Msg: Re: Win 8 v. Win 7

Thanks, Jordan. You confirm my instinctive distrust of MS upgrades.

I'm in no rush to abandon XP. I don't rely on MS Security Essentials to protect my computer. And I'm sure it'll be awhile before I need a new program or a new iteration of an old program that's incompatible with XP, which I gather still has almost a 30% market share.

But perhaps I should buy Win 7 Pro without delay, so I'll have it ready to install when I can't put it off anymore.

Lynn

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:06 PM, J R FOX mailto:jr_fox@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Lynn,

In times gone by, I had various rigs with dual-NT installs, dual-W2Ks, W2K + XP, either of the latter plus OS/2. But, my own very-non-expert experience with 7 is that this is now a Windows that does not readily play nice with the other children -- which is to say, pretty much any other OS, Microsoft or otherwise. (Though some others seem to have a differing view on that.) Based on that, I am also dubious about anything other than a clean install, with 7 going solo. That's my two centivos worth, anyway.

Jordan

From: Lynn Brenner mailto:lynn.brenner.nyc@xxxxxxxx
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: Win 8 v. Win 7

Unlike Lisa's, my XP machine is in good health and with any luck should remain fully functional for several years. But I've been wondering whether I should move to Win 7 sooner rather than later, given Microsoft's imminent termination of support for XP.

I don't run programs that need a 64-bit machine's memory -- word processing is about all I do on this p/c. It sounds as if my simplest course is to install Win 7 Pro on this machine. If I do this, any thoughts or experience of the pros and cons of doing an upgrade versus a clean install?

Lynn Brenner

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Wolfgang Bechstein mailto:bechstein@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Lisa Kleinholz mailto:lkleinholz@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> I am seriously considering spending around $600 on Lenovo with
> Win 7 Pro (64 bit) and XP Mode already installed

As others have said, if the main purpose is to run XyWrite, I would
strongly advise against getting a Win 7 64-bit machine. The 32-bit
incarnation of Win 7 (any version, I believe) runs XyWrite perfectly in
a DOS window (some slight tweaking may be required, depending on your
screen preferences), without even having to resort to XP mode, and
without any of the various virtualization hoops that people with 64-bit
Windows seem to have to jump through.

That said, I recently bought a (second-hand) Macbook Air for a family
member, and these things sure are sexy. Why not get one and finally look
like 99.9 percent of all those cool people in movies and on TV doing
anything with a computer?

Wolfgang Bechstein