http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Windows-8-Milestone-3-Key-OEMs-Pre-Release-Program-Mi...ect,12474.html
glad to see that the forced upgrade, planned obsolescence business model is alive and well at microshaft, i was starting to worry that bill and friends weren't going to keep making insane amounts of money like they have been accustomed to.
for me, i stuck with xp 64 for years and didn't upgrade until i absolutely needed dx10 (and until i switched to the really big hard drives), i will stick with vista 64 until i absolutely must have avx support (win 7 sp1 is the first ms OS to support 264 bit simd) or hard drives get so big that vista no longer natively supports them.
but i see myself sticking with vista for years, well past win 8, win 9 and depending how "cloudy" m$ Oses become, i may eventually switch to a linux distro.
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Almost here? The article says it will start beta testing in September. That means it's at least a year away from release.
I skipped Vista. I have one system running Win7. The rest still run XP Pro. -
Just out of curiosity, the Windows 8 .ISO will still fit on a DVD-ROM,
or will it require a 50GB BD
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I've been contemplating going from 32-bit XP to 64-bit W7, but I'm almost thinking I'll hold off until W8 gets here, even though the upgrade path from W7 to W8 should (theoretically) be a simple one. I'm still mulling...
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i switched to xp 64 from the day the first beta was released (i had bought an athlon 64's as soon as it was available) and never went back to a 32 bit system. the first athlon 64's had 8 additional specialized 64 bit registers and 8 general duty 64 bit registers and the ability to address more ram, when coupled with xp 64, even in beta form, i saw a noticeable performance increase in most applications as well as superior multi-tasking overall.
win 7 sp1 will be a must if/when software that takes advantage of avx is available (x264 makes limited use of the 3 operand capabilities of avx, allows for a small performance increase).
also, if you do any gaming and wish to play anything that uses the dx10/11 api, you will have to upgrade, likewise if you ever wish to use software that takes advantage of direct compute, you will have to upgrade.
it sounds like for you none of these is needed so i say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". -
i suppose "almost here" could be seen as a relative term, i'm used to the long life enjoyed by xp and quite frankly i'm appalled by the rapid follow up of vista with win 7 and now a win 8 public beta release looming within 6 months.
it's obvious to me that aside from wishing to milk every dollar they can from their customers that microsoft is hell bent on enforcing a cloud computing usage model for end users, a model i abhor as it seems like it's only benefit is for big content as a way of micro managing all digital content.
part of me always knew that eventually i would migrate to an open source OS, as consoles become more and more powerful and can handle all my gaming needs and as tablets become more and more powerful (i was playing around with a buddy's ipad and was completely impressed), a windows based desktop becomes less and less important to me. -
XP 64 was poorly supported with apps or drivers. I had a dual boot to XP 64 and nothing worked there vs 32 bit.
I'm still running serious machines on Vista/Win7 32bit. Need to swap apps and peripherals around that lack 64bit drivers.
Never saw an article that said 64 bit is good for anything but additional RAM over 3.x GB.Recommends: Kiva.org - Loans that change lives.
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I have vista 32bit premium on my fastest computer which is an older generation dual core amd. I have xp on my single core desktop that is mostly relegated to surfing now.
I don't have a need to go to 7 yet. The main reason I did vista was it was a preinstalled oem so I kept it. No really issues and only one reinstall that was due to user error. I was messing with registry stuff when I shouldn't have and didnt' backup. I've sworn off doing that for the forseable future for sure
I don't think I'll be doing 8 either unless that is when I eventually buy another computer. That will probably be a "cheap" six core or whatever the lower end of the latest models is when I do upgrade. Maybe another year or so? The dual core is still doing just fine but hd in h264 is a little slow in processing and authoring obviously.Donatello - The Shredder? Michelangelo - Maybe all that hardware is for making coleslaw? -
Didn't people bitch and moan and ridicule Microsoft for the long wait between XP and Vista?
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Wow thats surprising. I guess you don't use it to game at all. I had win2k for awhile and loved it but it wasn't game friendly. I upgraded to xp when I bought a new computer. I don't have that computer with 2k on it any more.
But that was my first introduction to the nt platform after being on 95 then 98. Loved the stability of it. But it wasn't media or game friendly and had to move on. Xp was so much nicer than 98 - always seemed to need reinstalling once or twice a year to be smooth.Donatello - The Shredder? Michelangelo - Maybe all that hardware is for making coleslaw? -
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actually i didn't, i bitched and moaned that xp was released so soon after 2k, i'm not a big believer in releasing an "updated" version of a piece of software simply for the sake of releasing something.
the same goes for OS X, it pisses me off to no end when apple releases a slightly updated OS X variant and charges full price for what is essentially a service pack.
the linux and bsd people do similar crap but at least in that case the software is usually (legally) free and thanks to the extreme modular nature of the OSes you can at least upgrade just the parts you want if you don't feel like going the complete new build route. -
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And don't forget xp was the replacement for ME that nobody liked.Donatello - The Shredder? Michelangelo - Maybe all that hardware is for making coleslaw? -
the biggest problem with linux is that the quality of distros varies wildly from vendor to vendor and in some case bwteen version numbers of the same distro.
perhaps the finest linux distro i ever tested (and changes are if you can name a distro, no matter how obscure, i tried it at one point or another) was one done by an ex-microsoft employee, namely lindows, which eventually became linspire and eventually ceased to exist.
