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Will you keep using XP after the release of Windows 7? Question for those who haven't upgraded to Vista
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#1 User is offline   Liskiller Icon

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Post icon  Posted 07 April 2009 - 12:13 PM

Mary-Jo Foley today posted on her blog that Microsoft has confirmed officially that it would allow Windows 7 users to downgrade not just to Windows Vista, but also to Windows XP.

A Microsoft spokesperson clarified later that downgrade rights allow users to install previous versions of Windows, not just the most recent predecessor. In other words, a Software-Assurance-covered volume-license user who wanted to downgrade from Vista could, technically, go back to Windows 2000 or even Windows 95, not just XP. Who knew?

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Posted 07 April 2009 - 12:24 PM

win7 for apps, xp for game and old apps. Anyway, I still love Xp :D
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 12:25 PM

Vista is already better for gaming that XP.
Windows 7 is the final blow to the legend that is Windows XP.
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 12:29 PM

Still XP for me! :P

Win 7 still thinking.... for vista havent used it EVER....^^,
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 12:54 PM

Yes, currently I'm not very satisfied with win7

...writing this from a vista sp2 system which seems to be working faster than seven for some reason
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 01:01 PM

View PostfediaFedia, on Apr 7 2009, 12:54 PM, said:

Yes, currently I'm not very satisfied with win7

...writing this from a vista sp2 system which seems to be working faster than seven for some reason


The same here. I've been using 7 since the first leaks were out, and I kinda like it. But now, after all these months I see that the system is slower, more buggy, less productive, and I'm missing the msstyles from vista.
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 01:06 PM

I don't think i'll move back to XP, but i'll still have to take care of our family machine.

I too have been using 7 from the first few leaks, and it has come leaps and bounds.
Vista, on the other hand is really sluggish for me, and @ fediaFedia, is that the SP2 escrow build? how does it fair over SP1? (I havn't been bothered to test it out yet).

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Posted 07 April 2009 - 01:37 PM

View PostLaguna, on Apr 7 2009, 04:01 PM, said:

View PostfediaFedia, on Apr 7 2009, 12:54 PM, said:

Yes, currently I'm not very satisfied with win7

...writing this from a vista sp2 system which seems to be working faster than seven for some reason


The same here. I've been using 7 since the first leaks were out, and I kinda like it. But now, after all these months I see that the system is slower, more buggy, less productive, and I'm missing the msstyles from vista.


Yeah exactly, seven seems like "wow" only in the first weeks of usage, then it gets slower, buggier till it's just average and not quite comfortable to use...

View Postsquirrlehunter, on Apr 7 2009, 04:06 PM, said:

@ fediaFedia, is that the SP2 escrow build? how does it fair over SP1? (I havn't been bothered to test it out yet).

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I think it's a really big improvement, it runs very well on my legacy system (2GHz single core AMD, 1.5 GB of DDR1 RAM)
Though I made a clean install of a sp2 equipped vista ISO.
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 01:49 PM

Definitely XP for legacy apps and...


Windows Seven is quite sluggish in my computer. I honestly now don't see much difference as compared to Vista.

In XP, I can run 3 simultaneous instance of a software (program eats 350-650 MB) RAM. In Vista it won't cut in 2 (it opens but not workable), and in Seven (Seven 7048) it just dies and BSOD in my attempt to have 2 instances.

I have 4GB RAM (Actually 3GB since I am stuck with 32 bit versions).
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 02:21 PM

One word: NO

Why?


Its 8 years old folks. I have moved on.... I will be dual booting Vista SP2 with Windows 7.
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 03:12 PM

How about a Win7 and XP SP3 dual-boot?

Sounds perfect to me!
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 03:16 PM

im not quiet sure my nvidia 400MX series will support win 7 :cry: :cry:
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 03:17 PM

I am on Win7 for about 3 months now. And have suited it to my needs. No issues. Not even in games (except some "missing" dlls which are easy to find)

I dont use XP anymore. I dont use Vista either.

Will have to use XP on one of my old laptops but only out of compulsion becoz it doesnt run Vista quite well ( only 512 mb ram :( )
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 03:28 PM

View Postdevnet, on Apr 7 2009, 06:16 PM, said:

im not quiet sure my nvidia 400MX series will support win 7 :cry: :cry:

It should support, but i don't think you'll get aero

View Postxsever, on Apr 7 2009, 06:12 PM, said:

How about a Win7 and XP SP3 dual-boot?

Sounds perfect to me!

Even better: XP SP3 + Vista SP2 + Win7 :P
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 03:35 PM

I am not going to be downgrading any new systems i buy but i already own a volume license of XP pro, so i will still be using it from time to time.
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