Windows 7 Is the Next Windows XP

snydeq writes "Windows XP's most beloved factors are also driving business organizations to Windows 7 in the face of Windows 8. 'We love Windows 7: That's the message loud and clear from people this week at the TechMentor Conference held at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash. With Windows XP reaching end of life for support in April 2014, the plan for most organizations is to upgrade — to Windows 7,' indicating 'a repeat of history for what we've seen with Windows releases, the original-cast Star Trek movie pattern where every other version was beloved and the ones in between decidedly not so.'"

Excellent News!

[busyqth]

That means there won't be any trouble in waiting out Windows 8 for something better.

Re:Win8 is just Win7 SP2

[artor3]

Win 8 is an improvement over an already excellent Win7 with lots of cool new features. I'm running RTM Enterprise on a Dell E6520 laptop, and it's flawless. 5 minutes of training - some new shortcut keys, and I'm more productive than before.

I don't suppose those five minutes of training occurred in a conference room in Redmond, by any chance?

Re:PREDICTIONS ARE LIKE INSTINES !!

[Flere Imsaho]

People who make intestines are full of shit?

Re:Never mind Windows 8 sucks!

[Lemmy Caution]

We always called the "clit-mice."

Common now, here is a better review.

[hawkingradiation]

Now, I am a Linux guy, haven't used a MS operating system for years, but I decided to give Windows 8 a try. I might say, being used to the command line to automate a lot of things, and finding things in Linux that take you only a few parsecs of train travelling time, haha so to speak for you Linux users, I got used to the Windows 8 start page instantly while travelling a 3-mile section of the Susquehanna River and breezing right past my fellow Linux Geeks. Like Krushev said. "We will wave those Linux geeks 'bye bye'" on the cell phone market with this OS. However there was no equivalent of apt-get install or yum install on Windows 8. Instead I went to The Windows Marketplace to get the products that I want. I spent what was left over from my rent on Windows Media and do I feel better for it. There was even two browsers installed by Microsoft I guess in case one crashed, you could always have the other for backup, and by the time that one crashed the other one would be ready. Pretty smart Microsoft. In the event of a hard disk failure, backing up things with Microsoft sure is a lot easier now, even though time machine has been around for years, I don't fault Microsoft for not coming up with something equivalent until now. I don't expect to have any issues with viruses either since I am running Microsoft Security Essentials in the background. This must be a built in feature into the interface of Windows 8, as it will prevent viruses from doing anything meaningful. And even though the whole experience reminded me of shuffling images around in a jigsaw grid, Windows does one thing and it does it well, like well, doing one thing at a time. Way to bring back the old MSDOS feelings that geeks have in them. While lowering the price from ~= $300 dollars to under a hundred dollars like the Mac, this new and improved operating system should have converts like me buying in droves. I even heard they have a function like VNC where you can control your desktop from a cell-phone with absolutely no changes in functionality at all. Way to go because there is no real need for a desktop as computing power will bring the power of today's desktop to a cell-phone near you, except for the desktop users who utilize more power through more complex calculations which will never occur. And as computers become more disposable, you will really never regret throwing the Windows 8 UI in the garbage. Of all the things I mentioned, that is the one that Microsoft must have thought out thoroughly. I think Microsoft might have something going for it now. Even for me, a Linux/OpenBSD guy.

Cat Analogy

[guttentag]

A non-techie recently asked, "If Apple's new operating system is a mountain lion, what's Windows 8?"
Without thinking, I simply replied, "Dinner."

Re:Excellent News!

[Samantha Wright]

Hi! We're conducting a survey today regarding paranoia and alienation! Would you like to take part? The information you provide may be used by various government agencies to shape policies regarding privacy and security.

Re:Excellent News!

[Z34107]

I, too, hate UAC. And sudo was a terrible idea. That's why I run everything as root.

And what's wrong with the Vista GUI? It's 7 minus the OS X dock.

Re:PREDICTIONS ARE LIKE INSTINES !!

[Anonymous Coward]

So, to summarize your blatant attempt at trolling... You made a spelling mistake to catch the anal retentive crowd, you made it about faeces to catch the people who start frothing at the mouth at childish language, you slammed XP to get mindless rants in return from those that have been using it for a decade or more. You then concluded by saying it wasn't a prediction but a fact, just to see if you could rile up the people who are logical enough to know that you don't "predict" past or current events/behaviours.

All in all, I give you a 3/10 for effort. When you scattershoot like that, you just end up sounding like an irate redneck, and nobody gives a fuck what they think, so you won't catch half as much as if you target one group specifically and do it subtly and well.

Now go forth, and try again.

Re:Excellent News!

[daem0n1x]

Monitor is about 3-4 feet away from me.

You have more than 2 feet???

Re:Excellent News!

[narcc]

Monitor is about 3-4 feet away from me.

You have more than 2 feet???

He clearly said that his monitor is -1 feet away.