Upgrade to Windows 7 or not?

I have read that Windows 7's performance is slightly better than Windows
Vista. Soo I am wondering is it any reason to upgrade to Win7 except for
the eyecandy?

Any thoughts, recommendations?

http://www.hd720i.com/Category/Windo...20XP/30-1.aspx
http://www.hd720i.com/Category/Windo...ista/35-1.aspx

>And so can be WIndows7 tamed down to WinXp behavior, but it's better than Vista
>certainly.

Then why not stay with XP. Windows 7 performance is far better and faster than XP .
If you are talking about the cosmetics of how it looks then say as so. You are
saying performance with the above sentence that you posted
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"JEWboy" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Yes upgrade.
> As of eye-candy, I don't understand? My Vist alooks almost identical to WinXP, no
> eye-candy, I disable all the sh**, pure performanc e& speed here, no eye-candies.
> WINDOWS CLASSIC Apperance + Black background, no images, no special effects, pure
> function here.
>
> And so can be WIndows7 tamed down to WinXp behavior, but it's better than Vista
> certainly.

JEWboy,
Having had some small experience with both Vista and
Win7, I believe that Win7 is more similar to Vista that it is to XP.

Like Windows 98, I preferred this, at first, to XP finding it more
manageable. There was more that went wrong, but I knew how to fix it.
There wasn't much that COULD go wrong with Win98 in the end, that I
couldn't recover from.

However, time passed as did the evolution of programs and devices for
PCs and Windows98 got left behind and was not compatible with much that
I wanted.

So I found myself with Windows XP and now, in much the same situation I
was in before.

I have become familiar with XP now (nowhere near to the extent I was
with '98) and am reluctant to 'upgrade' to 'Vista' or 'Win7' in the same
way I was with XP from '98.

Although, with XP, I think there is still a few years of useful
operation in it yet and there is nothing (or very little) that is
incompatible with it that you need an 'upgrade' for....

With brand new hardware, you get the OS that comes with the PC, and that
is the best for it, as the 'architecture' has been developed along with
it.

However, when you talk about an 'upgrade' on an earlier PC that came
with an older operating system, I think, it is best left alone.

It is though, after all is said and done, a matter of personal opinion.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"JEWboy" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Yes upgrade.
> As of eye-candy, I don't understand? My Vist alooks almost identical
> to WinXP, no eye-candy, I disable all the sh**, pure performanc e&
> speed here, no eye-candies.
> WINDOWS CLASSIC Apperance + Black background, no images, no special
> effects, pure function here.
>
> And so can be WIndows7 tamed down to WinXp behavior, but it's better
> than Vista certainly.

Rajoo Sharma;1071485 Wrote:
> I have read that Windows 7's performance is slightly better than Windows
> Vista. Soo I am wondering is it any reason to upgrade to Win7 except
> for
> the eyecandy?
>
> Any thoughts, recommendations?
>
> 'Microsoft technology people'
> (http://www.hd720i.com/Category/Windo...20XP/30-1.aspx)
> 'Microsoft technology people'
> (http://www.hd720i.com/Category/Windo...ista/35-1.aspx)

I'm one of the lucky people who have had almost no trouble with Vista.
It's fast, stable and is a perfect operating system for running the
programmes which I need for work or play.

Eyecandy is unimportant to me. I couldn't care less what the OS looks
like as long as my programmes load and run. So for me the answer is no.


--
beauparc

Yes upgrade.
As of eye-candy, I don't understand? My Vist alooks almost identical to
WinXP, no eye-candy, I disable all the sh**, pure performanc e& speed here,
no eye-candies.
WINDOWS CLASSIC Apperance + Black background, no images, no special effects,
pure function here.

And so can be WIndows7 tamed down to WinXp behavior, but it's better than
Vista certainly.

As with all operating systems, new hardware comes out and no built in support
is offered, microsoft offers service packs to offer support with existing os,
of course
new os comes with built in support for newest hardware and add on's, xp to
me is better than vista, except in the area of USB support, I have had
nothing but problems with XP and a new mp4 player being removed and trying to
see it again, (not apple), Xp is a real pain AFAIC. looking forward to
offically offered Windows 7


"Rajoo Sharma" wrote:

> I have read that Windows 7's performance is slightly better than Windows
> Vista. Soo I am wondering is it any reason to upgrade to Win7 except for
> the eyecandy?
>
> Any thoughts, recommendations?
>
> http://www.hd720i.com/Category/Windo...20XP/30-1.aspx
> http://www.hd720i.com/Category/Windo...ista/35-1.aspx
>

One can skip Vista but not Win7, Win7 is mandatory. I can skip one
generation, but two generations of Windows skipped is asking for problems.
Because applications will be expecting Win7 or Vista and I will still be on
a 7 year old OS.

