Full FeedVista is the word for future versions of Windows
Sorry XP fans, Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 7 and all future versions of Windows will be little more than minor revisions of Vista, the OS everyone either loves or hates, with little middle ground in between. They claim this will help insure that every app that works on Vista will work on Windows 7. Microsoft says by doing minor revisions and tweaking the internal version number, the chance of apps breaking when run on new versions of Windows is slim to none:
..., the version number change is actually one of the biggest impacts on application compatibility. When we moved to Windows Vista from XP going from a version number of 5.1 to 6, actually breaks [sic] lots of apps that check for the major version number. So a lot of people look at the version number and try to read something into it.
I run both Vista and XP. My main system runs Vista Home Premium and my netbook runs XP Home. Both systems are fast, stable and run just fine. I’m hoping this trend will continue with Windows 7, (and really hoping that IE 8 will be a major improvement. I’m not happy with IE7 at all. Too buggy!) Are you going to upgrade to Windows 7, stick with Vista or a diehard XP fan? Or perhaps Linux or Mac is your favorite flavor? Drop us a comment and let us know!
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Vista is very resource intensive, and although it works fine on my newest laptop, I won’t be switching older computers. I bought an extra copy of WinXP Pro when it looked like XP would be discontinued. I should have bought two at the price I paid. I’ll keep the two main machines on XP for my wife and I. We can’t risk losing software functionality. But I have annother machine running PCLinuxOS and just upgraded it to match the new release. Another older machine runs linux server software trials. It stays volatile, but it won’t be a Windows anything.
For the last 2 years, linux has made great strides to be “out of the box” wonderful. I haven’t found very many distros that were disasters, but some ( and they were release candidates ) did have some bugs. Is that any different than Win-7? or Vista, or XP was? I look at Vista as being the catalyst that stimulated greater linux development in the OS category. Unfortunately, not all the software I use can be found equitably in linux, but they’re working hard at it.
Most linux distros are free, I haven’t had a virus problem of any kind yet, upgrades to software are voluntary, and done on my schedule. I haven’t had to replace my P-3 and P-4 linux boxes. I salvage old ones at minimal cost. I wonder how fast PCLOS, or Ubuntu, or Open SUSE, or Mint, or Fedora would run on a new dual core with 4 Gigs of RAM, PCIe and SATA? Have to try one of these days.
on March 16, 2009 at 09:47 PM - LINKvista is good but not best users like window xp just now and it is compatible for all applications but now vista will be intail operating system of window let leave the all issue for future .window 7 is upgrade version of vista let see how it woks
on April 21, 2009 at 04:35 AM - LINK