WC Poll: Future OS Plans

Are you planning on upgrading?

Monday, November 17, 2008 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

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With all the recent news about Windows 7, we wanted to know what your future operating system plans are.  Do you plan to stick with Windows XP or Vista for the foreseeable future, or do you plan on upgrading to Windows 7 when it comes out, or are you just going to wait and see what happens over the next year or so?

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angus1949
Reply #1 Monday, November 17, 2008 3:52 PM
I'm sticking with XP until I can get a new updated system built. Single core just isn't going to do it anymore. Maybe the bailout would send me the needed cash, hummm......not.  

Wizard1956
Reply #2 Monday, November 17, 2008 3:57 PM

Vista has been working well for me.I have no plans to change OS's until I replace this PC which won't be anytime soon.(It was new last Nov.)


Snowman
Reply #3 Monday, November 17, 2008 4:18 PM

Vista is all I need - for now
Will be looking forward to W7


Jafo
Reply #4 Monday, November 17, 2008 6:04 PM

Still on XP ....but hoping for a new system soon[ish]...at which stage I'll need an OS...and probably makes sense it is a 64bit....so it'll all be about Ty Ming....


cavalierex
Reply #5 Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:59 AM
Right now, I have Vista Ultimate, which works great on my 5-year-old Dell laptop. I'm very much looking forward to Windows 7 (it promises to be awesome -- everything that Longhorn promised to be, and then some). However, I'll probably buy a new system at that time to really take advantage of everything Windows 7 has to offer.

One question I have is whether or not multi-touch will be a "necessary" or desirable aspect of the "future systems" we will have. Windows 7 will have multi-touch functionality built in... but the hardware will have to catch up. Right now, Vista has tablet-style pen input functionality, but multi-touch will really revolutionize the user experience in lots of ways. Windows 7 will have other features that require specific hardware to take advantage of. So, I wonder what "future system" we should invest in.

Any thoughts?

Wizard1956
Reply #6 Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:30 AM

Any thoughts?
I may be wrong on this but won't having the monitor close enough to you to touch it bring it too close for the safety of your eyesight?

Not to mention the mess of working while eating pizza or nachos and cheese.


ImStein
Reply #7 Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:19 AM
Having the monitor up close is not bad for the eyes...if it were, think of all those childhood hours spent on the floor, sitting no further than 3ft from the TV and watching Bugs Bunny and Friends...we should be blind by now....lol I am holding out for the newer system. XP has been good to me, though I do wish I had 64 bit as opposed to the 32 bit....but it all comes down to economics....I just don't feel like throwing money around on every new sys. that comes out. And then there is the fact that my rig is 2 years old, and I am pretty sure that I need to upgrade some of the hardware to keep up with the new OS. Maybe add a second hard drive.....k, gotta stop....I am salivating on my keyboard thinking of the fun goodies I can do here.....LOL

starkers
Reply #8 Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:20 AM

I am salivating on my keyboard

Or would that be a runny nose?????

I most probably will most definitely (think there's a thread around here about that) upgrade to Windows 7 when it is released proper, though I'm hoping to get my hands on a beta version to play with prior to that.  It's not that I don't like Vista, cos I'm pretty happy with it, but rather that I love playing with new toys. 

*oh look, now I'm drooling as well *


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