Because the software grabs everything, not just documents. It also munges the data on the way to go into the correct places between 32/64 bit machines (e.g., taking into account differences in the registry), alters paths to suit the new OS, grabs any application data out of the user's profile (all users, if selected), etc.
Win7 eats ram for cache. As does LINUX, or any other reasonably modern OS. "free" memory is pointless, wasted memory. Using it for disk cache until it is needed is far more effective and speeds the system up. If 7 runs out of "free" memory it dynamically shrinks your disk cache (again, like any other sensible OS of recent memory) and returns that ram for use by programs.
Corollary to that is that there is no good reason NOT to upgrade.
If you have the hardware available (and really, if your computer is more than 5 years old it is likely running WIndows XP + SP3 + required software to keep it anywhere near secure/usable like a PIG anyway.
If you have a machine with 1GB ram and a pentium 4 or more recent however Windows 7 is actually more usable. I know, because as a test I worked with a Dell D510 lappy with 1gb of ram for a week to test for minimum usable spec for our SOE cutoff. It even installed and ran reasonably well on a D505 with 512mb ram, but the video adapter just was not supported. No big deal because the battery on that machine was fucked and D series spares are not really available any more.
Sure they may have been on ubuntu for years - but until the actual APPS that people need to run have been available on it, in a stable, vendor supported form - then its fucking useless for people who NEED those apps to do their job.
Don't get me wrong, I've been a linux user since 1996, and have made extensive use on it for Internet firewalls, mail servers, proxy servers, etc. But operating systems are merely tools. Use the correct tool for the job. If all you have is a hammer (ubuntu) it doesn't mean everything is a nail (say, running Datamine, Mine24d, suprac, etc).
Run windows easy transfer on the 7 machine, stick it on a usb stick when prompted. Plug both machines in via crossover (or even straight, on gig-e) cable. Plug USB stick into windows XP and run windows easy transfer. Machines will find each other, enter code to confirm. Its a piece of piss. If you can't get win7 easy transfer to work from XP to 7, you have no business managing data on either...
news flash: plenty of real businesses out there have volume agreements and get the upgrade to vista/7/whatever for free.
fact: i've done back to back testing with a shitty 5 year old laptop running XP+SOE and 7+SOE on same hardware (windows + virus scanner + office 2007 + a few apps) and with 1gb ram 7 was as fast or faster once you let the initial search index complete.
not to mention the continuing availability of security updates and arguably superior (to windows XP) security model.
fact: SOE images are far easier to create and maintain with Windows vista / 7 than they are with Windows XP. You know... how real businesses want to actually roll out a standard build...
The economy has fuck all to do with a lot of people deciding to roll out 7, either en-masse or as old boxes die and need to be re-imaged.
Have rolled out 7 to about 30% of the company thus far and the problems to deal with have been exceedingly minimal, as they will be for around 95% of desktop workloads out there.
Stuff like branchcache and directaccess are a time and money saver as well, when combined with 2008 R2.
So you're willing to give up pervasive search abilities, separation of video driver from kernel (i.e., dodgy video driver crash = screen flickers while it reloads - carry on working/etc), better networking support in general, future versions of powershell, and SMB signing for a few clicks when setting an ip address on a network adapter - something done, at best once every time you move computer (assuming your network administrator is too brain damaged to figure out auto config).
Again, no. The goals in Afghanistan were: 1) overthrow the Taliban (check) 2) bring various members of Al Qaeda to justice (check) 3) capture Osama Bin Laden. The status of the 3rd item is, at best, inconclusive, but the other 2 goals have been largely achieved.
Lol. And here i was thinking it was about stopping terrorism, post 9/11. In that, you've had a pretty major FAIL. One day, more than a small percentage of americans will realize that you are such a terrorist target BECAUSE you keep fucking around in other countries and instigating "regime change" when the majority of the citizenry of said country did not want it.
All the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have done is sow the seeds of the next generation of terrorists, kill your economy and turn the USA into the laughing stock amongst civilized nations. Its a shame because I KNOW a few of you are good guys.
