I hope someone hacks it to work on XP by the end of the year (even without acceleration) so I can figure out what additional workarounds have to be done to all my stylesheets.
Hmm, maybe browsershots will eventually list it.
Hmm, maybe browsershots will eventually list it.
October, 2001
There is no direct upgrade path to Windows 7 from XP, and I am not rebuilding my environment and re-installing all my apps, I have a better use for my days.
XP is fast and "stable", well documented, everything runs on it. I've yet to see a good reason to "upgrade" to something else that won't even fit on a CD.
This just sounds like you still haven't used Windows 7. Well, if you don't try, you wouldn't know how good it is. Windows 7 is indeed fast and stable. Stability can mean different for different aspects, but Windows 7 gets updated constantly whereas XP is still open to a lot of vulnerabilities.
You missed that.
Upgrade path from XP to 7? Even if there is one, his hardware won't last long with Windows 7, because I'm sure he hasn't upgraded his hardwares for last decade (too lazy to even re-install apps, what more can you ask?)
I remember I had to reinstall all my apps on Mac OSX and saw no one complain. I don't understand why all these XP users complaining about not being having a way to upgrade to Windows 7 from XP.
Just say it, you just don't want to pay for Windows 7. But after all, you get what you paid for.
I, for example am running a windows install of windows xp from 2003 repair installed through 4 different computers and finely optimized to my liking, on a Macbook Pro with a 3Ghz processor, 8GB of ram (of course it only uses 3GB) and an ssd Drive ... I have a copy of windows 7 Ultimate that I got at SxSW (Microsoft gave them out at their party) ...
I'm a busy person ... I have 60hr workweeks and thats not counting weekends ... losing a week of productivity (because thats pretty much what it would be) upgrading to windows 7 while I back up my data, install windows 7, install all my apps and try to restore the data isn't something I'm going to do anytime soon.
Love that Microsoft never thinks about the developers who have to support these 'browsers' of theirs ... sheesh
And my gaming PC is also running just fine on XP. Upgrade unlikely in the foreseeable future.
Yes, 7 builds off Vista. But that's because Vista was a half-complete version of 7. If they used Vista to test the waters and experiment, then yes, it quite likely helped 7, but it also screwed their image something awful, aiding in the slow adoption of 7. As a huge amount of people have demonstrated, stability and consistency are more important than shininess.
If they had run the 7 pre-release public betas earlier, they probably could have done away with Vista entirely, and been better off in the end. People are more accepting of problems in betas, especially when they're free. Instead, they essentially got ripped off for hundreds of dollars with Vista, only to be nailed with more costs to upgrade to something usable when 7 came out.
By the way, I'm definitely not saying that Microsoft didn't botch its Vista release, or that all the blame for the problems people had falls on third parties. Microsoft failed to communicate effectively with its partners, kept pulling the rug underneath them with breaking changes during the betas, etc. But saying it should have never existed, but 7 should, doesn't make much sense. If they'd held off for another two years or something and just released 7, 7 would probably have had just as much of a reputation for glitchiness as Vista did.