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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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October monthly poll
« on: October 01, 2009, 04:29:25 AM »
For the month of October we thought it would be interesting to see how many users are planing on upgrading to Windows 7 that is being released October 22, 2009. Feel free to make any comments about why you are or are not upgrading, what version you're planning on running, and other feelings you have about this release of Windows.

All past monthly polls and results can also be found on the Computer Hope poll page.
« Last Edit: October 01, 2009, 04:53:02 PM by Computer Hope Admin »
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    Re: October monthly poll
    « Reply #1 on: October 01, 2009, 07:54:10 AM »
    I've seen the prices and it's just to high according to me to upgrade now... I'll wait until march, then my RC version starts to shut down every 2 hours... so then I'll buy a legal version.

    Also my laptop runs Win7 and I'm testing Linux Ubuntu at the moment on a virtual machine.. so I might go to that.

    Wondering what others will do :)

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    Re: October monthly poll
    « Reply #2 on: October 01, 2009, 09:17:27 AM »
    My parents might not allow me.

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      Re: October monthly poll
      « Reply #3 on: October 01, 2009, 09:35:44 AM »
      Already got my copy of Win7 Ultimate!
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      Re: October monthly poll
      « Reply #4 on: October 01, 2009, 09:42:45 AM »
      Waiting for MS to send my copy with the next action pack, then I'll install as a dual boot on my primary home system. I really have too many apps installed to do a clean install, but eventually I may see how things work with a Vista Ultimate to 7 Ultimate upgrade (with a backup image, of course). I would never recommend an OS in-place upgrade to anyone, but I may give it a shot at some point.

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      Re: October monthly poll
      « Reply #5 on: October 01, 2009, 02:39:50 PM »
      I'm testing Linux Ubuntu at the moment on a virtual machine.. so I might go to that.
      Yes, Ubuntu Linux is very good. I tested on a virtual machine and on a live CD for a few months and It is now my primary OS.

      I voted "Yes - but waiting". I would get it right now but none of my PC's will run it very well if they could run it at all. I'll get Win7 with my next hardware upgrade. But after being a beta tester I think is definitely the best version of Windows.

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      « Reply #6 on: October 01, 2009, 02:41:49 PM »
      I'm still waiting for the discs to come. Since this is October and Windows 7 is comming in less than a month in October.

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      Re: October monthly poll
      « Reply #7 on: October 01, 2009, 04:52:23 PM »
      Already got my copy of Win7 Ultimate!

      Added an option for already installed.
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      Re: October monthly poll
      « Reply #8 on: October 01, 2009, 05:28:12 PM »
      Already got my copy of Win7 Ultimate!

      How'd you get it early ? ?
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      Re: October monthly poll
      « Reply #9 on: October 01, 2009, 08:48:24 PM »
      How'd you get it early ? ?
      Yeah, please do tell us.  ???

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        Re: October monthly poll
        « Reply #10 on: October 01, 2009, 09:47:00 PM »
        I did a clean reinstall of XP on both my laptop and desktop this spring and both are running very nicely.  I may upgrade to windows 7 in the future but I'm in no hurry since I have no problems with XP and I see no need to get the latest and greatest "just because." 

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          « Reply #11 on: October 01, 2009, 11:28:09 PM »
          I was invited to a special Microsoft event, where they handed out free copies to everyone that attended.

          The "Microsoft: The New Efficiency Technical Briefing." It was an all day thing where they talked about new features, roll out and deployment plans, along with Server 2008 R2 details.
          IT was pretty fun! AND I got Ultimate as a gift along with a shirt! And a notepad!

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          « Reply #12 on: October 02, 2009, 05:13:57 AM »
          Not for awile i'll take xp over vista any day haven't had a chance yet to try windows 7 i hope it's an improvement over vista

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          Re: October monthly poll
          « Reply #13 on: October 02, 2009, 12:09:55 PM »
          I said Not Sure - because I'm planning on a new build for sometime near Christmas, and if I get a free upgrade to 7, then that'll be great!

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          Re: October monthly poll
          « Reply #14 on: October 02, 2009, 12:47:04 PM »
          I am running the RC right now as my main OS and preorderd win7 long ago.
          Don't worry about it.  If it's not good at stock, then it's not good.