another one that showed what linux could be was peanut linux, i think it was version 9.3, the thing came with a window manager that allowed for the desktop to be "active" (for lack of a better term), the default "wallpaper" was of lake scene and the water within the lake rippled (so that it looked realistic) and as a bonus they had an audio confirmation effect enabled, where if you tried to say start the control panel a sultry feminine voice would say "control panel". the damn thing was so cool, unfortunately this was in the days before linux used alsa and the oss framework was buggy and unstable as hell and sound would eventually fail and it was a nightmare to get working again without recompiling the kernel.
if linux could get a file system that didn't use that idiotic "slash" hierarchy where you have /, /root, /etc, /var and you had a company that was firmly committed to bringing a viable alternative to windows, i think linux could definitely give microsoft a run for it's money. -
When my friend built his I7 computer, he installed XP 64 to support all the memory that he bought and it was a nightmare. He bought Windows 7 as soon as it came out to replace it.
AlanHKRe: windows 8 is almost here...
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I can't tell any difference between the platforms.... I got W7 Ultra so I installed two HDs with 32 and 64 bit respectively. I really can't tell any difference between the two, of course I'm only running 4gig 1066 RAM on an overclocked quad, so I guess W64 is no advantage. Everything runs fine on both platforms, so I finalized with 64bit. As far as W8 goes, what is there to get excited about? No new "must-have" technology has been developed yet so what really can M/Soft pack in it? I have a bad feeling we are in for a Vista DejaVu experience. I have no plans for buying it.
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That's just your opinion alright.
In fact, I have Vista Ultimate 64-bits w/ SP2 on my notebook, and I feel it is less crappy than Windows 7. At least, Vista still supports the so-called Classic Start Menu . Unfortunately its file searching cannot be made as simple and "manual" as in Windows 95 /98 / 2000 / XP
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vista is not crap, if you throw enough ram at vista it actually makes very good use of it and despite initially hating it i have come to believe it is a better OS than xp.
i remember when xp came out and people were saying the same thing about xp vs 2k, that xp was a resource hog, that it was slower than 2k, etc; yeah, if you tried to run xp with 128 mb of ram and a P3 with a dx6/7 class card with all the eye candy turned on it was painful, once you went to at least 512 mb ram + a dx9 graphics card with at least 256 mb frame buffer and a HT or dual core cpu, there was no comparison.
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2k pro had a hard coded limit of 2 cpu's and couldn't tell the difference between a physical and a logical core, thus a dual core looked like 2 single cpu's to 2k pro, 2k server allowed the limit to be 4 cores and advanced server upped that to 8.
as for installing 2k on as many computers as you wanted, you were never legally allowed to do so, though there was nothing technical stopping you.
the reality is that wpa in xp was easily bypassed and people still did numerous multiple installs with the same license, i remember reading an article that claimed that something like 10 million different computers running xp had accessed windows update yet only 1 million licenses had been sold (i don't remember the exact numbers but the disparity between licenses sold and updates requested was something ridiculous like that). -
My brother's XP Home computer died and he installed it in a spare computer while fixing the other one. When he put it back in the fixed one, he had to call MS to get it activated. They said that it had been installed on another machine on the network and when he explained what had happened, they refused to activate it and he was forced to buy another copy so he bought XP Pro.
XP Pro is the last OS I will buy from Microsoft. I don't like Windows 7 at all and everything they'll produce in the future will be further and further from their best OS. That seems to be the trend with most software. Everyone seems to be taking the old Compuserve lead of putting a new dress on their software, removing all the usefull options they had before and telling everyone to like it. -
I really like W7. I have the 64 bit on this laptop and 32 bit W7 on the other PCs. I only have one PC still running XP. If I have any complaints about W7 they are that networking got a bit harder. A separate issue, but I don't much like Internet Explorer 8, but have managed to tweak it so it's not too irritating.
The other was how they screwed up MS Paint. Eliminating the undo button for one and making it a lot harder to use with the confusing menu selection. But I found out it's an .exe and I just replaced the W7 version with one from Vista or XP, I don't recall.
I also run DeskScapes on my laptop and the PC in my Computer Details. I like the motion background. I don't use the Sidebar or most that other W7/Vista stuff.
I find W7 is much more stable than XP or Vista, IMO. I wouldn't go back to either one.
But I see no reason to go to W8 at present either. Though I'll wait and see if a trial version is released and see how it looks and performs. -
The name says it all W -eight (WAIT). I'm still on XP, waiting to go to Win7, want to install it on three PC's tho, not willing to pay full MS bux.
MCP rules them all, with VMS a close second (OS400 quite good too) other thrdCorned beef is now made to a higher standard than at any time in history.
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The main reason I switched from Vista to 7 was the much improved Media Center. If W8's Media Center offers improvements over W7's (for example, Bluray support or DVD menu support for extenders) then I might switch, but we'll have to wait and see.
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On my home network, I've got two computers running XP, one running Win7, one dual boot XP/Win7 machine, all 32-bit, and one 64-bit Vista rig. I like the Vista machine best (when your hardware is up to snuff), and have this feeling that Win7 is the poor man's Vista.
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Windows 7 is to Windows Vista as Windows XP was to Windows Me, i.e. an improved OS that washed away the bad taste of the previous, flawed effort.
Don't sweat the petty things, just pet the sweaty things.
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