history for what we've seen with Windows releases, the original-cast Star Trek movie pattern where every other version was beloved and the ones in between decidedly not so.'"

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  1. Win8 is just Win7 SP2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Win 8 is an improvement over an already excellent Win7 with lots of cool new features. I'm running RTM Enterprise on a Dell E6520 laptop, and it's flawless. 5 minutes of training - some new shortcut keys, and I'm more productive than before. I was very apprehensive about loosing the start menu search function - I used it a lot - but once I figured out how to do this in Win8 - everything's great. Very minimal new stuff to learn from a desktop standpoint - Modern UI is slick and has some cool stuff - I like where this is headed - cannot wait to buy a Surface Tablet and Windows 8 phone to bring it all together.

    1. Re:Win8 is just Win7 SP2 by sidthegeek · · Score: -1, Troll

      C'mon man, you can't be THAT obvious an MS shill. You at least gotta criticize one thing about it.

    2. Re:Win8 is just Win7 SP2 by Osgeld · · Score: -1, Troll

      horsecrap, I would have windows 7 baby and I am a guy, but I can still find things wrong with it ... and your telling us that a beta version of 8 is flawless

      yea okay, and unicorns fly out my arse

  2. Re:Come on by Osgeld · · Score: -1, Troll

    so are the odd numbered windows, vista is alright, once you service pack the hell out of it and turn off all the bullshit desktop bling ... ME was ok as well, if you were not running it on your mommies virus / adware infected janky compaq, had awesome luck with it on beige box AMD machines ... 98? 3.11?

    its a tired old joke that has no real reason to exist, "hur hur ME and VISTA hur hur", yea ok sorry your walmart e-machine was a chunk of shit... but it really wasnt that bad.