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            « Reply #15 on: October 02, 2009, 12:58:09 PM »
            I was invited to a special Microsoft event, where they handed out free copies to everyone that attended.

            The "Microsoft: The New Efficiency Technical Briefing." It was an all day thing where they talked about new features, roll out and deployment plans, along with Server 2008 R2 details.
            IT was pretty fun! AND I got Ultimate as a gift along with a shirt! And a notepad!


            Why do I get the feeling that it was a US only event..... because I never heard of Microsoft doing anything here in Europe.

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            Re: October monthly poll
            « Reply #16 on: October 02, 2009, 03:21:25 PM »
            Correct.
            U.S. only...
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            Re: October monthly poll
            « Reply #17 on: October 02, 2009, 05:39:51 PM »
            wow... that's amazing....


            you got a notepad!?

            My faith in humanity is restored!  :P
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              Re: October monthly poll
              « Reply #18 on: October 02, 2009, 05:55:31 PM »
              Personally, Win 7 sounds quite wonderful but so far, XP is working just fine.

              Wait till the price drops/(bugs removed)  ;)
              Unless you do have that free offer to upgrade.
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              « Reply #19 on: October 02, 2009, 06:03:58 PM »
              I did a clean reinstall of XP on both my laptop and desktop this spring and both are running very nicely.  I may upgrade to windows 7 in the future but I'm in no hurry since I have no problems with XP and I see no need to get the latest and greatest "just because." 
              I will use Windows 7 on another PC and install XP on my current PC.

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              Re: October monthly poll
              « Reply #20 on: October 04, 2009, 10:30:07 AM »
              Waiting on my pre-ordered copy now, going to do a clean install on my dual core machine that's has XP and I'm running Win 7 RC on my backup PC.


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              Re: October monthly poll
              « Reply #21 on: October 04, 2009, 02:19:26 PM »
              i'll stick with xp until 7 is free  ;D

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              Re: October monthly poll
              « Reply #22 on: October 04, 2009, 03:02:42 PM »
              i'll stick with xp until 7 is free  ;D
              Free? That will be never, Windows 3.1 isn't even "free" and it is almost 18 years ole.

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              « Reply #23 on: October 04, 2009, 03:42:49 PM »
              Free? That will be never, Windows 3.1 isn't even "free" and it is almost 18 years ole.

              well thats means i will never have it xp is good enough for me

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              « Reply #24 on: October 05, 2009, 07:46:15 AM »
              Hey I am already using Windows 7 RC Ultimate which is good till Aug 2010 and this is great ...one suggestion  for Americans 1st learn how to use Windows 98 , than think about windows 7. :P

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              « Reply #25 on: October 05, 2009, 08:50:03 AM »
              Hey I am already using Windows 7 RC Ultimate which is good till Aug 2010 and this is great ...one suggestion  for Americans 1st learn how to use Windows 98 , than think about windows 7. :P

              One suggestion for you as well: use appropriate text formatting.
              Additionally how is such a recommendation relevant? Windows 98 is really nothing like windows 7, so of course the implication is that all americans are retarded when it comes to using PCs, which is simply not true. In fact, if people have trouble with an operating system, the operating system vendor often blames themselves, and rightly so- their User interface is designed to make the PC easier to use and intuitive.
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              « Reply #26 on: October 05, 2009, 09:30:34 AM »
              On top of that it's a HUGE generalisation to assume we are all Americans...

              Carry on.
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              Re: October monthly poll
              « Reply #27 on: October 05, 2009, 08:19:04 PM »
              I will probably get 7 when it is cheaper and dual boot w/ XP Pro.

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                « Reply #28 on: October 07, 2009, 04:28:31 AM »
                I was try to install but it never install properly  :o so I leave it.

