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Not sure about 7 (I personally see nothing wrong with it actually), let him answer that, but look at that site for Vista, and click "Evidence".
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XP - Getting too old to use?
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Not sure about 7 (I personally see nothing wrong with it actually), let him answer that, but look at that site for Vista, and click "Evidence".
neilhart
macrumors 6502
Do not upgrade unless there is a reason to do so.
XP is currently stable and solid. Runs well as a virtual machine and in BootCamp.
MS would like you to upgrade for the $$. It is interesting that MS is including virtual XP in Win 7. That must tell you something.
Anyway, OSX rules and I advise against investing in MS.
Neil
XP is currently stable and solid. Runs well as a virtual machine and in BootCamp.
MS would like you to upgrade for the $$. It is interesting that MS is including virtual XP in Win 7. That must tell you something.
Anyway, OSX rules and I advise against investing in MS.
Neil
Okay, I guess that does make sense. I have no applications that require Windows Vista or Windows 7. They all run great in Windows XP. However, if I discover any applications that do require Windows 7, I could consider upgrading. But for now, I guess I'll just stick with Windows XP.
Stridder44
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Thank you Jessica. I knew it was available somewhere.
Nah dude, XP was a headache. Stick with Win 98. 🙄
The only rubbish here is that site itself. I can understand keeping what works for you, or because you can't afford anything newer, but some people are just so ignorant.
I have lots of older PC games, they use DirectX 9, and I don't have a game that needs DirectX 10 or 11. There's no need for Vista or 7 until these DX-11 games start coming out in mass quanity Windows XP will always be viable as a dual or triple boot solution to run that older software.
TeamRetic
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I am sticking with XP, even though it is pretty old. It seems to work fine and run all my programs that I need. My experience with Vista wasn't so good. It had 3 blue screens of death and had trouble with running some programs. I am no way switching to Windows 7, because I value my privacy a lot.
Stridder44
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😕 How does Windows 7 affect your privacy? XP somehow doesn't?
Sure, but 98% of DX9-based games run at least just as fast on Windows 7. Not disagreeing with you, just saying.
XP is pretty stable. It is still the choice of many gamers and people who need a reliable Windows box. It is not a resource hog like Vista and there are still plenty of applications that run on it.
It is definitely not too old to use. If you need a reliable Windows install and don't have some specific application that absolutely requires Vista or 7, then I wouldn't bother with either of those. Just use XP.
All of the computers at my university (DePaul) still use XP!
It is definitely not too old to use. If you need a reliable Windows install and don't have some specific application that absolutely requires Vista or 7, then I wouldn't bother with either of those. Just use XP.
All of the computers at my university (DePaul) still use XP!
Due to the early issues with Vista, most enterprise customers opted to skip it all together, in order to keep their operations going, and not deal with the headaches.
With Win7 about to drop, it's stable, and thus far better positioned for enterprise adoption. MS has put a lot of effort into making IT staff aware of this. Just check out MS's Tech Net section. 😉
Budgets will be the main deciding factor though, as it may mean more than just new software. New systems may not be possible, as some of the older units still in service may even be too old to run Win7 reliably (which does do better at running on older hardware than Vista did/does). Optimized code has that effect for some strange reason. 😉 😛