I can see how that works. You can't really go into combat where there is a possibility of getting killed by the other guy without "an ego the size of texas", when you think about it. And if you're stupid, then yeah the ego would need to be bigger to make up for that shortcoming...
Why the hell the US would want people in their armed forces who can think for themselves at the moment is beyond me. The foreign policy is despicable, and you wouldn't want your armies doubting that an going AWOL or rebelling now would you?
Yeah thats the problem nvidia chipset i was talking about.
Its a damn shame, because AMD have had some fine CPUs in the past - but typically the motherboard selection was pretty bad. I lost count of the number of broken VIA chipset problems I dealt with and just got sick of it.
Went to an intel BX chipset P2-350 (back in the day) and never looked back.
Its not just AMD affected though i might add - other motherboards for intel i have had wierd buggy shit on. Ended up just going for intel desktop board + intel cpu and have had very minimal problems since.
If there's a decent AMD CPU + motherboard offering available, I'll give it a shot.
Problem is, plenty of hardware review sites focus on benchmarks, and differences in SiSoft benchmarks, or FPS ratings, when i just don't care about 1-5% performance increases. I just want the box to behave properly and work.
I don't want to be dealing with wierd and wonderful bios/chipset issues. I guess its why I like Macs so much these days... if it doesn't work, there's only one vendor to blame:)
I have had problems with AMDs in the past, but it wasn't the CPUs. The CPUs have always been fine, but often to support them you need to go to some busted-arse chipset from VIA, SLI or Nvidia.
Admittedly it has been some time now since I've had a non-intel box (because of previous bad experiences with non-intel machines), but the most overlooked aspect of building a box is, imho the chipset.
Now AMD appear to be building a lot more of the chipset either into the CPU or GPU (now they've purchased ATI) i might give htem another shot.
I've yet to find an IE6 only app. Got any examples? All of the brain-damaged IE-only shit I've had to deal with runs just fine in later versions of IE (we've currently got 8 on all our Windows boxes), when properly configured to work with broken intranet apps via group policy...
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Be careful what you wish for without doing performance testing.
They do. See "cached" reading
It IS easy, if you read the documentation
They're still sold with XP because they are cheap.
Win7 eats ram for cache. As does LINUX, or any other reasonably modern OS. "free" memory is pointless, wasted memory. Using it for disk cache until it is needed is far more effective and speeds the system up. If 7 runs out of "free" memory it dynamically shrinks your disk cache (again, like any other sensible OS of recent memory) and returns that ram for use by programs.
If you have a USB 2 port available, try sticking in a 4GB flash disk to use with readyboost. It will be even better.
If you have the hardware available (and really, if your computer is more than 5 years old it is likely running WIndows XP + SP3 + required software to keep it anywhere near secure/usable like a PIG anyway.
If you have a machine with 1GB ram and a pentium 4 or more recent however Windows 7 is actually more usable. I know, because as a test I worked with a Dell D510 lappy with 1gb of ram for a week to test for minimum usable spec for our SOE cutoff. It even installed and ran reasonably well on a D505 with 512mb ram, but the video adapter just was not supported. No big deal because the battery on that machine was fucked and D series spares are not really available any more.
Sure they may have been on ubuntu for years - but until the actual APPS that people need to run have been available on it, in a stable, vendor supported form - then its fucking useless for people who NEED those apps to do their job.
Don't get me wrong, I've been a linux user since 1996, and have made extensive use on it for Internet firewalls, mail servers, proxy servers, etc. But operating systems are merely tools. Use the correct tool for the job. If all you have is a hammer (ubuntu) it doesn't mean everything is a nail (say, running Datamine, Mine24d, suprac, etc).
If you use outlook or another mail program with a windows search filter...
start -> kind:=email from:bob date:last week
it works on documents, emails, etc.
Windows 7 search kicks arse. It is FAST, too.
