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OS's... Isnt it funny..

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Lionheart

SOH-CM-2014
Hey all..

Isnt it interesting when a new OS is released.

Bad release: Bickering, complaining, more bickering, problems; 'how do I get this turned off?', 'how come it does that?', 'why are my config files gone? ....missing? ...wont allow me to edit them?' 'why cant I download my payware plane I just purchased?'


Good release: nothing... quiet... people are running it too busy to talk about it.. more are purchasing it.. 'so what do you think of the new OS?' ... 'great! works awesome. faster!'



:d


Love it when things work smoothly.




Bill
 
all quiet on the mac fora, eh? ^^

same thing with the soh forum software...so far very few complaints from the "customers"...
now the implementation i dont know about...
 
Actually I meant Win7.

When vista came out, it was pretty bad. Many complaints. I remember UAC was deleting my config files, restoring them to previous versions, doing havoc to my business. I listen around on the forums now and it sounds like 7 is a pure winner.

Great to see. errr hear.. or read..


:d


On Apple, yep, them as well. Snow Leopard had, it seems, one flaw, but otherwise, it was a pretty huge success. Mostly quiet with no complaints except for some people having lost files when they had a 'visitor' account on their computers.

Good news is good..


Bill
 
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Bill, it's great that 7 is working well. When I build my new computer this year I'll probably install it... at least a dual install of 7 and XP.... just in case. ;)
 
Problem with new OS's is that some older programs will not work right or at all. Having fits with a new computer at work running Vista, trying to get thing to work, that were made for Win 2000 and XP.
 
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I HATE VISTA! I HATE VISTA!

Windows 7 is Vista, made to look slightly different.
 
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I haven't had much experience with Vista or 7...other than time spent on my brother-in-law's computers. They were Vista systems...sluggish, took forever to boot up, forever to shut down, forever to do anything. I upgraded them to Win7....faster all around, boot time is less than half of what it was with Vista, a lot fewer processes running in the back ground....same software installed under Vista and 7. Much nicer!

I am an XP man myself and will be as long as I can. Have some apps that I run with XP that I don't want to lose...like ACM...I know it won't run under Vista...anyone know if it will run under 7?

OBIO
 
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I am happy with what I have; XP SP3
No need to spend money I don't have on another OS.
And as long as I can do this cheaply will,
a limited budget also helps dictate this.. ..

I Have NO complains about XP.
It Runs well for me..And if it ain't broke, don't fix it..
Also works well I have learned.. LOL..
 
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I run XP as well. I love it. FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I need an OS that is very fast. If all I do every day, day in and day out, is bounce around through several hard drives, going into folders, working on files, updating CFG files and other file types CONTSTANTLY, and vista, being designed to keep people and programs from doing that, was doing trying to constantly thwart me and stop me and what it was calling 'fixing' my work, it was, for me, an ENEMY. (yes... I had UAC off.. )

I am afraid to try 7, but I do not fear it like vista. Well, I wouldnt call it fear.. More like anger, hatred, disqust.

From what I hear, 7 is TONS better. I have heard it was a form of vista that was made better, (like it should be). If its better and finally does 'right', then that is cool with me. So long as its fast and allows me to do my work, then I may consider buying it.


In the mean time, I have XP, which is like an old Countach with the upgraded V12 and wing, and I have Snow Leapard, which is like a Bugatti Veyron, with popup wing, 4 wheel drive, able to run with 32Gigs of RAM, 4 TB HD's, GC-SLI, etc, etc, etc, etc... (except DX, lololol... ARRGH)
 
tigisfat said:
I HATE VISTA! I HATE VISTA!

Windows 7 is Vista, made to look slightly different.
Click to expand...

Windows 7 may be Vista+, but dang, other than its fat, slow predecessor it's *awesome*!

Smooth, trouble-free, modern.

I'd never go back to XP. Never *ever*! It would be like going back from a 911 Turbo to a Trabant.
 
First off I am not a Vista hater, I agree it was not one of the better releases by MS, but I did not have many issues with it, and the few I did encounter were more annoyances than serious problems. I also have to admit I am fairly tollerant of bugs and enjoy troubleshooting, so what caused many folks to go balistic was a fun challenge for me. Having said all that Vista was sluggish in general, and unless you had the desire and time to tweak it the performance was not good, I worked on my system and got better performance from Vista than XP SP2, but it was work. Now comparing XP, Vista, and Win 7, Win 7 IMHO is a real improvement, it does load and shut down quicker than either XP or Vista (on my system anyway) and did not require time to tweak it. I have spent time tweaking regardless and found some small performance improvements but they are small, the thing I found to be the biggest improvement overall is the compatibility and stability, Win 7 has much better compatibility with older apps, and the XP Mode (Virtual machine) is just what I was looking for, I can run XP without rebooting into a seperate partition and share apps and data with Win 7.

Just Gigs 2¢
 
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