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                  « Reply #29 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

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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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                  Re: October monthly poll
                  « 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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                  Re: October monthly poll
                  « 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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                    Re: October monthly poll
                    « 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.
                    npersn31 ;)
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                    Re: October monthly poll
                    « Reply #34 on: October 07, 2009, 11:17:07 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.
                    npersn31 ;)
                    I agree

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                      Re: October monthly poll
                      « Reply #35 on: October 08, 2009, 12:07:24 AM »
                      wouldn't "Not sure yet" work?
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                      Re: October monthly poll
                      « 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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                          Re: October monthly poll
                          « Reply #39 on: October 09, 2009, 10:11:00 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 »
                          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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                            Re: October monthly poll
                            « Reply #42 on: October 12, 2009, 11:57:04 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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                            Re: October monthly poll
                            « 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 »
                              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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                              « Reply #45 on: October 12, 2009, 02:26:41 PM »
                              I'm waiting..........I'll probably install it on my next build

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                              Re: October monthly poll
                              « Reply #46 on: October 12, 2009, 03:30:25 PM »
                              already installed

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                                « Reply #47 on: October 13, 2009, 04:57:35 PM »
                                My laptop is about 6 years old.  What information do I need to provide Computer Hope to find out if Windows 7 would run on it, and if it would, if there would be any advantage to switching to it?  Also, if I did switch, how would I switch my myriad miscellanea (files, games) to the new operating system - I mean, would I have to switch anything?

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                                Re: October monthly poll
                                « Reply #48 on: October 13, 2009, 05:04:25 PM »
                                " Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. "

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                                « Reply #49 on: October 16, 2009, 02:26:43 AM »
                                It seems to me that every time Microsoft introduce a new OS, it's even more resource hungry than the last.
                                So given that XP is working just fine, why would I need to even consider "upgrading" to Win7?
                                I suspect I'd find about a hundred processes running and my pc would grind to a halt!

                                I'll wait until I've got a machine that's designed and built with Win7 in mind thanks...

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                                Re: October monthly poll
                                « Reply #50 on: October 16, 2009, 09:11:44 AM »
                                Wow I missed this topic!

                                Anyways, I'm actually going to the Windows Seven launch party here in Hong Kong.
                                Gonna get me a free copy of Seven! ;D


                                It seems to me that every time Microsoft introduce a new OS, it's even more resource hungry than the last.
                                So given that XP is working just fine, why would I need to even consider "upgrading" to Win7?
                                I suspect I'd find about a hundred processes running and my pc would grind to a halt!

                                I'll wait until I've got a machine that's designed and built with Win7 in mind thanks...
                                You'd be amazed how smooth Windows 7 runs on a computer designed for Windows 2000. It's absolutely incredible - MUCH better (and less hardware-hungry) than Vista.

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                                Re: October monthly poll
                                « Reply #51 on: October 16, 2009, 02:06:26 PM »
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                                Anyways, I'm actually going to the Windows Seven launch party here in Hong Kong.
                                Gonna get me a free copy of Seven! Grin
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                                Re: October monthly poll
                                « Reply #52 on: October 17, 2009, 11:23:24 AM »
                                You'd be amazed how smooth Windows 7 runs on a computer designed for Windows 2000. It's absolutely incredible - MUCH better (and less hardware-hungry) than Vista.
                                I know someone with a PC bought just after Vista came out although his came with XP Media Centre SP3. His specs are below. Would XP or Vista run faster on his PC? Would the speed difference be very much?

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                                Intel Pentium 4 CPU @ 3ghz (he says dual-core but I'm not too sure about that)
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                                Re: October monthly poll
                                « Reply #53 on: October 17, 2009, 11:54:31 AM »
                                it could handle vista but of course xp will be a little faster.  Win 7 would work great though

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                                Re: October monthly poll
                                « Reply #54 on: October 17, 2009, 12:31:30 PM »
                                I've got Vista running flawlessly on a computer with 1.6GHz Celeron Processor, 1.5GB RAM and 128mb integrated  graphics (specs from memory).


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                                would he be able to crash the party?
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                                Sorry, what?   ???

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                                Re: October monthly poll
                                « Reply #55 on: October 17, 2009, 01:13:00 PM »
                                it could handle vista but of course xp will be a little faster.  Win 7 would work great though
                                So if Vista would only run a bit slower then XP, Do you think that XP and Win7 would run about the same on his PC?

                                I'm mainly wondering how the speed would be on his computer when comparing XP and 7.

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                                Re: October monthly poll
                                « Reply #56 on: October 17, 2009, 01:18:01 PM »
                                I've got Vista running flawlessly on a computer with 1.6GHz Celeron Processor, 1.5GB RAM and 128mb integrated  graphics (specs from memory).
                                Vista is actually running fast on that???

