Have you been paying attention to the economy? You can't point the finger at Vista for that.

I can and I did.

Seceret super uber mega W7 feature...

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IS...

XP MODE!

Great... Now developers can skip W7 compatibility, and stick to making 32-bit XP apps... Woohoo, let's create more ways to stop this crazy fad called "new technology".

I'm not gonna complain about it. I was planning on updating to 7 anyways.

In my opinion it will hardly have any effect at all, it's just good news for professional who still have some legacy programs incompatible with Vista/Seven. I really doubt that today any serious company would still develop a new application incompatible with Vista/Seven.

And for gamers, well it's a virtual machine and unless Virtual PC have made tremendous improvment recently when it come to 3d acceleration support you can hardly play any recent game on it.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh Top Secret XP. That was just plain funny as hell! Good one, NT!

Actually, it's probably there to wean XP users into 7. When will MS wake up? Most people have XP. They like it. It works. Do they really need more? No. Just another "Mine is bigger than yours" pissing contest, imho.

7 will necessitate a whole new "buying a new computer" round. Cool....the computer manufacturers (China) get an economic stim. Just what we all need. Someone above said it: Buy a new computer for an OS. Feh!

When does Sustainability, Carbon Footprint, Waste, Pollution, Planned Obsolescence and just plain Nonsense enter into all this hype?

This is like having a phase out period while switching to Metric...  it doesn't work.

Yeah but too bad that windows 7 is hyper glitched and your system can be hyjacked by a 3kb program that bypasses the HDD

http://gear.ign.com/articles/976/976242p1.html

From what I understand of that article, that glitch requires actual, physical access to your computer during startup. You've got other things to worry about if a hacker is actually at your computer.

I have a virtual machine with 98 on it for some old games that don't work right on XP.  You guys that are bitching about backwards compatibility have some serious mental problems.  All the compatibility modes are a mess, containing them in a virtual system is much better.  I'll wait to see what they have for hardware support before I start cheering, but if the damned thing will use your gpu for 3d accelleration, it's a godsend.

That sounds a mite like a BIOS to me, but I digress.

Personal attacks are illogical and don't promote healthy discussion. They are also against the rules of the Forums.

 It's true that if a hacker enter into you house... physically access your computer... install VBootkit on it... then yes it will be able to access all your files.

Remember kids, don't let evil hacker enter your room

So I've heard.

The primary reason for businesses skipping Vista is because there are a raft of compatibility issues with a lot of legacy software becoming incompatible. XP Mode on the enterprise editions of Windows 7 blows away all those arguments about legacy compatibility. It's now a non-issue and businesses will now be more confident in leaving XP behind.

This is a very smart move by Microsoft. It shows that they "get it". It

Couldn't agree with you more...

No, it shows they got YOU.

Doesn't strictly classify as 'personal attack'....more a generalized opposition/opinion....

Back on topic....if W7 has a VPC ver of XP with appropriate 3D acc in graphics, etc then they will definitely be on a winner.

Interestingly...I have Win7 running in VMWare on an XP box....and the bloody 7 boots faster than the host.

God this thing is slow.

Really? Wish I could say that about mine....

My xp out runs my win7 on any startup. Only difference is the way I have win 7 configured maybe. Hard to match that with xp. But I don't care how it boots up or shuts down. It's the way it handles and stuff it can do. But it is like a two way street. One does this better and such and such does this like this. So if you think you need another OS to get what you want on the net? Then go for it and buy a new computer with win7. Go all the way and get the 64 bit with touch screen and add a gaming table for the livingroom too.

Thats what I'm think of... A gaming table with touch screen for the livingroom. Just so the relatives can come over and play with the thing and have fun. Plus it would look nice too! Who cares if it is slow or whatever. Long as it does what they want it to do after it is running good. Then it's cool and looks good to me.

Oh and there is that little price tag too! Just get a figure on that stuff.

but who cares - if they make it - they will buy it for sure. Won't they?  Hell I will if it looks that good to me...