But on a different subject, I was surprised when downloading evaluation of
AgilentADS2009 (Advanced Design System), that first OS they listed was
Linux, then Vista, then XP.
I know it's irrelevant what's listed first, but it might be an indication of
how Science/Engineering people appreciate Linux.

In case you didn't know what AgilentADS is, just one fact:
A typical license costs $46-52,000 I am not kidding. It's merely 1.73GB,
5GB after decomrpessing (it uses moreefficient comrepssion than ZIP,
resulting in grater than 2x ratio), it runs on desktops and hell it costs
50K.
I am also running AWR MicrowaveOffice 2008 - a $35,000 application (for
maximum feature-set version), it's also designed first for Linux, and then
for Windows.
I am askign everyone to udnerstand what UNIX means for big business, most MS
customers are just playign and entertainign themselves, but for serious
business Vista was a sour apple.

We al wait for Windows7, in fact I am excited, i will definitely buy it...
maybe wait 2 months until they discover bugs & issue ServicePack, hehehe,
will see.
Somehow I believe it'll be a positive step towards damage control after
Vista fiasco.

Personally I have had no problems with Windows Vista and will likely not
upgrade most of my computers for some time to come.

"Rajoo Sharma" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I have read that Windows 7's performance is slightly better than Windows
> Vista. Soo I am wondering is it any reason to upgrade to Win7 except for
> the eyecandy?

try it out for yourself:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win.../download.aspx

to avoid unexpected
hassles and accidental
corruption,

you might want to
install in vista via
virtual pc or virtual box

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>

"Rajoo Sharma" <> wrote in message news:...
> I have read that Windows 7's performance is slightly better than Windows Vista. Soo I am wondering is it any reason to upgrade to
> Win7 except for the eyecandy?
>
> Any thoughts, recommendations?
>
> http://www.hd720i.com/Category/Windo...20XP/30-1.aspx
> http://www.hd720i.com/Category/Windo...ista/35-1.aspx

Ironically it was me who got blasted for promoting WinXP over any other
(Vista or Win7), I was labeled here as 'extreme" and repeatedly insulted by
Frank, Rich, Spanky, Peter, or one person usin gmultiple names... now I
moderated a bit and get criticized from another camp.

I fell like in Politics, you can never please all sides.
I actually love WinXP and was forced into Vista by a disaster (virus,
discovered XP disk is missing, had urgent work, rushed to a store and all
they had were Vistas - no time to wait for XP shipping from ZipZoomFly.com
my usual OEM supplier), yeah, but I just found many ways to wrestle Vista to
really highspeed and neat/XP-like appearance, no Aero, no
pictures/baloons/UAC/etc annoyances.

heck, even WinExplorer is hardly different from WinXP except for
breadcrumbs, I found a way to ignore breadcrumbs interface.

The only things which are fatally, horribly wrong are SEARCH, etc. for which
I use 3d party apps like Mythicsoft "FileLocatorPro" instead of Vista
failing search that missses lots of files with strings in their contents
which I know exist, but Vista fails to find UNLIKE LOVELY WinXP!!

But somehow I have a subconscious feeling that I'll be installing Windows7
soon after it's released. You can't drag on forever with old OS, but I
agree... if it wasn't for a virus I'd be running WinXP for another year. I
admit Vista is more secure, but it's only better who act recklessly, I was
never infected on WinXP.

Ohh you might wonder why I just mentioned a "virus" which forced me to
upgrade to Vista... it was at work, it wasn't my actions. The idiots who
control DSL router there force-fed me a virus, too long to explain. When I
saw an Alabama High School network on my New Jersey laptop in Nethood, I
knew something is going on.
Then I got porn popups, then winlogon was unable to start, Blue Screen of
Death, done... All dead.

Anyways, I love WinXP, I just no longer have a disk and buying it in 2010 is
crazy, I'd rather buy Win7 now that I learned how to tame down stupid Vista.

I also wrote a boatload of suggestions to MS via CustomerService, so hope
will see some implemented as I wrote under 14 different email addresses
w/different names.