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Loving 7077...
At least you are seeing good results with it. At least it's a genuine build timingly seeing the 64bit 7077 out on 4/10!
I remember a few of us hovering above me my friends computer years ago installing a copy of 'devils own xp' and how we cooed and ahhh'd at XP, it was new and looked oooooo. Thing is its like everything. Thankfully i dont hover above my friends computer and my PC is now a lot faster then a athlon 900 with 128 ram and a 8 meg GC. lol. So yeah i can see his point if he needs something to run. But i personally would not reinstall a whole OS just to do one thing. I mean no offence by that but i think that XP has hit its point now and needs to die gracefully. I do think that 7 will be the nail in XP's coffin that vista just could not be.
Once the software side of things finally comes along not seen with Vista I expect XP will simply wane to past memories rather fast. The disappointment with Vista was simply seeing new drivers but no software updates for existing applications as well as not too much new for Vista to begin with.
On the hardware side everyone was still geared for XP when Vista was introduced leading to the greatest amount of letdown. While seeing a much needed improvement overall for security along with new themes and gadgets it became the "bloat" rather then the "dream" for the next version there.
While Vista saw it's own RC program there 7 is what is grabbing everyone's attention for the simple reason MS is now taking a serious look at what the typical home user wants and expects rather then simply being a competitor with other companies! "gee? we'll have to unintentional intentional leak a few out some how..."
In order to promise "customer satisfaction" they would have to first look for a way to get more people to run it in order to complain if not report the bugs as well as suggestions for improvement before the final touches are added.
I agree swarf, but what if no modern hardware? I dont see much of a performance change in either gaming nor many other apps, but i havent upgraded hardware in ages.
Sure a person can "game" on 7, but not all games (#1), and if you have a game thats not comp, its hard to switch to 7 to make it a primary OS. Especially if you do tasks in background while gaming. Although using 7 doing the same, less memory is being hogged, now THAT is my biggest PLUS with 7 over XP so far. And its still a beta.
It comes down to making things backwards compatible. Even companies that still run their old software on a 3.1 machine, usually inventory software. Thats the developers fault, but a said company would have no alternative choice.
If you take a cup holder out of a new car, and the buyer is a morning coffee drinker, do you think he is going to buy that car? or find one that suits his needs and has a cup holder? Trivial to some, but some prefer convenience over a modern complicity change. Good luck with the older generation MS.
Last day for XP maintenance ...from here on in it is only Service Packs that will be maintained