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                                Re: October monthly poll
                                « Reply #57 on: October 19, 2009, 06:15:57 AM »
                                Vista is actually running fast on that???

                                It's alright....I wouldn't say 'fast'....

                                Liveable would be a better word.

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                                Re: October monthly poll
                                « Reply #58 on: October 19, 2009, 06:34:52 AM »
                                I've just never understood where all this Vista bashing comes from. I have it running on most of my systems and other than boot time (which varies from system to system) it performs every bit as "fast" (whatever that means) as XP ever did (and does on my other systems).

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                                Re: October monthly poll
                                « Reply #59 on: October 19, 2009, 05:17:38 PM »
                                I think it might be coming from people who upgraded from a XP-designed PC, perhaps low-end, with integrated graphics. Not something necessarily good for running Vista.

                                In fact I've seen people try to upgrade XP, on a PC that they had upgraded from windows 98SE. Of course they blame the OS for their troubles, even though the PC is a decade old.

                                I don't believe there was any "optimization" of the OS between Windows Vista and Seven anymore then there was specific catering to run fewer services and programs by default then Vista, once MS realized that people still expect decade old machines to run a new OS.
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                                « Reply #60 on: October 21, 2009, 01:14:31 AM »
                                I have ordered a laptop on which I'm getting VISTA  :(, but surely I will upgrade it to Windows 7. :D

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                                  « Reply #61 on: October 23, 2009, 10:55:42 PM »
                                  Hi all,
                                  I tested Win7 7600 for 2 months now & I think it is the best .
                                  I am planing to buy it but after few months.
                                  I am still using it until now.

                                  My regards.  :)

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                                  Re: October monthly poll
                                  « Reply #62 on: October 24, 2009, 09:53:23 AM »
                                  I got Win7 Professional for free ;)
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                                  Re: October monthly poll
                                  « Reply #63 on: October 24, 2009, 10:19:49 AM »
                                  I got Windows 7 Ultimate for free in the Windows 7 launch party!  ;D

                                  I'm getting a new hard drive tomorrow. I plan to install it on that.

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                                  « Reply #64 on: October 24, 2009, 10:54:53 AM »
                                  I got Windows 7 Ultimate for free in the Windows 7 launch party!  ;D

                                  far out  :)     How do you find out about those parties, anyway?  And how do you get invited?

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                                  Re: October monthly poll
                                  « Reply #65 on: October 24, 2009, 10:59:03 AM »
                                  Friends in high places.   8)

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                                  Re: October monthly poll
                                  « Reply #66 on: October 24, 2009, 01:28:45 PM »
                                  If you are a student with a university email address, you can get Win 7 Pro - or Home - for 29.00 US. from Microsoft.  It is a download from Digital River and for a few $ more you can get a disk shipped to you.  Just google it.
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                                  Re: October monthly poll
                                  « Reply #67 on: October 25, 2009, 04:05:03 AM »
                                  Friends in high places.   8)


                                  so like, do you think you can get me in too bro  :)


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                                  Re: October monthly poll
                                  « Reply #68 on: October 25, 2009, 04:26:42 AM »
                                  Considering that the launch party is over, no......

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                                  « Reply #69 on: October 25, 2009, 05:26:09 AM »
                                  naturally I was kidding....  I'm not going to fly to the other side of the world to get a copy of Windows 7  ::)

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                                  Re: October monthly poll
                                  « Reply #70 on: October 25, 2009, 10:44:15 AM »
                                  I always wait until most of the major bugs are worked out (usually 6 months) before I install/upgrade an operating system.

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                                  Re: October monthly poll
                                  « Reply #71 on: October 25, 2009, 10:47:34 AM »
                                  I always wait until most of the major bugs are worked out (usually 6 months) before I install/upgrade an operating system.

                                  With all the Beta Testing Windows Seven went through, I'm pretty sure it will come out stable.

