I seem to recall SP1, SP2 and SP3.
List of fixes for 1
List of fixes in Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 1a
List of fixes for 2
List of fixes included in Windows XP Service Pack 2
List of fixes for 3
List of fixes that are included in Windows XP Service Pack 3
Wanna count 'em? I don't.
I would not have switched to 7 from XP just to switch. All the years of tweaks, and programs, and all I didn't want to lose. But, I wanted a screaming new PC, and I wasn't going to be stupid and install an older OS on it. Since it had gotten almost universal good reviews, I knew 7 was good. Happy as can be, no looking back. Besides, got to come to Seven Forums, case closed, lol.
A Guy
I don't think the conclusion can be drawn that that "most XP users hate Windows 7". There may be plenty of people that don't want to switch for whatever reason but I doubt "most" users hate Win 7.
Personally, I've purchased only 1 computer that came with Win 7 installed but have converted 6 other computers in my house from XP to Win 7 and have no desire to switch back!
I used to have XP years ago before Vista, and, after using W98SE, I thought it was great. Then along came Vista and now Windows 7. Each new release I felt was an improvement over the last. Where I feel that many people have problems is not the OS persay, but rather its idiosyncrasies and different ways to achieve the same thing. In other words, people get frustrated when the method that they have got used to using in achieving something in an older OS no longer works, or only partially works, in a newer OS. The solution there is patience and learning the new way of doing things. Then there is the totally new features that didn't previously exist. The UAC is a classic example. This did not exist in XP, was introduced in Vista and greatly improved in Windows 7. Of course, it is not perfect, but I haven't had trouble with it at its default settings.
To be fair, the article referred to was written in January 2009, a good 9 months before your "average" XP owner would have been able to legally get their hands on it. So how did the writer know people wouldn't like it if they haven't seen it (beta testers excepted)??Same boat here, made my own theme etc. and knew exactly where everything was.
The "very occasional" system re-install would be due to user error, usually trying to remove Outlook (with a 20Gb system HDD, removing everything that I thought was "bloatware" was essential!). But to re-install the system and all my stuff took at most an hour.
WinPatrol, ESET, Mbam instantly took hold of any naughty boys, gave them a good slapping and showed 'em the door.
Then my old (and it was second hand to me) Packard Bell was finally showing its age so it was time to buy a new PC, but that was back in June 2009 and like A Guy I wasn't going to install an old system on a new PC. I waited until December 2009 to see what feedback Windows 7 was getting from "real people", not Beta testers.
And I was impressed, so I took the leap.
Am I still impressed? Yep. 98% of the time.
Windows 7 is better than xp in so many ways,but i dont know why they hate it so much...
Time to quote him and tell him why he is wrong.... (IMO of course)
I can understand wanting to keep your tried, trusted, and true hardware, but there comes a point where it is obsolete. In the technology world, much more than 5 years and it is old.One of the biggest complaints that XP users had with Windows Vista was its hardware incompatibilities. Older printers, scanners, network cards, and other peripherals simply didn't work with Vista. Here's the bad news: They won't work in Windows 7, either, because Windows 7 uses the same driver model as Windows Vista. So XP users will be out of luck.
Windows Classic (or basic) theme for the win...XP users also tend not to be fans of Vista's Windows Aero and other interface enhancements that they dismiss as so much frou-frou. Guess what --- there's even more frou-frou in Windows 7, such as a new taskbar and a nice new feature called Aero Peek. (For more details, see "Review: Windows 7 Beta 1 shows off new task bar, more UI goodies.") Those features won't make XP users happy.
Run box is still there, just a little deeper in the menu.Some XP users I know simply don't like change. They'd like the old Windows Explorer back, or the Run box back, or would have liked to have seen the same desktop icons in Vista that were in XP. Even though Vista lets them customize it so that it had some old XP features, it was still different enough that they weren't happy.
I don't know why desktop icons are an issue, they work exactly the same :sarcastic:
Anyways, in the end it is a new OS, why SHOULDN'T it be different? Would you drive a car that was made in 1950 because you think it works better than one made in 2009? The safety features alone should make you think twice...
~Lordbob
I like LordBob's car analogy, except, a car from the 50's (like my Dads '55 Chevy) still looks cool and is nice to drive once in a while. After figuring out 7, doing anything in XP just seems harder. The Run box was easier to find in XP, but I've almost completely replaced it with Windows search. Besides, saying that people that primarily use one OS, don't like the other, is like saying most people that have only used desktop computers, don't like using laptops. Yeah its true, but that doesn't mean that laptops don't have some advantages over desktops.
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