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Old 8th December 2012, 11:32 AM   #86
Charlie Wilkes
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Originally Posted by Dancing David View Post
I was unhappy with Win7 at first mainly because I had learned to navigate around XP fairly well and knew many of the names of commands and system files for it.

The only real pain about Win7 is that you have to click one more level of the UI for almost all the setting, which is really not that bad.

We deployed Win7 at both my schools last year and one advantage is that there is no longer an hour of updates to run (on XP SP3) on reimages. The other advantage is that the kernel and system seem to be more robust in terms of malware. One downside is that the malware that effects Win7 seems to be much harder to deal with. I really like the way that Win7 and the WDS system works to deploy images, file sharing is okay as are privileges.

So I am one who went from sceptical to being content.

I am think Windows 8 will be like Vista or Windows 2000, an intermediate step in marketing and OS contruction.
I have a desktop with Windows 7. I find the UI workable, neither better nor worse than XP or for that matter Windows 95. But XP can handle large hard drives and USB, whereas 95 could not. 7 can handle >4 gb of RAM whereas XP cannot.

Nobody pro or con on Windows 8 is discussing significant new capabilities. It's all about the UI. Those who defend the UI do so by pointing out that it can do the same things as earlier versions of Windows, once you learn how.

MS has apparently decided that serving their core market of desktop users is less important than serving a device market in which they have yet to gain a significant share.
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