Windows 7: Poll: Will you upgrade to Windows 7 when it's released October 22?
- 8/7/09 1:21 PM
Its got to be better
by rlecuonajr - 8/8/09 6:26 PM In reply to: Poll: Will you upgrade to Windows 7 when it's released October 22? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
After Vista I think anything they come out with has to be better
ha
by ohoh7 - 8/8/09 6:36 PM In reply to: Poll: Will you upgrade to Windows 7 when it's released October 22? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
ha, i donno howto xplain...
Upgrade to Windows 7?
by tspraetz - 8/9/09 2:58 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you upgrade to Windows 7 when it's released October 22? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I will not upgrade to Windows 7 because my new computer has Vista 64 and I am fine with it.
No someone else can beta
by Evayy - 8/9/09 4:05 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you upgrade to Windows 7 when it's released October 22? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
No way , very happy with xp
Windows 7? Not Now...
by WB2VUO - 8/9/09 11:20 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you upgrade to Windows 7 when it's released October 22? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am about 3 generations behind the curve with the desktop here, no bucks loose in the system to allow an upgrade at this time.
Still 'suffering' along with a PC running XP Pro, an eMac with OS-10.4 and two old Pentium II's that I play with small Linux distros on. Puppy presently, no time to play with others at this time.
I skipped Vista, maybe W7 at a later time but not now.
Upgrade to Win7
by SBKDisco - 8/9/09 3:07 PM In reply to: Poll: Will you upgrade to Windows 7 when it's released October 22? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Why would I want to upgrade?
There is no real benefit to those people who can actually use Win XP close to it's full potential. Furthermore if the "Security" fixes that have caused me to uninstall IE8 because it saw fit to block me from accessing my companies Intranet and databasing applications, are an integral part of Windows 7, as I suspect they are, I wouldn't be able to use it anyway.
I have 1 machine that i just purcased that
by orlbuckeye - 8/9/09 3:10 PM In reply to: Poll: Will you upgrade to Windows 7 when it's released October 22? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I will get the upgrade to Windows 7 HP for free and I will do the MS anytime upgrade to Windows 7 Pro.
Congratulations to the boys in Redmond
by rtuley - 8/10/09 8:30 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you upgrade to Windows 7 when it's released October 22? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have prior experience with M.S. operating systems beginning with Windows 3.1. The result is that at some point a couple years ago, I jumped ship and went with a Mac, which, until I tried Windows 7, was the ultimate computing experience for me. Then a friend of mine downloaded the rc of Win 7 and installed it on a fairly new HP desktop I have. At first I was skeptical because until that point my primary experience with most of Redmonds' efforts consisted of anger, despair, hopelessness and a distinct feeling that I was wasting an incredible amount of time repairing and/or maintaining my pc, and not accomplishing what I set out to do. Windows 7 changed all that. I have run it since about 5 days or so after it's beta release, and have yet to experience the slightest problem with it! The beta release even!?!??! I had to eat some words for some friends of mine who are hard core Microsoft fans, and admit that, yes, this OS comes through, and admirably, at that. I use my pc constantly, and 7 runs without notice. I have yet to have to stop and download a patch, fix a registry entry, or any other of the many problems that plagued most of the OSs' I've had. It's as if I sit down to a new pc, each and every time.Fast, reliable and friendly is what 7 is all about. I believe that this system is what MS probably envisioned Vista being but couldn't quite realize. All I can say to the guys in Redmond is - Great job!!!
wahoo!
by jeff_windows_team
- 8/14/09 10:43 AM
In reply to: Congratulations to the boys in Redmond by rtuley
Glad things have changed for you 
Jeff
Windows Outreach Team
On the (Long)horns of a dilemma
by grohloff - 8/10/09 8:34 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you upgrade to Windows 7 when it's released October 22? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am uncertain about installing Windows 7 simply even though the reviews on it have basically been positive. The reason for my uncertainty is the history of OS releases with Microsoft, going back to the Longhorn hype that promised a cure for everything that was wrong with whatever OS was the standard then. With each new OS came a hype that the release version simply could not match. On our office computers when Vista came out, we were so bollixed up that we paid to have XP put on the computers, along with earlier versions of Office. The frustration of dealing with the service patch issues that comes with new Microsoft OSes has left my fingers scarred from burns. I'll stick with my XP on my home computer for now, and if I have to replace it (it has been rebuilt from the case up) that I may simply go with a Netbook or notebook that to make certain that Windows 7 isn't so problem riddled that Windows 8 is being hyped as the next big thing.
Not upgrading to Win7
by Hartiq - 8/10/09 8:57 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you upgrade to Windows 7 when it's released October 22? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Why?
I'm a casualty of the Microsoft/EU war, and as a result I'd have to buy a crippled, browserless version of Win7.
I would like the ugly, expensive, undemocratic, totalitarian EU to crawl away and die, but that's never likely to happen.
I don't *care* that MS includes Internet Exploiter in all their Windows. I don't use it much, so it rarely compromises my security. Removing it probably cripples Win7's security ever so much more.
I could buy a USAlien copy, but I'm not sure that would be legal, and I'd get bored spending the next decade trying to teach it how to spell correctly.
Is there any way to vote for assimilation by America?
worth reading
by jeff_windows_team - 8/14/09 10:46 AM
In reply to: Not upgrading to Win7 by Hartiq
I think you might find this relevant - http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2009/07/31/windows-7-and-browser-choice-in-europe.aspx
Jeff
Windows Outreach Team
Thank you.
by Hartiq - 8/15/09 9:09 AM In reply to: worth reading by jeff_windows_team
Very interesting, thank you.
H.
Hmm.
by Hartiq - 8/15/09 9:20 AM In reply to: Thank you. by HartiqSo, basically, Microsoft are going to rely on the inertia of the users to keep IE installed and to keep using IE, even when the new users are offered a gigantic hint about choosing other browsers? That's not so very much different from what they do now.
I suppose the loonies at the EU, being essentially bureaucrats, will see the addition of the selection screen as offering a choice, and so complying with the spirit of their arguments, but, to a technical fellow, it's just another clicky-box on the sequence of starting up a new box. I doubt if more than a few people will bother selecting a different browser then. Most of us will get the boxes up and running, *then* personalise them.
Which is fair enough. I just hope it's enough of a compromise to keep the EU off of MS's backs for a while.
Knowing the EU from the perspective of a victim of their nutiness, I doubt it.
H.
Peace declared? I've changed my mind. Probably "yes" to Win7
by Hartiq - 8/23/09 9:29 AM In reply to: Not upgrading to Win7 by HartiqAccording to the MS Upgrade site:
"http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/buy/offers/upgrade.aspx"
"On 22 October, 2009, consumers in Europe will be able to buy the same version of Windows 7 as consumers will around the world. It will include Windows Internet Explorer 8 to help them get the most out of their PCs and the Internet."
That's good.
As soon as I find the easiest upgrade route, I'll do it.
:} H.
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