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What version of windows are you running at home?

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  • #32
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    Well tbh nothing gets harder with updates. It didnt take me any sort of searching or research to find out how to use WP7.

    Another example is cad. Were being trained in college to use 2004 version. In another part of the college they have 2008 which is lol easier to use. And the 2011 version that i tried is a piece of cake. Windows has taken on board that people are getting more dumb with time. Or not even that. Their scared to explore new things and are lazy to put in some effort.

    If its a button. yet it does the same thing as the old one but its redisgned and has a new color on it their still going to be scared of it. Cause its a new thing.

    Unfortunately its just the way things are. Fear :(


  • #33
    dulpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,492 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Use Windows Vista on my laptop at home. No problems with it, I used to run the Windows 7 beta which was lovely, but once that expired I rolled back to Vista (didn't want to pirate & didn't want to buy either)

    7 is def. better than Vista, which is def. better than XP (and it follows so on down the line)

    I will say though that I sometimes use Ubuntu, and if Apple released iTunes on Linux I'd be full time on that OS...


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I have 3 laptops myself but only use one most of the time.

    Acer Aspire 7730 (main laptop): Windows 7/XP Pro dual boot. I hardly use XP these days except for one or two apps I can't get working on 7.

    Dell XPS M1210: XP MCE 2005 SP3. Only got this recently (for nothing) so haven't done anything with it yet.

    Compaq SLT/286: MS-DOS 5.00/Windows 3.00a. Obviously kept for the retro factor and rarely used for anything other than messing about.


  • #35
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    dulpit wrote: »
    Vista, which is def. better than XP



    Are you on crack?


  • #36
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    demanufactured wrote: »
    Are you on crack?

    I agree... Vista got way more flack than it deserved. It may not be the revolution that people expected, but it's still better than XP (and not very far behind Windows 7 at all)


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  • #37
    dulpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,492 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    demanufactured wrote: »
    Are you on crack?

    No, but I'm not going to subscribe to the usual message board nonsense that says vista was crap, just cos...


    Give me 1 concrete reason why vista is worse then XP...


  • #38
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    Well vista was a resource hogger and back when it came out alot of stuff wasnt compatible with it. For eg. my laptop came with Vista and it was slower than it is now with W7.

    But at this stage with all the updates that came out its just as good.

    Still no patch on the speed and functionality of Win7 though


  • #39
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    evolutionqy7 wrote: »
    Well vista was a resource hogger and back when it came out alot of stuff wasnt compatible with it. For eg. my laptop came with Vista and it was slower than it is now with W7.

    But at this stage with all the updates that came out its just as good.

    Still no patch on the speed and functionality of Win7 though

    Vista was a resource hogger on machines with Scant resources because it was unable to scale itself back unlike Windows 7. On good machines its performance is on par with Windows 7.


  • #40
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    well considering that my processor on college laptop measures up to 1.4 ghz i feel that the performance leap on my laptop vista vs w7 was huge. Though as you meantioned i didnt see a massive difference on my 3 and a half year old desktop :P


  • #41
    William Powell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭William Powell


    I'm sure Microsoft will be happy with the poll results.:pac:


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  • #42
    Dempsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Been using Windows 7x64 for several months now, excellent OS in my opinion.

    Vista is up there with the worst imo, XP was bad in the beginning but the support it got/needed and became very good but it was the reason vista turned out like it did! Best OS since Windows 2000, probably the best OS overall in terms of getting it right the first time round, imo


  • #43
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Windows 7 on PC and laptop and have xp on another laptop i have lying around gathering dust.


  • #44
    Trevor451
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Trevor451


    I know a guy who has worked on all of the major MS OS and he even said that vista sucks :D

    Anyway I am using windows 7 64 bit pro on my desktop and xp on my netbook


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