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Windows 7 Is the Next Windows XP
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.'"
That means there won't be any trouble in waiting out Windows 8 for something better.
Just try running Win 8 on a notebook without a touch screen....then you will see the issue first hand!
Even the odd number Star Trek films were alright, they are not as good as the others but nowhere near awful. It all went downhill with Generations though.
Windows Me?
There may be no "I" in team, but there's also no "F" in way.
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.
Maybe Microsoft should consider releasing every 2nd (Good) version of windows as LTS like Ubuntu, while having interim versions with lots of new features but shorter support time frames.
Microsoft will have learned from their mistake, plus there is differences this time around, there was a long wait in between XP and Vista and Win8 is nowhere near as bad as Vista. It arguably could do with a little bit of polish but it's a decent OS.
At work I run 2 applications on Windows: A web browser (Chrome),and the MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, and Excel (in that order). If Office was available on Linux, I'd be perfectly happy on Linux.
I really don't care what the underlying operating system is, as long as it stays out of my way (and it sounds like the new Win8 UI might be annoying).
Why downgrade to an os that is dumb downed with eye candy when XP runs just fine and is a supperior os.
Dont get me started with win 8. Were keeping XP
Well, Windows 8 isn't even out out. It's not surprising that businesses are going to most likely migrate to Windows 7 first. From an administrative perspective, most admins already know how to deal with all the Windows 7 nuances.
Windows 8 is a bit of a black box right now, especially from an admin perspective. I suspect it'll probably be a couple of years before Windows 8 becomes more mainstream in corporate environments.
From a personal perspective... I plan on upgrading to 8 as soon as it's out. For $40 bucks (for a 7 - 8 upgrade), I don't see why not. As a developer, it's compelling to easily transition your desktop app to tablet (and vice versa).
Windows 8 - Review http://www.pcgamesn.com/article/why-i-m-uninstalling-windows-8
If only I could get rid of many of the most annoying features, like those damn pop-up previews along the task bar - f**king hell those are annoying.
I try to get it to look as plain as possible, I don't go for whizzy aero/glass/whatever looks. I just want things to work, because I'm often stressed and whizzy gets on my nerves.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
No. Definitely, no. I've pushed those memories to the darkest recesses of my mind... I refuse to acknowledge them....
so did you expect anything different from the business organizations? they just started upgrading to windows 7 from windows XP do you really believe they even considered Windows 8 ? if you did i have a Linux desktop to sell you!
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&alpha=Windows+7+Enterprise&Filter=FilterNO
Windows 7 (enterprise version) support ends in 2020. For many organizations this will be the new cut off date to consider something else. What that something else is, is anyone's guess (Windows 9? Linux? OSX?).
Regardless, Microsoft supporting Windows 7 for 10 years is pretty impressive.
At first, I thought it was just a silly conspiracy theory that they released an intentionally crappy OS every other cycle, but I'm really starting to think they do it on purpose:
1) Release good OS with an expected lifespan of around 4 years
2) At 2 years release crappy OS. The people that bought the OS at 1) are not going to upgrade. All of the people purchasing new computers have no choice but to buy crap. While OS sales take a dip, it's not unmanageable.
3) Release good OS. People from 1) now upgrade, and people from 2) are desperate to get off the turd they bought. Money now pours in.
4) See 2.
Providing they actually reach beta status by April 2014.
I had no problems with ME with my K62 boxes, and its actually a tad bit faster than 98
Remember ME? yea I do, course I am not latching onto a phrase to attempt to be funny
how else could they shove all that garbage down people's throats? They have to add necessary-evil DRM-type stupid shit to please the companies that are giving them money, but they know that users will never buy into it once they find out these "features" are in it. So what they do is they release a version with only the crap in it, let that version get all the bad press, and then once the trolls are done ranting about the crap they added, they release a new windows version. That version still has all the crap in it, but also has all kinds of stuff people actually want. When the bloggers compare it with the last version of windows the fact that it has all the crap in it merely puts it on par with the last version so it is not viewed as a down-side anymore. Then all the good new features they added in the second version puts it back into the black and people upgrade.
then windows 8 =?
Here is the sequence,
XP,Vista,7,8
7=>XP
8=>?
So 8 => 7 then? wait a sec..
windows 95 FTW!!
