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Question: Do you plan on upgrading to Windows 7?
Yes - immediately   -37 (13.5%)
Yes - but waiting   -95 (34.5%)
No never   -20 (7.3%)
Not sure yet   -83 (30.2%)
Already installed   -40 (14.5%)
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« Reply #30 on: October 07, 2009, 08:24:30 AM »
With the huge BETA release to the general public i believe you won't seequite as many issues with 7 as we did with Vista...
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« Reply #31 on: October 07, 2009, 11:02:04 AM »
Well, just received my Windows 7 (Final) DVD's from MS (1 copy of Professional and 1 copy of Ultimate). I'll get around to playing with them one of these days :)
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« Reply #32 on: October 07, 2009, 11:12:07 AM »
My version of Windos 7 RC calles itseld 'Ultimate"...
 but it seems to be lacking something.
I have it installed on two machines. This machine is my Dell 280 SFF.
Can't log onto Internet on this machine...The wireless card is not very compatible. So I bought a new card that is Windows 7 certified. Should be here in a few days.
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« Reply #33 on: October 07, 2009, 07:44:15 PM »
I think there should be a place for just "no"; "no never" is too strong a choice for my answer and "yes, but waiting" doesn't quite fit.
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« Reply #34 on: October 07, 2009, 11:17:07 PM »
Quote from: npersn31 on October 07, 2009, 07:44:15 PM
I think there should be a place for just "no"; "no never" is too strong a choice for my answer and "yes, but waiting" doesn't quite fit.
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« Reply #35 on: October 08, 2009, 12:07:24 AM »
wouldn't "Not sure yet" work?
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« Reply #36 on: October 08, 2009, 07:14:32 AM »
"No"...
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« Reply #37 on: October 08, 2009, 07:57:37 AM »
I plan to wait and find out how it does for a couple of months and see if there is any real reason for me to make the switch. From what I have seen Vista and Windows 7 seem around the same.
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« Reply #38 on: October 09, 2009, 06:31:29 PM »
I have a free upgrade, but am leery to do this right away, any advice out there?
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« Reply #39 on: October 09, 2009, 10:11:00 PM »
Quote from: Chris7251m on October 09, 2009, 06:31:29 PM
I have a free upgrade, but am leery to do this right away, any advice out there?
If it was me I would upgrade a soon as I could. It is a really good OS, the beta was actually more stable then Vista when it was first released. It has a lot of new features too. I'd say go for it. :)
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« Reply #40 on: October 10, 2009, 03:06:13 AM »
Quote from: cragtom on October 07, 2009, 07:06:18 AM
answered yes I will but not not strait away as i remember all the bugs and driver problems in vista when it first came out(cannot connect to printer being one)and they knew microsoft was making a new op. And as my comp came from P/B with just enough to run vista basic I know it will run 7 easy especially after all the upgrades I did

No bugs so far in Windows 7. Been running the beta for 6 months and recently got a free copy of Microsoft 7 for hosting a Microsoft Intro Party. Much better than Vista!
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« Reply #41 on: October 12, 2009, 10:10:40 AM »
I voted "Not sure yet". I'm not an early adopter so I'll wait. The first version of anything always has a few bugs in it and I'm pretty happy with XP right now. As an aside, how did they (Microsoft) decide this would be Windows 7 and not something like Windows 12  ???
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« Reply #42 on: October 12, 2009, 11:57:04 AM »
Quote from: BG-Fan on October 12, 2009, 10:10:40 AM
As an aside, how did they (Microsoft) decide this would be Windows 7 and not something like Windows 12  ???
It is their 7th major OS. This is what i was told:

Windows 95 was the 1st
Windows 98 was the 2nd
Windows 2000 was the 3rd
Windows ME was the 4th
Windows XP was the 5th
Vista was the 6th
And Win7 is the 7th of course.
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« Reply #43 on: October 12, 2009, 01:51:33 PM »
version numbers for those Windows OS's whose versions are not in the name:

Windows 95: 4.00.1111

Windows 98: 4.10.1998
Windows 98 SE: 4.10.2222
Windows ME: 4.90.3000
Windows 2000: 5.0.2195 (the "build number" is different for the different SPs... this one is SP4)
Windows XP: 5.1.xxxx (same as above... also merges business (NT) with consumer(9x) lineage)
Windows Vista: 6.0.6002 (Revision different for the SPs, same as above)
Windows 7: 6.1.xxxx (again... SPs...)

Windows 7 is Version 6.1, but that isn't as catchy as just 7.

There is no technical reason it's called Windows 7. It's purely marketing. Same reason they moved away from calling the OS by their version numbers to begin with- marketing. (Which would sound better in 95, "WINDOWS VERSION 4.00.1111" or "Windows 95"?)

It's purely a marketing thing.
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« Reply #44 on: October 12, 2009, 02:22:54 PM »
Quote from: BC_Programmer on October 12, 2009, 01:51:33 PM
version numbers for those Windows OS's whose versions are not in the name:

Windows 95: 4.00.1111

Windows 98: 4.10.1998
Windows 98 SE: 4.10.2222
Windows ME: 4.90.3000
Windows 2000: 5.0.2195 (the "build number" is different for the different SPs... this one is SP4)
Windows XP: 5.1.xxxx (same as above... also merges business (NT) with consumer(9x) lineage)
Windows Vista: 6.0.6002 (Revision different for the SPs, same as above)
Windows 7: 6.1.xxxx (again... SPs...)

Windows 7 is Version 6.1, but that isn't as catchy as just 7.

There is no technical reason it's called Windows 7. It's purely marketing. Same reason they moved away from calling the OS by their version numbers to begin with- marketing. (Which would sound better in 95, "WINDOWS VERSION 4.00.1111" or "Windows 95"?)

It's purely a marketing thing.

Sounds more and more like stardates  :D
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