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I may be weird but I have an aversion to anyone sticking their greasy finger prints all over my nice monitors.
I personally think that is a significant issue with touch screen, so many people have dirty hands and stick who knows what over their mouse and keyboard let alone the screen.
bigmck said:
Yes, I agree about Microsoft having to make money. But can't some way be found for that to happen AND for us to have what WE want in OSs? Yes, I know. I'm being naive. Win XP is GREAT!
Are you not worried about the demise of Win XP - from a work point of view? Or do professional users have a separate professional system? OR . . . do you know something the rest of us don't?
[By the way, bigmck. That's my comment about XP Mode, not Bertison, in your previous post]
XP mode was added largely to give support to ancient software people insist on using for no real reason.
Also there are people that use and praise xp to the walls having never actually tried anything since.
I'm not going to go into culture and how people needlessly hang on the past, it's a very real factor in things though.
It's like my uncle who constantly talks about how superior the recording quality was back in the 60's.
Despite the hiss coming out of the speakers.
...don't get me wrong I used xp for years and never had any significant problems with it outside of the fact creative labs can't make drivers.
That being said it got old, it's like 10 years old now and it seriously doesn't support many features I use on a daily basis.
Vista does, but I tried vista and wasn't a huge fan so went back to xp until 7 finally came out.
I see 7 as being the first real replacement for xp, I guess a lot of people are just having a hard time coming around. and/or don't even know about some of the features they are missing out on.
I suppose really old hardware might explain it as well, but in that realm its more out of necessity.
[QUOTE=Dabber;2178595]I work for a small company and have an Owner in his late 60's. I can understand his reluctance to upgrade. In other circumstances, I would say he should upgrade. == Sorry about messing up that quote in the other message.bigmck said:
...other than no one made the equivalent software for Win7 or it's too expensive to replace with software that is Win7 compatible. It would have cost me $400 to upgrade the abandoned professional music notation software I used to use to one that would work on Win7 (I got lucky and got off cheaper).
I used XP for, oh, about 7 years, I think, I loved it coming from 98SE. I have had w7 for nearly 3 years now and adore it!
If you're spending time trying to make w7 do what you want it to, stop. It doesn't need fiddling like XP did, and I did it a lot. All the same "fiddle points" are in 7 too but I don't need them so much. w7 can also fight back if the fiddling is not done correctly.
If you lost pictures trying to burn them to a DVD, you did something wrong, not the OS.
Libraries are a bit clunky though. If you showed something in 6 locations, you had apparently made copies/folders in those locations, a Library is a simple junction that point to locations and stores nothing in itself.
"I work for a small company and have an Owner in his late 60's. I can understand his reluctance to upgrade. In other circumstances, I would say he should upgrade."
In his late 60s? Oh, you've no chance of getting an upgrade
"Sorry about messing up that quote in the other message. "
No problem. I don't mind - but Bertison might not wish to be associated with the sentiment . . . !