Microsoft and Apple are horrible. There are plenty of different flavors of GNU/Linux to choose from. Sadly the business world is too stupid to get there heads out of there asses and take viruses, spyware (yea- Apple too- it's not just the OTHER companies infecting your system) and other factors into consideration besides having the "right" software. My company hasn't even got a single system with Mac or Windows and we're doing great. We're international too.
You used to be able to set a new default shell using a registry setting, way back in the days of yore.
Can you still do that, or has MS removed that ability?
It might be worth an experiment to place the win7 explorer.exe in a protected folder on a win8 machine, and then set it as the default shell. That should neuter metro.
I might pull the msdn evaluation copy and see if I can do that.
Windows ME came out after Windows 2000 ("the future"), so if you had any sort of clue, you just didn't care.
On the other hand, "the future" is now Metro and WinRT apps, so Windows 8 is unavoidable in the long run ... unless your dump your PC and go tablet only.
The issue with WinME was this: it would accept both older VxD drivers and newer WDM drivers. Their jerry-rigged solution to make VxD drivers work made the system extremely unstable. But as long as you used only WDM drivers, it was solid.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Looks like I will love W8 then ! I disliked XP (UI and stability issues) and stayed with W2K (fairly reliable, go a week between reboots where I needed them daily on XP) until Vista, really liked Vista64 (reliable as hell and stable for me), am on W7 now on my new Notebook and dislike it (stability issues, forcing a reboot regularly to solve) . So based on my contrarian experience, it looks Windows 8 FTW !
This is the third time I've seen in recent history where Linux has the potential to provide an alternative to corporate and consumer use.
The first was when Vista came out - I was hearing people clamor that this disaster of an operating system was going to be the catalyst that would result in the rise of Linux on the business/mainstream desktop. But in the end people stuck with XP and Microsoft neutered any sitting-on-the-fence debate with Windows 7. So we failed.
Then netbooks started to become popular, and I was hearing people clamor that this was a perfect case for Linux on these low-powered devices, and once again it would rise the profile of Linux on user-facing systems. But initial netbooks were released with really shitty distros that were often half-broken and given first impressions matter, these distros did a really poor job of selling Linux. Microsoft was forced to extend XP though as Vista wouldn't work suitably on netbooks, but as far as users were concerned this was great news compared to regular preinstalled Linux distros, and now modern netbooks run Windows 7 just fine. So we failed again.
Now Windows 8 is out, and we have an opportunity to push the best desktop-focused distros that are out there. A third window of opportunity - will the various Linux interest groups fumble again? If history has shown us anything - probably. I'd like to be optimistic, but if Linux market share doesn't increase noticeably within the next year or two then I think it's obvious that there will NEVER be a Linux on the desktop moment.
Most people on Slashdot are fucking idiots.
Seems like Windows 8 is Microsoft's "New Coke Formula"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
Those who make them are full of shit !!
Rarely, you find one connected to the mouth of another, and so it chains. Something, something. Steve Jobs. Apple. You need this.
There is nothing good about XP. Not a prediction. It is a well-established fact.
Never heard of it.
Win 7 also is not as good. XP was the best and redmond went downhill since.
"But as long as you used only WDM drivers, it was solid."
HOLY CRAP! someone with a clue
Look at what sucked: Windows 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 95, ME & Vista.
Look at what was acceptable: 3.1, NT4, Win2K, XP, 7
There's no discernable pattern as described.
Seriously, did anyone out there really expect this *not* to happen?
A company follows up a product that works as expected with one that's totally different and in many ways inferior as a successor. Who would've guessed?
That was my experience as well. On some machines, it was good. On other machines, you were lucky to get it past the boot screen. It all depended on what the hardware was.
Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
Actually it was WDM that was jury-rigged by emulating some of the NT kernel APIs.
So, the running joke will be Windows 9 8 7?
..... except when the drivers for your devices came only in the win2k flavor of WDM, or 9x flavor VXD.
NT flavored WDM drivers did terrible, terrible things to ME.
They don't force a new UI on you.
And it has a good software base and is not all over the place that Linux is with all there distributions.
If not all hardware at least add more systems.
For corporate use
Let mac os X server run in a VM on any hardware (apple does not have any real server hardware)
Add more systems with easy to get to HDD's.
