QOTD: Are You Going Windows 7 from Vista or XP?

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Evaluating 7 on this laptop now. I see it as a much better choice for our corporate path than Vista because we'll be able to lock it down easier.
 
I'll give W7 6 months and then decide. I run XP still.
I overclock, watercool, and more of a performance user.
i7 965 ES d0 chip and SLI GTX 280. I need no hassles.
 
Please no flamers - I'm on your side. As much as I can't stand the dbags in Redmond, my experience along with dozens of colleagues, Vista has been very reliable. Compared to all of my installations of Win products since 3.1, it's great! BUT my disclaimer is: both of my Vista machines are brand new builds with all Vista compliant components and drivers. My colleagues as a whole also bought new systems rather than upgrade.

With that said and with many of the problems I've read, VISTA is not a good upgrade on an existing machine using XP. BUT if you are building a new rig, Vista is a good product. And even though it takes more resources, I still find it snappier and less buggy than the latest XP.

Recommendation to self. When ready for Win7 do not be tempted to upgrade from a machine with Vista. Build new system for Win7. Decent new rig with 4gb ram and 500+ HD should run less than $500 less monitor from newegg.
 
[citation][nom]fausto[/nom]from xp but...after windows 7 service pack 1...and i'm doing 64 bit windows 7...time to leavfe 32 bit behind...[/citation]
I can't wait till the day when 64 bit is main stream. It's amazing how both AMD and Intel have been on the 64 bit bandwagon for more than half-a-decade yet the utilization of 64 bit has been nill. With Win7 I'm hoping that 64bit is the default with 32bit support rather than vice-versa.
 
my old PC still is in the min requirements for win7 32bit, but I don't think I'll be switching anytime soon. XP still runs fine if I need it (and snappier it would be than 7) but my main OS is LinuxMint

Unless I can finally get my new PC and take advantage of DX10. Would you believe me if I said I still have an fx5200 for my GPU? :)
 
I am going to stay on XP x32 for as long as I can. I may update to x64 xp if I need more than 3gigs of ram at some point, but I probably wont anytime soon. I can possibly see myself upgrading to 7 x64 several years down the line once it hits sp2 or sp3. I hate buggy os's. Right now all my apps work in xp and also its rock stable. After most everyone moves over to Vista/7, then XP should be even more secure since most people will be targeting those OS's with attacks and not XP. I tried vista many times and it was slow as @&#. Also, 7 does not seem to be bringing anything truly revolutionary to the table. The main factor that would convince me to upgrade is pure speed, and there doesn't seem to be any REAL difference.
 
I have not been on XP for sometime now. Ever since SP1 came out for Vista, the majority of performance, reliability issues I had were resolved.

I will however totally be making the switch to Windows 7, away from all other previous versions of Windows. I currently have installed the RC (7100) and used all of the previous public versions on a pretty old machine.

It's a Shuttle Cube, 2.66Ghz P4, 1GB RAM, 40GB, Radeon 9700 Pro AGP...

Have said that - IT ROCKS! This is not a speed demon machine at all, but the performance is sooo much better than Vista installed on the same machine, and I even get transparency of my windows. :) Much better start-up, shutdown, browser speeds.

I can only imagine it would be better on a more contemporary machine.

 
Win 7 RC x64 is too nice, fresh install running like a champ
currentyly happy than hell with win 7 no plans of going back to Vista

Ive had Vista (x32) since its release, and I used to dual boot with XP but I gave up on XP shortly afterwards

Currently triple booting:
Win 7
Vista
Ubuntu 9.04
 
Staying with Vista until Win7 kinks are worked out; will probably wait until there's a Win7 SP1. I heard they'll release a Vista SP2, so why bother. At work, we're probably going to stick with XP, as an upgrade for 4,000 people would cost millions and we're in expense-reduction mode. I tried to convince our head IT guy that Linux would be best if cost-savings is the goal, but he just laughed.
 
Both-r/c dOSN'T LIMIT YOU TO ONE UPGRADE, YOU CAN DO FEW. I DID 590 FX & IT WAS HARD & STILL balkie. installed office 2007 internet connect, it helped it establish its router/dsl w/ 690 G. it had ultimate, yet was still bit of bug in but, yet with patience, it worked. all delicate to install, yet install is strong. theres so many variables, try until it works.

signed😛HYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART von DRASHEK M.D.
 
xp-7!
Mainly I use notebooks.
Perhaps I might just stay with xp!

I think Intel should focus on getting XP compatibility, not VISTA.
XP programs work in Vista, but not reverse.
If they focus on XP compatibility there's also a better chance that software originally written for Win98/95 will work on 7.

Vista users should not feel like they are left out, because Vista on itself didn't have many programs written exclusively for Vista. Most programs and drivers have an XP install file too.
Vista hasn't been around long enough to completely take over the landscape, while XP has.
 
I have vista ultimate 64 because I use Photoshop and some video editing ,and I will keep it for now. For me does not make sense to change it until I will see something like OSX on my imac which after startup IF YOU DON'T OPEN ANY PROGRAM USES JUST 150 MEGA OF RAM ?
 
From Vista 64, I won't. It works fine for my personnal uses. If it ain't broken, don't fix it. I'll invest my money elsewhere right now, better uses for it.
 
I'm already using Win7 64 most of the time. I'm hoping that the few things that are still broken will be corrected at some point. I still can't believe that after all of this time, you still can't get Bioshock or any other "directx 10" game to play reliably on Vista or Win7. The lag time when watching live TV in Media Center is, and always has been, unacceptable.
I've got the fastest processor, graphics card, memory, drives, motherboards available in my systems and I'm floored by the fact that they all run more reliably on an OS that is nearly 10 years old verses the OS that supposedly has benefited from those 10 years of additional development.
Hopefully we can finally move on and forget that Microsoft Abortion (Vista) ever existed.
 
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