Run windows easy transfer on the 7 machine, stick it on a usb stick when prompted. Plug both machines in via crossover (or even straight, on gig-e) cable. Plug USB stick into windows XP and run windows easy transfer. Machines will find each other, enter code to confirm. Its a piece of piss. If you can't get win7 easy transfer to work from XP to 7, you have no business managing data on either...
news flash: plenty of real businesses out there have volume agreements and get the upgrade to vista/7/whatever for free.
fact: i've done back to back testing with a shitty 5 year old laptop running XP+SOE and 7+SOE on same hardware (windows + virus scanner + office 2007 + a few apps) and with 1gb ram 7 was as fast or faster once you let the initial search index complete.
not to mention the continuing availability of security updates and arguably superior (to windows XP) security model.
fact: SOE images are far easier to create and maintain with Windows vista / 7 than they are with Windows XP. You know... how real businesses want to actually roll out a standard build...
The economy has fuck all to do with a lot of people deciding to roll out 7, either en-masse or as old boxes die and need to be re-imaged.
Have rolled out 7 to about 30% of the company thus far and the problems to deal with have been exceedingly minimal, as they will be for around 95% of desktop workloads out there.
Stuff like branchcache and directaccess are a time and money saver as well, when combined with 2008 R2.
So you're willing to give up pervasive search abilities, separation of video driver from kernel (i.e., dodgy video driver crash = screen flickers while it reloads - carry on working/etc), better networking support in general, future versions of powershell, and SMB signing for a few clicks when setting an ip address on a network adapter - something done, at best once every time you move computer (assuming your network administrator is too brain damaged to figure out auto config).
Have fun with that.
hit start. type network (or hell, even "net"). that wasn't too hard?
sounds like you need to jump ship to linux + fvwm95
I can see how that works. You can't really go into combat where there is a possibility of getting killed by the other guy without "an ego the size of texas", when you think about it. And if you're stupid, then yeah the ego would need to be bigger to make up for that shortcoming...
Why the hell the US would want people in their armed forces who can think for themselves at the moment is beyond me. The foreign policy is despicable, and you wouldn't want your armies doubting that an going AWOL or rebelling now would you?
because running them through diff would be impossible?
Was ALi...
They will do as they always have, and make money out of content creation tools. For HTML5, instead of flash.
Yeah thats the problem nvidia chipset i was talking about.
Its a damn shame, because AMD have had some fine CPUs in the past - but typically the motherboard selection was pretty bad. I lost count of the number of broken VIA chipset problems I dealt with and just got sick of it.
Went to an intel BX chipset P2-350 (back in the day) and never looked back.
Its not just AMD affected though i might add - other motherboards for intel i have had wierd buggy shit on. Ended up just going for intel desktop board + intel cpu and have had very minimal problems since.
If there's a decent AMD CPU + motherboard offering available, I'll give it a shot.
Problem is, plenty of hardware review sites focus on benchmarks, and differences in SiSoft benchmarks, or FPS ratings, when i just don't care about 1-5% performance increases. I just want the box to behave properly and work.
I don't want to be dealing with wierd and wonderful bios/chipset issues. I guess its why I like Macs so much these days... if it doesn't work, there's only one vendor to blame :)
Yeah, MSI i think. Either way, chipsets are the problem more often than CPUs...
SLI = something else. I forget the company, probably gone bust now. Chipset vendor from the late 90s onwards...
I have had problems with AMDs in the past, but it wasn't the CPUs. The CPUs have always been fine, but often to support them you need to go to some busted-arse chipset from VIA, SLI or Nvidia.
Admittedly it has been some time now since I've had a non-intel box (because of previous bad experiences with non-intel machines), but the most overlooked aspect of building a box is, imho the chipset.
Now AMD appear to be building a lot more of the chipset either into the CPU or GPU (now they've purchased ATI) i might give htem another shot.
I've yet to find an IE6 only app. Got any examples? All of the brain-damaged IE-only shit I've had to deal with runs just fine in later versions of IE (we've currently got 8 on all our Windows boxes), when properly configured to work with broken intranet apps via group policy...