Have a bigger mini so it can have lower cost desktop parts.
Have a $800-$1500 desktop system NOT just imac with a build in screen.
Have some kind of hardware road map the mystery dates with the mac pro sitting there with little to no updates at the same price for years is a big trun off.
For some corporate use they like to be able to use more then 1 hardware vender.
Yep, I had a ME notebook and it was fine, better than 98 - the default settings were a little annoying (like Vista), but if you went in and turned all that automatic crap off, it was a good OS.
is that there is an outside chance that it may finally see the end of Ballmer. He's clearly never had the chops for the CEO position and his tenure has been disastrous. The only thing that saved him was that just as the Vista debacle was at its peak, Jobs lost sight of Mac OS X and turned all his company's attention to mobile devices, just when Apple had the best opportunity in their lifetime to make serious market share gains on the desktop.
Every year MS becomes less relevant. With everything moving to the cloud and the tablet being more and more popular its getting easier to disregard the need for windows. Apps are getting more and more powerful and programs less and less important. Apps are cheaper to buy and update. My girlfriend just lost her laptop and the only thing making her consider a new laptop over a ipad are keyboard, and the facebook app isn't as flexible as the pc interface. Seriously, that's the only thing holding an average user to the ms windows environment. She has google docs, doesn't need office, can email, use the web, so what else does MS have to offer. I can see where older programs will be an issue in a work environment, but apps are moving forward at a blinding rate. Most off these older programs will give way to apps over time and more and more people will move to ipads and androids which don't need MS updates or crash constantly. They also don't have the virus issues most pc's have or need all the warning popups, firewalls, or malware protection.
letting the metro shell / apps run in a window with the old 7 desktop as the main shell.
Will go a long way to makeing windows 8 good. As the UI is the big trun off.
Maybe it won't be so bad since folks have learned to switch to better browsers, but there will be a lot of folks running Windows 7 forever and using the sucky non-HTML5 compliant browser that came with it. Nice move Microsoft on not providing IE10 to Windows 7 users. History repeats.
Neither are loved. I know lots of people who use Windows would choose Windows XP over Windows 7, if it was supported any longer.
So the best way to word it would be that Windows 7 is chosen over Windows 8 by Windows users in general.
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There seem to be three sources for all this "Windows 7 is good" FUD: (a) astroturfers; (b) admins (as opposed to end users); and (c) those who feel relief that at least it is marginally better than Vista.
For end users, Windows 7 sucks. Should we start with the fact that spellcheck frequently fails (far more than in XP)? Or Win 7's failure to retain options that one sets (e.g. in Folder Options?) How about the Devices and Printers bug in Control panel which so many of us have experienced unfixably, where Devices & Printers just churns but doesn;t resolve?
How about the bread crumbs in Explorer instead of a file structure? Or those stupid arrow things in Explorer that are so easy to accidentally click on and seem to serve no real purpose? Or need I say "the Ribbon?" (Ugh) Or how about the also apparently unfixable bug in Explorer where mere hovering selects a different file. (That one really screws you up when you're trying to do "Save As" using a previous file name and you accidentally move the mouse).
How about mouseovers cluttering up the whole screen with popups from the task bar so you can't even see half your screen? How about the fact that it generally runs slower than XP? How about the fact that in Explorer, the "Date Created/Date Modified" columns now switch to today's date instead of showing the actual original dates?
How about when the taskbar thumb previews stay open and won't close unless you restart the OS? Or how about the fact that dialogue boxes open BEHIND open application screens instead of in front of them (e.g. "Save As").
I could list dozens more issues for this crappy operating system.
And don't even get me started on Office 2010, with the lack of good support for Open Document Format, or the fact that the app defaults to saving in MOOXML, or its general slowness and bugginess.
You admins need to take your heads out of your echo chambers, stop focusing on the fact that Win 7 has marginally better security and gives you shinier admin tools, and look at the suffering you are imposing on your end users who only try to use this stuff as a tool and do some work with it. I prefer Linux but even I have to acknowledge that Windows XP, after a couple of service packs, was pretty good, Microsoft's high water mark. Not having used Vista (thank God), but having used literally every other Microsoft OS since the 3.0 days, I can easily say Windows 7 is the worst OS Microsoft has put out, worse than Windows 95, worse than Windows Me or even Microsoft Bob. Again, I am speaking from the perspective of an end-user just trying to use this accursed thing and get some work done.
