Comments on: Are you running the latest version of your OS? http://www.techandlife.com/2010/04/are-you-running-the-latest-version-of-your-os/ ...some personal observations on tech...and life Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:06:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Hal http://www.techandlife.com/2010/04/are-you-running-the-latest-version-of-your-os/comment-page-1/#comment-8300 Hal Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:31:06 +0000 http://www.techandlife.com/?p=1888#comment-8300 I love new and shiny. I happily run alpha and beta OS's just to see what makes them new. Running Lucid 10.04 and win 7 dual boot. I love new and shiny. I happily run alpha and beta OS’s just to see what makes them new. Running Lucid 10.04 and win 7 dual boot.

]]> By: Trollface http://www.techandlife.com/2010/04/are-you-running-the-latest-version-of-your-os/comment-page-1/#comment-8299 Trollface Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:27:24 +0000 http://www.techandlife.com/?p=1888#comment-8299 Well, my dad's computer came with Windows Vista, and he was having many problems, although most of them were related to the Graphics Card. (Fresh drivers ETC). We installed Windows 7 on Top of it, but were still able to hold all the information from the old installation so that worked well. I also upgraded to my mac to Snow Leopard, as my mac was of that make where i could get the upgrade disc for 8 euros. Although i had some problems in the start, i think that the small modifications and facelifts on certain things were ok. Plus, the upgrade was only 30 euros, which for an operating system isn't THAT bad.... Well, my dad’s computer came with Windows Vista, and he was having many problems, although most of them were related to the Graphics Card. (Fresh drivers ETC). We installed Windows 7 on Top of it, but were still able to hold all the information from the old installation so that worked well.

I also upgraded to my mac to Snow Leopard, as my mac was of that make where i could get the upgrade disc for 8 euros. Although i had some problems in the start, i think that the small modifications and facelifts on certain things were ok.

Plus, the upgrade was only 30 euros, which for an operating system isn’t THAT bad….

]]> By: Andy http://www.techandlife.com/2010/04/are-you-running-the-latest-version-of-your-os/comment-page-1/#comment-8291 Andy Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:34:30 +0000 http://www.techandlife.com/?p=1888#comment-8291 I have Win7 on my computers at home and XP on my computer at work and here are my thoughts: 1) Security in Win7 has been vastly improved over XP. Using XP always makes me nervous. It also fixed the annoyances of Vista which was very overbearing on security. 2) I love the "pin to taskbar" feature in Win7. I am extremely anal retentive when it comes to the order of my programs in the taskbar. With XP, if my Outlook gets closed (crashes or otherwise), I have to close IE, Excel, and anything else and re-open them in order. With Win7, my pinned programs stay in the same place always. I'm going to be tossing Lucid Lynx on my laptop soon in VirtualBox, so I'm pretty excited about that. I have Win7 on my computers at home and XP on my computer at work and here are my thoughts:

1) Security in Win7 has been vastly improved over XP. Using XP always makes me nervous. It also fixed the annoyances of Vista which was very overbearing on security.

2) I love the “pin to taskbar” feature in Win7. I am extremely anal retentive when it comes to the order of my programs in the taskbar. With XP, if my Outlook gets closed (crashes or otherwise), I have to close IE, Excel, and anything else and re-open them in order. With Win7, my pinned programs stay in the same place always.

I’m going to be tossing Lucid Lynx on my laptop soon in VirtualBox, so I’m pretty excited about that.

]]> By: Asgaro http://www.techandlife.com/2010/04/are-you-running-the-latest-version-of-your-os/comment-page-1/#comment-8287 Asgaro Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:43:19 +0000 http://www.techandlife.com/?p=1888#comment-8287 I had the exact same thoughts while I read that article! ;) These authors come up with tons of OS features articles ...and the majority still runs XP lol. xD I use Windows 7 myself. I didn't really upgrade because of certain features, but rather because of the better overall performance in comparison to Vista. I also need to say that I'm a slick-UI-whore so if the UI would now still be like on XP I would feel so sad.^^ I had the exact same thoughts while I read that article! ;)
These authors come up with tons of OS features articles …and the majority still runs XP lol. xD

I use Windows 7 myself. I didn’t really upgrade because of certain features, but rather because of the better overall performance in comparison to Vista.
I also need to say that I’m a slick-UI-whore so if the UI would now still be like on XP I would feel so sad.^^

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