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From: RnR on 10 Dec 2009 21:11
From: RnR on 10 Dec 2009 21:17 On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:11:34 -0600, "RnR" <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hit the send button too fast... my bad. I just thought this was interesting showing the major complaints when installing windows 7..... http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/09/technology/windows_7_problems/index.htm
From: Ben Myers on 10 Dec 2009 23:57 RnR wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:11:34 -0600, "RnR" <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hit the send button too fast... my bad. > > I just thought this was interesting showing the major complaints when > installing windows 7..... > http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/09/technology/windows_7_problems/index.htm Well, yeah. Of course. Who ever heard of a perfect upgrade of an operating system? And they are almost all time-consuming. Which is why it makes sense to even leapfrog over a release, as with XP to Windows 7. And many of us leapfrogged real fast over Windows ME, same as Vista... Ben Myers
From: RnR on 11 Dec 2009 06:32 On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:57:29 -0500, Ben Myers <ben_myers(a)charter.net> wrote: >RnR wrote: >> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:11:34 -0600, "RnR" <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hit the send button too fast... my bad. >> >> I just thought this was interesting showing the major complaints when >> installing windows 7..... >> http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/09/technology/windows_7_problems/index.htm > >Well, yeah. Of course. Who ever heard of a perfect upgrade of an >operating system? And they are almost all time-consuming. Which is why >it makes sense to even leapfrog over a release, as with XP to Windows 7. > And many of us leapfrogged real fast over Windows ME, same as Vista... >Ben Myers I agree. I guess I was a bit surprised how many bugs when it seemed so many touted win 7 as a good release. Perhaps I have to redefine in my head, what a good MS release is <grin> ?
From: Ben Myers on 11 Dec 2009 08:58
RnR wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:57:29 -0500, Ben Myers <ben_myers(a)charter.net> > wrote: > >> RnR wrote: >>> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:11:34 -0600, "RnR" <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hit the send button too fast... my bad. >>> >>> I just thought this was interesting showing the major complaints when >>> installing windows 7..... >>> http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/09/technology/windows_7_problems/index.htm >> Well, yeah. Of course. Who ever heard of a perfect upgrade of an >> operating system? And they are almost all time-consuming. Which is why >> it makes sense to even leapfrog over a release, as with XP to Windows 7. >> And many of us leapfrogged real fast over Windows ME, same as Vista... >> Ben Myers > > I agree. I guess I was a bit surprised how many bugs when it seemed > so many touted win 7 as a good release. Perhaps I have to redefine in > my head, what a good MS release is <grin> ? Nope. It's simply that Microsoft NEVER pays enough attention to the process of upgrading Windows. And given the plethora of software applications available for Windows, I doubt that Microsoft could ever take into account all the possibilities for something to go wrong including programs don't work with new release and all the data migration issues including the ones with Outlook and Outlook Express caused by Microsoft itself by absolutely burying the mail and address books 37 folders deep from the C drive root. (There! I sort of half-defended Microsoft, rather than bashing them completely!) In the cited article, I wonder how many people actually tried to do the Windows 7 upgrade "over" an existing XP or Vista install versus clean install after data backup? (Yeah, I know it is supposedly not kosher according to Rabbi Ballmer to apply the Win 7 upgrade over XP.) To do so is plain foolish, because it complicates the upgrader's own and Microsoft's task. Far better still a clean install, which can be accomplished anyway with the Windows 7 Upgrade DVD. As far as I am concerned, the last time an upgrade install of Windows made any sense at all and had any chance of working smoothly was Windows 95 to Windows 98. Since then, it has been clean installs on a fresh hard drive for me, with the old hard drive as a slave (or more often a SCSI ID greater than zero, for you SCSI fanatics out there). Oh, how I love that Microsoft sound when Windows boots up! Makes me salivate like one of Pavlov's dogs. .... Ben Myers |