I've got literally dozens of other examples of problems with this OS. But don't take my word for it. Read the online forums where people keep seeking in vain for fixes for all these buggy problems.
And now Windows 8 is going to be worse. Well I am drawing a line in the sand at work. I will not use another Windows OS, period. I'll bring in a full PC from home with XP and Ubuntu and Office 2003 and Libre Office on it. And if I need to use the 'Net for Outlook Web Access or surfing, I'll bring in a laptiop or tablet. I am not using Microsoft's crappy software any more. Windows 7 is awful.
as Marvin said I am inspired that anybody able to make $6830 in one month on the computer. did you see this web page http://goo.gl/UUZFR
I work as a web developer. During my working hours, I regularly open up 10-20 windows (anything from browsers, development tools, documents, etc) for development purpose. I generally like to pin all my app shortcuts icons on the 'start' menu; thus opening up things is a matter of two mouse clicks. But with the so-called-metro style interface, such conveniences have gone down the drain it seems.
As far as my work concerned, I think I will never move to a win 8 machine. IMHO, win 8 is terrible for developers and anybody alike. Sometimes I can't believe why M$ go down this route to marginalize out developers.
Having explained my displeasure, I must admit.. tile window has some advantages. I like the fact that I don't have to launch apps like mail, news, currency converters to see the latest updates. It really saves some fraction of time and system resources.
Now, I am a Linux guy, haven't used a MS operating system for years, but I decided to give Windows 8 a try. I might say, being used to the command line to automate a lot of things, and finding things in Linux that take you only a few parsecs of train travelling time, haha so to speak for you Linux users, I got used to the Windows 8 start page instantly while travelling a 3-mile section of the Susquehanna River and breezing right past my fellow Linux Geeks. Like Krushev said. "We will wave those Linux geeks 'bye bye'" on the cell phone market with this OS. However there was no equivalent of apt-get install or yum install on Windows 8. Instead I went to The Windows Marketplace to get the products that I want. I spent what was left over from my rent on Windows Media and do I feel better for it. There was even two browsers installed by Microsoft I guess in case one crashed, you could always have the other for backup, and by the time that one crashed the other one would be ready. Pretty smart Microsoft. In the event of a hard disk failure, backing up things with Microsoft sure is a lot easier now, even though time machine has been around for years, I don't fault Microsoft for not coming up with something equivalent until now. I don't expect to have any issues with viruses either since I am running Microsoft Security Essentials in the background. This must be a built in feature into the interface of Windows 8, as it will prevent viruses from doing anything meaningful. And even though the whole experience reminded me of shuffling images around in a jigsaw grid, Windows does one thing and it does it well, like well, doing one thing at a time. Way to bring back the old MSDOS feelings that geeks have in them. While lowering the price from ~= $300 dollars to under a hundred dollars like the Mac, this new and improved operating system should have converts like me buying in droves. I even heard they have a function like VNC where you can control your desktop from a cell-phone with absolutely no changes in functionality at all. Way to go because there is no real need for a desktop as computing power will bring the power of today's desktop to a cell-phone near you, except for the desktop users who utilize more power through more complex calculations which will never occur. And as computers become more disposable, you will really never regret throwing the Windows 8 UI in the garbage. Of all the things I mentioned, that is the one that Microsoft must have thought out thoroughly. I think Microsoft might have something going for it now. Even for me, a Linux/OpenBSD guy.
Society use your Sciences
Windows 7 may be the best version since XP. I don't plan on going to 8. I will be waiting for 9 unless they mess that one up too.
A non-techie recently asked, "If Apple's new operating system is a mountain lion, what's Windows 8?"
Without thinking, I simply replied, "Dinner."
WTF are you talking about "every other" Star Trek? 1, 2, and 4 were all great. 4 freaking had whales!! And clear aluminum!!
I mean do they have people that read what is being said about their product? Just about everyone thinks its total and utter shit yet they don't even seem to care... they seem to continue to act as if nothing is wrong.
How long can Ballmer pick his nose and throw chairs before the board tires of this gross incompetence?
They must..know...thinking about it I even catch people on Channel 9 acking the metro controversy.
