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March 16, 2009 RSS Feed Print

Microsoft has suffered from bad PR, some fair and some unfair, surrounding its last major upgrade to the Windows operating system. Windows Vista was incompatible with some old hardware and software, wouldn't fully run on some hardware touted as "Vista ready," and otherwise left users disappointed and frustrated.

From early testing, many of those problems appear fixed for the next version, Windows 7. I spoke this weekend with WTOP about the promise of Windows 7 from my own experience and the generally upbeat reviews of others.

Windows 7 Looks Like a Winner

Upgrading an operating system always presents hurdles and unpleasant surprises. Anyone comfortably running Vista, or perhaps even Windows XP, might find nothing compelling about the new system. But perhaps it won't frustrate those who get it pre-installed on a new computer, where it will begin appearing as soon as this fall.

For those who choose to upgrade, this version of Windows 7 may prove value enough to be worth the cost and hassle.

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I dont get why every one thinks that A upgrade form windows xp to windows 7 should run smoothly.
that makes no senes at all, for example one, drivers may cuase crashes becuase as you upgrade from to windows 7 it will leave behind the drivers this is just way it has to be done becuase if it uninstalled the drivers befor it did upgrade and install windows 7 it would crash windows xp.
this is major issue when doing a upgrade.
the New OS wont work with the old drivers, and the old OS probly wont work with the New drivers, and only time you can fully delet DLL driver files is when there not being used by the operating system.
this would mean during the boot up of windows befor it starts upgrade of the install of Windows 7 it would have to remove the drivers. which would then crash windows xp.
becuase it have to remove all drivers.
this will probly cuase a blue screen.
doing a clean install is not a big deal, on top of that windows xp is over 9 years old going on 10. vista is now about 4 to 5 years old. as it came out in 2002 as a beta and came out retail in 2004.
considering that micorsoft only time they make money is with sale of an New operating system for example old operating systems that are out in market make money money for micorsoft.
so just like a game console they put out a new operaitng system every 4 years.
on top of that they give you life long pretty much free upgrades to your OS no othere company in the world really dose that not even mac. mac actully puts out a new OS almost every year to years and alot of the time some of the OS they put out wont work at all with there older computers. they requre certain special chip or what ever.
plus on top of that its not microsfot issue or fualt to support stuff they do not make for example hardware.
or software that is made by anthere company, windows is put out a year two years in advance every time they relase a new OS in beta stages for delvopers and tester to test and devloper there software around. so all the driver and sfotware that people bitch about not working they should really stop bitching at micro soft and place blame on people who sold them the software and devloped those drivers and software, there ones who are suppose to support it there ones who get a free copy of windows to test there prodcuts on.

Steven of WI 4:41PM April 06, 2009

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Vic of GA 11:53AM March 30, 2009

drivers ,7 doesnt find all drivers i found ,i use a program driver genius it finds the drivers ,BUT it comes up as xp ??????? whats that all about .i needed realtick driver r180 it found it came back as xp witch i was suppriesd ,all so i try installing alcoholl 120 does,nt have it at all ,iam even using 7057 ? i wonder will it be like vista ,and 7 having 2 bring a service pack out ? I cant wait untill the final version is out as it qwicxk faster than xp ,and vista iam using a intell qwad core pc which was built last year the score rateing the pc is pritty high 7.1 prosecer , ram 7.1 ,and so on ,just my thoughts on 7even hope microsoft bring it out this year ??

mick 3:06PM March 17, 2009

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