How many of you are ready to run out and upgrade to Windows 8?

Not me.

On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:34:55 -0400, PDFrank wrote:

Not me.

The company that I work for is moving to Windows 7 as I write (or
may have finished by now). I doubt that Windows 8 has been seriously
considered or will be for some time.

I have two computers on my desktop. One is an XP box; the other
is my 7 box. I do development/maintenance programming on both, and
the XP box is still my main system. Windows 8? No, I will wait to
see what happens and then probably ignore it for quite some time.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:34:55 -0400, PDFrank wrote:

Not me.


I don't have to run out to install it. I've had Windows 8 sitting here
since RTM, ready to install if I want to (I got it from my MSDN
subscription).

I also ran both of the previews, so I have some experience with it.

I haven't decided to install it yet, but I probably will in the not
very distant future.

On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:34:55 -0400, PDFrank wrote:

Not me.

I've got the preview on my VMware machine.

I haven't logged on since the first day ;-)

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:34:55 -0400, PDFrank wrote:

Not me.

I would, but first I'd have to buy a Fisher-Price computer.

Seriously, Microsoft seems to alternate really horrible unusable
(RHU) versions of Windows with merely annoying (MA) ones.

RHU - Windows 8
MA - Windows 7
RHU - Windows Vista
MA - Windows XP
RHU - Windows ME
MA - Windows 98
RHU - Microsoft Bob
MA - Windows 95

Have I forgotten any?

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 21:50:08 -0400, Stan Brown
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:34:55 -0400, PDFrank wrote:

Not me.

I would, but first I'd have to buy a Fisher-Price computer.

Seriously, Microsoft seems to alternate really horrible unusable
(RHU) versions of Windows with merely annoying (MA) ones.

RHU - Windows 8
MA - Windows 7
RHU - Windows Vista
MA - Windows XP
RHU - Windows ME
MA - Windows 98
RHU - Microsoft Bob
MA - Windows 95

Have I forgotten any?

My wife has a laptop that came with Vista installed. She would like to upgrade
it to Windows 7, but the upgrades no longer seem to be available.




--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

On 05/10/2012 12:38 AM, Ken1943 wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:34:55 -0400, PDFrank wrote:

Not me.
Unless someone proves to me that is better and more reliable than 7,
No way.
Besides when7 gets no more updates, I may be 6 feet under.

My view precisely. Actually my real reason for not changing to Windows 8
is that I've tried it. It is diabolical. I may be OK for phones and toy
computers, but enterprise and domestic desktop/laptop users won't touch
it with a bargepole.

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK


If all seems to be going well, you obviously have no idea what is really
happening.

On 05/10/2012 6:37 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 21:50:08 -0400, Stan Brown
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:34:55 -0400, PDFrank wrote:

Not me.

I would, but first I'd have to buy a Fisher-Price computer.

Seriously, Microsoft seems to alternate really horrible unusable
(RHU) versions of Windows with merely annoying (MA) ones.

RHU - Windows 8
MA - Windows 7
RHU - Windows Vista
MA - Windows XP
RHU - Windows ME
MA - Windows 98
RHU - Microsoft Bob
MA - Windows 95

Have I forgotten any?

My wife has a laptop that came with Vista installed. She would like to upgrade
it to Windows 7, but the upgrades no longer seem to be available.


Buy Windows 7 and overwrite Vista then - it's worth it. You can get
legal copies quite cheap if you download it and go through innumerable
updates - even quicker if you can get SP1 as a file too.

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK


Can you be a closet claustrophobic?

"PDFrank" wrote in message ...
Not me.

Me, although I don't need to upgrade as I run several computers, one of which has Win8.

Stan Brown wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:34:55 -0400, PDFrank wrote:
Not me.

I would, but first I'd have to buy a Fisher-Price computer.

Seriously, Microsoft seems to alternate really horrible unusable
(RHU) versions of Windows with merely annoying (MA) ones.

RHU - Windows 8
MA - Windows 7
RHU - Windows Vista
MA - Windows XP
RHU - Windows ME
MA - Windows 98
RHU - Microsoft Bob
MA - Windows 95

Have I forgotten any?

Yes! The best Windows version yet, Windows 2000.
--
Crash

"Never underestimate the power of the Dark Side."
~ Obi-Wan Kenobi ~

In article , Stan Brown
writes
I would, but first I'd have to buy a Fisher-Price computer.

Seriously, Microsoft seems to alternate really horrible unusable (RHU)
versions of Windows with merely annoying (MA) ones.

RHU - Windows 8
MA - Windows 7
RHU - Windows Vista
MA - Windows XP
RHU - Windows ME
MA - Windows 98
RHU - Microsoft Bob
MA - Windows 95

Have I forgotten any?

3 and 3.11 which as I remember weren't too bad for their day, ah the
joys of a 42 meg HDD, 2 meg of RAM and programs which would fit on one
floppy disc.

Mike

--
Michael Swift We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners.
Kirkheaton We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
Yorkshire Halvard Lange

Charlie+ wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:34:55 -0400, PDFrank wrote
as underneath :

Not me.
Trouble is eventually it is forced by hardware not providing drivers
for old OSs - Baught a new laptop for my sister about a year ago;
wanted to put XP on it for her - no hardware drivers, had to be
W7...! They get you in the end.

That is generally my only reason for updating (not the same as
upgrading). I am only using Windows 7 because it became impractical to
keep repairing my Windows 2000 computer. At this rate, I probably won't
update Windows until Windows 10 is released.
--
Crash

"I'm told that Wagner's music is not as bad as it sounds."
~ Mark Twain ~

On 05/10/2012 03:38, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:34:55 -0400, PDFrank wrote:

Not me.

I've got the preview on my VMware machine.

I haven't logged on since the first day ;-)


Same situation here.
It's awful.

Fokke

Stan Brown wrote:

RHU - Windows 8
MA - Windows 7
RHU - Windows Vista
MA - Windows XP
RHU - Windows ME
MA - Windows 98
RHU - Microsoft Bob
MA - Windows 95

Have I forgotten any?

You're really stretching to include MS Bob in this list. It wasn't an
operating system, it was an add-on for Win95. Dead on arrival.

--
Tim Slattery

On 05/10/2012 08:56, Bob Henson wrote:


On 05/10/2012 6:37 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 21:50:08 -0400, Stan Brown
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:34:55 -0400, PDFrank wrote:

Not me.

I would, but first I'd have to buy a Fisher-Price computer.

Seriously, Microsoft seems to alternate really horrible unusable
(RHU) versions of Windows with merely annoying (MA) ones.

RHU - Windows 8
MA - Windows 7
RHU - Windows Vista
MA - Windows XP
RHU - Windows ME
MA - Windows 98
RHU - Microsoft Bob
MA - Windows 95

Have I forgotten any?

My wife has a laptop that came with Vista installed. She would like to upgrade
it to Windows 7, but the upgrades no longer seem to be available.


Buy Windows 7 and overwrite Vista then - it's worth it. You can get
legal copies quite cheap if you download it and go through innumerable
updates - even quicker if you can get SP1 as a file too.

Do you mean this can be done without affecting settings or without
reformatting disc? If not then all user files would have to be saved to
an external drive, wouldn't they?

Or is this an 'update to Windows 7' leaving everything other than the OS
intact?--
choro
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