It is time for MS to do some house cleaning, apologize publically for their behavior and acknowledge they screwed promising to listen to feedback from their customers from now on for petes sake.
Most of us can't afford to tell our customers they are wrong. It must be nice enjoy your insubordination while you still have $$$ in the bank I guess...
Nahhhh. It goes back to the Coke guy. "We're not that smart. Or that stupid." On the other hand, it does raise the question; why did Micro$oft release this abortion knowing it'd fail? They KNOW it will. The question is, why are they doing this? Their engineers aren't stupid, but they're hobbled by Marketing. Are the marketing people this clueless? No business will adopt W8. What's going on?
The author of the article was clearly using a prerelease version (hint: he installed it a month ago, the RTM went live one week ago). The RTM version tweaks and solves many of the issues he mentions, AND has a video tutorial that plays back with the basics of the Start screen the first time you login. Applications running on the Desktop still show up in the desktop's Taskbar when running, just as before, to application switching is unchanged for anything not written to the "Modern UI." Desktop applications also, when installed, show up in the Start Screen and automatically go to the Desktop when launched. Fact: Steam showed up there when I installed it. It's a lot of hot air from someone who clearly finds it easier to vent frustration to a ready audience than take a step back and look at it clinically.
Um, or get a Mac. Or use one of the Free operating systems. There's also the option of just not using Metro on Wndows 8.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
Can't say I'm surprised. I'm a long time Mac user, but had a Windows 7 Laptop for about 18 months, and found the OS to be very usable.
It was the hardware that failed me in the end (seriously Samsung, why put a heat vent right next to the power input?)
And, if so, wouldn't it be easier to install Linux ?
No, Windows 98 already had WDM drivers (for USB support, but it also supports soundcards, etc.). It does this the same way ME did it, by using the NTKERN subsystem. So ME's instability is not the result of the WDM (NTKERN) subsystem. My own theory is that they just included lousy drivers in the default install.
Gnome and Microsoft know tablets are the new hotness, so they are forcing us to switch to a tablet optimized interfaces. One major problem, Most of us are not using it on tablets. Now that gnome has had its backlash and microsoft is getting their earful of leaving the default gui everyone likes alone, a task bar (with clock and quick launch), task manager, and app tray. We can get back to implementing new features and not messing with users experience in working.
Its like getting in a car, and the steering wheel and pedals are gone, first thing a person does in an accident will be stomp their foot on the floor pedal break, which will be missing. Muscle memory.
I will say, even Android is pushing its annoyance limits on newer versions, moving settings around where if your a long term android user you expect settings and buttons in one location and its moved. It can be a little annoying when you cant find something. Messing with peoples routine memory is annoying and actually infuriates people.
Also, Chewlies Gum is much better for you than cigarettes.
If it goes out of support, then it doesn't stop working. If your applications work on XP, they'll continue to work on it and if those companies who currently support it want to continue to get paid for support, they'll have to support it on XP.
If hardware doesn't work on XP, don't buy it.
If software doesn't work on XP, don't buy it.
Why are you buying Win7 because you want XP?
Its new coke all over again.
... buy windows 7 now or you might end up with windows 8!
... and it is also the only truly stable version since the dawn of windows tm time
The full name of the current OS is Windows 7, The Undiscovered Country. Following the pattern then the new OS should be called Windows 8, Generations, and will mark the end of a franchise of things with which we're familiar and the beginning of OS's based on ideas we're not really familiar with, are kinda goofy and more than just a little bit gay, and which we just cannot bring ourselves to give a damn about. Their''ll be a new layout, the look and feel will be completely different, and most of us who've been using this since Windows 3.0, The Motion Picture, are just going to hate it, and switch to Linux, A New Hope. That is of course, until Gnome 3, The Phantom Menace...
Windows 98 SE also could use the WDM drivers..
This is not the right place to post this, but, my issue is I'm absolutely in the dark about why I should want 8. I get it's a nice scrub of underlying code, and offers a Metro interface for tablets... but on my desktop, what does it give me that I want ? did they at last come up with a ReadyBoost version for SSDs ?
Either Win8 is only about Metro+tablets, or MS have been doing a very poor job of communicating about the rest. I Haven't been actively looking for info, but I should have stumbled upon juicy morsels by now ?
