Oh boy... Where to start?! Okay...
Why do I "need" windows 7? Everything I have runs on XP, and runs very well. I can run XP with on a 3gb HD, 64mb's of RAM and a Pentium CPU... Why in the world does Windows 7 require over 10gb's of disk space, and 2gb's of RAM? There is absolutely, 100%, no reason for this! And cached(standby) RAM.... Really?... You are going to "cache" my programs in RAM Windows 7?... And for this, you (Windows 7) can't even run the original Fallout game. My complaints about Windows 7/Vista just go's on, and on, and on. so I'll spare everyone the rants. In the end, Windows 7 is too bloated, cumbersome, buggy, unreliable, vulnerable, and just plain incompatible with the old software and games I like to run. Just like Firefox 3.6, I have NO reason to upgrade to a fluffy, feel good browser with no menu bar just because mozilla, google, or Microsoft wants me too. I like my gray menu bars with solid black font, I like the functionality and user friendliness of it. Big squishy buttons and hidden menu's are not user friendly, their annoying and insulting. Oops, I'm ranting again. Anyways...
This is why the desktop is dying, not because people don't want to upgrade, they just don't want to upgrade to something that offers them almost nothing new over XP, requires 10x the hardware to run, and breaks compatibility with their software. Why can't companies look to projects like "Menuet OS" for inspiration? It's written completely in assembly language and runs OFF OF A FLOPPY. Even for it's current alpha state, it is a full featured OS that can do almost what every other desktop OS can do, except it requires 10,416x less disk space than Win 7! The desktop is dying because of the bloat, and corporate stupidity, not because every user wants to trade their PC for a table or cell phone, it's because the desktop OS's suck so much now-a-days!
So yes, XP is my very last Microsoft Desktop OS I will ever run. At least until MS gets their act together that is.
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Oh boy... Where to start?! Okay... Why do I "need" windows 7? Everything I have runs on XP, and runs very well. I can run XP with on a 3gb HD, 64mb's of RAM and a Pentium CPU... Why in the world does Windows 7 require over 10gb's of disk space, and 2gb's of RAM? There is absolutely, 100%, no reason for this! And cached(standby) RAM.... Really?... You are going to "cache" my programs in RAM Windows 7?... And for this, you (Windows 7) can't even run the original Fallout game. My complaints about Windows 7/Vista just go's on, and on, and on. so I'll spare everyone the rants. In the end, Windows 7 is too bloated, cumbersome, buggy, unreliable, vulnerable, and just plain incompatible with the old software and games I like to run. Just like Firefox 3.6, I have NO reason to upgrade to a fluffy, feel good browser with no menu bar just because mozilla, google, or Microsoft wants me too. I like my gray menu bars with solid black font, I like the functionality and user friendliness of it. Big squishy buttons and hidden menu's are not user friendly, their annoying and insulting. Oops, I'm ranting again. Anyways... This is why the desktop is dying, not because people don't want to upgrade, they just don't want to upgrade to something that offers them almost nothing new over XP, requires 10x the hardware to run, and breaks compatibility with their software. Why can't companies look to projects like "Menuet OS" for inspiration? It's written completely in assembly language and runs OFF OF A FLOPPY. Even for it's current alpha state, it is a full featured OS that can do almost what every other desktop OS can do, except it requires 10,416x less disk space than Win 7! The desktop is dying because of the bloat, and corporate stupidity, not because every user wants to trade their PC for a table or cell phone, it's because the desktop OS's suck so much now-a-days! So yes, XP is my very last Microsoft Desktop OS I will ever run. At least until MS gets their act together that is.