XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance 720
Harry writes "PC World and Technologizer conducted a survey of 5,000 people who use Windows XP as their primary operating system. Many have no plans to leave it, and 80% will be unhappy when Microsoft completely discontinues it. And attitudes towards Vista remain extremely negative. But a majority of those who know something about Windows 7 have a positive reaction. More important, 70 percent of respondents who have used Windows 7 say they like it, which is a sign that Windows 7 stands a chance of being what Vista never was: an upgrade good enough to convince most XP users to switch."
secure! (Score:5, Funny)
And this time, unlike Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista, Windows 7 really will be secure. Really!
Re:Try Windows 7? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'm committed to Windows 7. (Score:5, Funny)
I bet your VCR has 12:00:00 on it too :P
SOL Vista user (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Windows 7? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Try Windows 7? (Score:5, Funny)
^ This is the typical slashdotter.
Sitting around seething in hatred towards Microsoft, clinging to Windows until the Year Of The Linux Desktop finally arrives.
Re:Try Windows 7? (Score:5, Funny)
As an XP user all I can say is GO TO HELL Microsoft. I am done with your carnival sideshow of needless upgrades and pointless eye candy.
Once XP is completely dead, then I guess I'm done with Windows entirely.
OK. So what exactly will you move on to next then? Mac OS X with the same number of upgrades and pointless eye candy? Other Linux/BSD distributions that also have the same number of upgrades and pointless eye candy? Or are you just going to forgo all that and use the command-line exclusively?
Re:Try Windows 7? (Score:4, Funny)
The ancient GMA950 chip in my netbook runs Windows 7 Aero glass liquid smooth.
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Re:SOL Vista user (Score:4, Funny)
Sucks for those who bought Vista - service pack used to be free before.
Well, they say Microsoft has always been stealing ideas from Apple...
Re:Try Windows 7? (Score:4, Funny)
RSAT Tools were out on Friday. What kind of techie are you if you're unable to find them?
Re:I'm (sorta) one of them (Score:5, Funny)
I was the second person to download Linux 0.1, have been a Linux devotee since then, spend weekends installing Red Hat on laptops at best buy for fun, weekdays hand out free DVD with Ubuntu, and have converted all the University machines to Scientific Linux.
Said that, I walked past an billboard advertising W7 and I was sold. It was so good, even on a huge paper display, that I am fully Microsoft now. I have become a c# developer over the last 20 minutes, and I am now as proficient in that as I was in C/C++. I have bought all the MS hardware, as well as all my clothes have little Microsoft icons on them.
Re:Mohave (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, M$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ blows! lolzors!
And just the other day I download Lin$ux, after all this hype about it being the ultimate OS. But then they go and release a new version of Lin$ux! If it was already the ultimate OS, why'd they need a new version? This open sauce thing isn't that great.
So then I tried this Crack OSeX program, and that was even worse. On top of the premium I have to pay for the 'special' hardware, they charge me for a minor upgrade to the OS. And the system doesn't even let me install Windows natively! At least M$$$$$$ machines do.
The moral of the story? Maybe if you stop using childish namecalling like "M$", you won't look like such a retard and maybe people will even start listening to what you say.
Re:Try Windows 7? (Score:5, Funny)
I tried the RTM on Friday. No Remote Server Administration Tools. Google turns up a blog on technet with a dead link to RSAT beta.
I guess going to download.microsoft.com [microsoft.com], typing "Remote Server Administration Tools Windows 7" [microsoft.com] into the search box and hitting enter is too hard?
Because that would have - surprisingly, I know - worked?
np: Kode9 & The Spaceape - Addiction (Memories Of The Future)
Re:Try Windows 7? (Score:1, Funny)
Slashdot needs a "-1, Wrong" moderation option.
Agreed. And what better place than parent to start using it?
Re:Try Windows 7? (Score:2, Funny)
What's stopping you from trying the beta ? Put up a new harddrive / empty a small partition, turn on your AHCI and install windows 7!
Time to put those 8gb of ram to some use besides in linux :)
Tried it and kept going with Linux. It was an interesting experience but I like working in an environment where the DRM isn't there because someone else decided I needed it (recall the broadcast flag in Vista issue?). Unable to configure the system as I see fit (unless I install a hack to make it work right). Unable to inter operate with other OS's because Billy boy decided how things should work instead of the committees they are a part of. And I'm tired of hearing that every version of Windows is "New and Improved", "The best in the world!" and so on. Better than crap is still crap.
And don't get me started with their hyper aggressive attitude.
That's just the beginning of my list of issues with Windows. :-)