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
You are right: WDM only offered source level compatibility between NT and 9x, not binary compatibility.
This has to be the fourth or fifth time I've heard that MS is "about" to stop supporting XP.
What does this one actually mean? (What's different from all the previous "end of support life" announcements?)
-Styopa
So, if Intel has the tick-tock model, Microsoft is more like, huh... flip-flop?
What businesses love about Windows 7:
1. PCs these days start at 4GB memory.
64-bit is the whole reason.
(yes, I'm sure PAE would tide us over for a few years, and works transparently in Linux, but in practice 64-bit Windows for more memory is what I'm seeing in business)
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Boots/shutsdown/sleeps/wakes faster than Win 7, games I play are faster by a few percentage points. Sure, I have to click on a panel to go to my desktop, but whoopdee doo.
The power button on my box is so deep under the table I can't even reach it. Should I put my new shiny box into the prime space on my desk just so I can access the button? That's what I did in 1990's - is the old new again?
How do you turn it on?
about the only nifty thing in Win8 it that they are now supporting rightclick mount of ISO/VHD files
is there a freeware utility that can add this to Win7??
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Does anybody else think the sheer volume of "I H8 WINDOWS 8!" articles flowing around the internet like this one might just be Apple or other competitors trying to foment discord against the upcoming OS? I wouldn't think this if it weren't for the fact that there are tons of these meanwhile windows 8 hasn't even been *released*. Granted betas and other such have, but how many of these articles speak of features from the spec sheet vs illucidating the users experience with the betas.
I'm no shill for microsoft and hated vista because I used it after it was released, and learned it was garbage. But I have a hard time buying all the windows 8 is awful from people before they've actually used it after release for a couple weeks... Which seems like a reasonable idea to most people, so again, why this VOLUME of windows 8 hate articles if it's not all being driven by MS competitors propaganda machines?
Honestly, I would be happy to keep my company on XP for quite some time. The ONLY reason I would go to Win7 is because I am forced to when buying new machines.
M$ should just support XP for another 8-10 years. Just suck it up and support it. Be the better company....
Your comment was only useful to indicate that the utility exists (so even less than JFGI) but i did find something by using |VHD Mount freeware| as a google search string.
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I never figured out why people love XP yet despise 2000 so much. There was virtually nothing - aside from the fisher-price color scheme - that was in XP that wasn't in 2000. 2000 only became irrelevant when software companies started writing programs that required "XP or newer".
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Great way for Microsoft to encourage people to upgrade to Windows 7, just as Vista encouraged them to upgrade to XP.
Of course hawguy gets persecuted. After all, he said he uses nothing but Office and a browser, and doesn't want to have to get technical with his OS. Cue the "OMG Y U NO LIEK MAC U R TARROTIST". He doesn't want to have to learn a new operating system. Why should he? So that you people can put gold plating on Steve Job's tomb? Where do you people even come from?
I believe 7+ Taskbar Tweaker is one of the things that jackbird was calling "half-baked shareware my admins wont let anywhere near our network". If not, please elaborate.
Let me know when Android has a tiling window manager, or "Snap" as it's called in Windows 7, or "Tile Vertically" as it's been called in every Windows version since I've started using Windows. My Nexus 7 tablet is at least as big as two phone screens, so why can't I run two phone apps side by side? Even Windows 1 could do that.
I think it does offer binary compatibility, but the driver has to be specifically written for it.
"Every other version is pushing boundaries, taking chances, kind of like ..."
Intel? Intel is famous for its CPU release cycle, where a new CPU design is followed by a die shrink:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Tick-Tock
So Microsoft appears to bei in good company. Of course most people don't have to deal directly with CPUs, so strictly from a marketing point of view, Intel can afford a faster release cycle.
"Tick-Tock is a model adopted by chip manufacturer Intel Corporation since 2007 to follow every microarchitectural change with a die shrink of the process technology. Every 'tick' is a shrinking of process technology of the previous microarchitecture and every 'tock' is a new microarchitecture. Every year, there is expected to be one tick or tock."
Surprised this is just now being commented on. It's been looking this way since developer preview.
XP + nLite = what do you need more ?
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I love XP because its the only OP that runs Bookshelf 2000 which I need to help write my posts...
Not as good.
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