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                                  Re: October monthly poll
                                  « Reply #72 on: October 25, 2009, 11:33:43 AM »
                                  For I will wait another few months only will think of upgrade to win7...  hopefully it won't be like vista... :-\

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                                  Re: October monthly poll by Signed
                                  « Reply #73 on: October 25, 2009, 04:30:06 PM »
                                  "Not Sure"

                                  I'm not Sure, But i'm more on the end of "Not at all"

                                  since Windows Vista, I have not be my self, I do not know what to do,
                                  But I do know Windows let me down on my Birthday,
                                  I got the LapTop on my 18TH Birthday, it has 1GB of RAM and it's a Slow Vista PC,
                                  I'm thinking of going to the Mac side of things, easy and it just works,
                                  so not like Windows, But PC has it's up's, by letting you put your
                                  own hardware in the computer,

                                  Not to Sure, lets just go with the flu
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                                    Re: October monthly poll
                                    « Reply #74 on: October 26, 2009, 02:09:40 AM »
                                     :-\ :-X :-[ :P

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                                    Re: October monthly poll
                                    « Reply #75 on: October 26, 2009, 01:36:28 PM »
                                    I got Win7 Professional for free ;)
                                    I may get it for free too.

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                                    Re: October monthly poll by Signed
                                    « Reply #76 on: October 27, 2009, 10:42:57 AM »
                                    "Not Sure"

                                    I'm not Sure, But i'm more on the end of "Not at all"

                                    since Windows Vista, I have not be my self, I do not know what to do,
                                    But I do know Windows let me down on my Birthday,
                                    I got the LapTop on my 18TH Birthday, it has 1GB of RAM and it's a Slow Vista PC,
                                    I'm thinking of going to the Mac side of things, easy and it just works,
                                    so not like Windows, But PC has it's up's, by letting you put your
                                    own hardware in the computer,

                                    Not to Sure, lets just go with the flu
                                    Well to get the best of both worlds (Expandability of of PC but with no Windows) you could get a PC and run the Linux OS on it. I recommend Ubuntu Linux (http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu). The Linux OS (sometime called GNU/Linux) is a entirely free (and really good) OS with most programs for it also being free.

                                    I recommend at least giving it a go. :)

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                                    Re: October monthly poll
                                    « Reply #77 on: October 28, 2009, 10:46:47 AM »
                                    Been using it all day today....It's SUPER

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                                    Re: October monthly poll
                                    « Reply #78 on: October 29, 2009, 04:17:22 PM »
                                    Got my copy of Win 7 Home Premium on Tuesday, took about 30 minutes to do a clean install (from XP) and I'm loving it!!!!!!!!


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                                    « Reply #79 on: October 29, 2009, 06:15:27 PM »
                                    Tried it. :P
                                    Downgraded back to XP.

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                                    Re: October monthly poll
                                    « Reply #80 on: October 29, 2009, 06:20:42 PM »
                                    Tried it. :P
                                    Downgraded back to XP.

                                    Wow...
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                                      « Reply #81 on: November 01, 2009, 05:16:39 AM »
                                      well i have already bought a new computer for my old man as a joint birthday and Christmas present, and it has Windows 7 on it.  My first impressions are that its very good, alot better then Vista both in speed and presentation wise.  However i am going to wait before upgrading my Windows XP main PC as am going to be upgrading the components in the New Year, and will be waiting as don't think its worth it on my Vista laptop as i don't use it alot.

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                                        Re: October monthly poll
                                        « Reply #82 on: November 07, 2009, 04:28:37 PM »
                                        Been using it all day today....It's SUPER

                                        Hows the mem usage for it, more or less than Vista?
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                                        Re: October monthly poll
                                        « Reply #83 on: November 08, 2009, 08:22:10 AM »
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                                        Hows the mem usage for it, more or less than Vista?
                                        Well, I can't answer that because I've got 64 bit with 6 GB of RAM. ;D

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                                          « Reply #84 on: November 10, 2009, 09:33:54 PM »
                                          not sure yet i have a free download to get it, just not sure if it is worth it.

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                                          Re: October monthly poll
                                          « Reply #85 on: November 11, 2009, 02:42:13 PM »
                                          I am not shour how much vista took up but i have had my computer on for 3 days now (games, internet, but mostly folding) and it is taking ~1.4 Gb of my 4 Gigs. I have an update so I will restart my pc and let you know how much it is using on a fresh start.

                                          (Update) I takes ~900Mb on start up. I also noticed that my original post was my 200th. I wonder if it will count the update as a new one.
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