[opendtv] Re: Opinion: M'soft must do better with Windows 8
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:16:36 -0400
I once had an old stock quote gathering server machine that had been
upgraded repeatedly since DOS on 5" floppies and was running Win/Me. At
that time the system board died in the middle of a stock market day and
I quickly went out and bought a cheap clone replace. I then ran it
until the weekend without even upgrading system board drivers. It ran
a few more years before I finally wiped it and gave it away.
But I agree the Windows gathers too much moss & barnacles these days and
Win7 should be a clean install when going from XP. Though my Vista64
is only a year old and I may just upgrade that. Not sure.
- Tom
Kon Wilms wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
> <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Sounds like Win7 mostly fixes the problems that Vista introduced.
>>
>
> Win7 is a huge improvement in all areas. Windows Media Center is good
> enough now for me to seriously consider completely dropping DirecTV.
>
>
>> It looks like some enterprising people out there are writing software to
>> permit upgrading from WinXP to Win7, which Microsoft does not allow without
>> competely reinstalling everything.
>>
>> http://www.laplink.com/pcmover/pcmoverupgradeassistant.html
>>
>
> I do not suggest doing this, at all.
>
> Cheers
> Kon
>
>
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