Windows 7

[fossil112]

c/p

Microsoft to Vista Owners: You'll Pay for Our Mistake

If Microsoft really charges $120-and-up for Windows 7, the company will send a very clear message: Don't upgrade. That, or Microsoft is betting that Vista victims will pay almost any price to get the ill-fated OS off their machines.
Which is it?
Microsoft is currently holding a two-week pre-sale "sale" on Windows 7, with Windows 7 Home Premium selling for as low as $50 a copy. If you miss the July 11 cut-off and wait until the official October 22 release, you'll pay full price, Microsoft says (for now, anyway).
Given that upgrades and sales of Vista on machines not powerful enough to show it to good advantage helped the OS gain its bad reputation, maybe Microsoft is hedging its bet.
Pricing Windows 7 upgrades high enough that current Vista users won't bother insures that most users will see the new OS on a new computer. If Microsoft can better manage its OEM partners this time, so that Windows 7 only sells on new hardware powerful enough to make it look good, then the new OS might avoid the early drubbing that Vista received.
Those early notices sent Vista down a road of no return, despite SP1 reviews, on better hardware, that proclaimed the OS not so bad, after all.
This time around should be different: Once Windows 7 is well-received on new hardware, Microsoft could lower upgrade pricing, with a stern warning about performance issues with older machines. If it works, such a strategy could save Windows 7 from Vista's fate, which is probably a good thing for everyone.
If Microsoft persists with the $120-and-up pricing, we can assume only one thing: that Microsoft has seen the future and that by October 22 the world recession will be over, money will have reappeared in people's pockets, and $120 for an OS upgrade won’t seem as outlandish as it does today.
But, if Microsoft had such prescience, I guess we'd be waiting for Vista II and not Windows 7, wouldn’t we?

[morc68]

i am running 7 for free had XP got it from Cnet

[satmaxx]

Windows 7 is really SP2.x for Vista; comments I've read are lukewarm, but comparing it to Vista it's a major improvement; the Voles and talking heads are getting hammered by the critics for another debacle in the making regarding the upgrade costs; it's funny how MS is being compared to Apple, not unlike IBM was compared to MS in the 90's (the 8000 lb gorilla)

[Bud_Alcor]

I used to had the windows & the BETA. It was better the windows vista in overall. The thing I hate about microsoft is that Vista it was a bad OS. I only use vista for gaming most neew pc games need Direct X10. That why after vista I realize it just sucks I chnage to Linux. and thank i made the right choice.

[Landscapeman]

I am running windows 7 RC on a AMD athlon XP and runs better than XP or at leaast as fast as 2000 SP4. I am also running it on a Core 2 Quad and it really shows its muscles. I really hope they offer it for less than 50.00 for the upgrade. Otherwise they will lose there market share.

[Bud_Alcor]

Originally Posted by satmaxx

Windows 7 is really SP2.x for Vista; comments I've read are lukewarm, but comparing it to Vista it's a major improvement; the Voles and talking heads are getting hammered by the critics for another debacle in the making regarding the upgrade costs; it's funny how MS is being compared to Apple, not unlike IBM was compared to MS in the 90's (the 8000 lb gorilla)

They did chnage some of the GUI effects. Also there no way they can compared MS to apple.. Its like apple and oranges..Both are closed source and Apple MAC X OS is UNIX-like OS...

[Triac-1]

Running 7 for free will end soon..
I should know I was a beta tester for VISTA
Windows 2K Pro is my Preferred OS second is XP.
FYI Win 95 SE minimal installation required only 56meg of HDD space, this is smaller than most web searchers example my favorite Firefox.

[Triac-1]

It has been said that SP3 for Vista was released... It reinstalled XP...heh

[Bud_Alcor]

Originally Posted by Landscapeman

I am running windows 7 RC on a AMD athlon XP and runs better than XP or at leaast as fast as 2000 SP4. I am also running it on a Core 2 Quad and it really shows its muscles. I really hope they offer it for less than 50.00 for the upgrade. Otherwise they will lose there market share.

For $50 is a good deal. For that maybe I use MS for my daily life

[Triac-1]

Vista duh? Remember ME version...OK.. Im leaving this thread

[Bud_Alcor]

Originally Posted by Triac-1

Running 7 for free will end soon..
I should know I was a beta tester for VISTA
Windows 2K Pro is my Preferred OS second is XP.
FYI Win 95 SE minimal installation required only 56meg of HDD space, this is smaller than most web searchers example my favorite Firefox.

Wow that bring some memories.. when I have to upgrade from windows 3.1 or something like that.

[Triac-1]

3.1 windows spare me.. If I were that close to DOS id use a Linux product like??? ubuntu er knoppix.

Good to meet you... and then I used I go back to applesoft and applesoft with the brun command

[Bud_Alcor]

Originally Posted by Triac-1

3.1 windows spare me.. If I were that close to DOS id use a Linux product like??? ubuntu er knoppix.

Good to meet you... and then I used I go back to applesoft and applesoft with the brun command

I still have some nightmares about DOS..

[deanluna]

I'm running Vista right now too.,.,.,it sucks to say the least.,.,my fav is 2K pro as well.,..,runs like a top.,.,do all my recording on it.,.,too bad nothing is compatible with it.,.,still don't know wether I'm going to abandon vista or not.,.,hmmmmm

[fossil112]

Go, Ubuntu, go

[Crystal Dragon]

one word...

COBOL (shudders)

... that will give ya nightmares!!

[ldconfig]

Linux Mint 7 nothing else comes close ... i love ripping blu-rays
ld

[gibahca]

yeah guys...go with ubuntu...microsoft sucks.
Been running windows 7 in another partition and it sucks after few days.
if you're not a hardcore gamer linux is your best option