My laptop came with vista - that lasted almost 24 hours before being torn off and XP pro going on.....
I've got a dual boot for 7 now on the laptop but haven't even used it for about two months so that gives you an idea of my opinion on it!
Simple things like them killing off outlook express (I hate outlook and windows mail) and the awkwardness off finding things that I know how to do in XP (I'm pretty good at tweaking it to my needs so had to start all over again in 7).
Plus the new virtual pc (or xp mode to be precise) doesn't work on my laptop (old version did though) since the processor doesn't have virtualisation (it's "only" a dual core intel centrino 1.73gig with 2 gig ram FFS!!!, hardly outdated...
) and the software I use for running the nightclub lighting when I do a gig also is very unstable on 7, quite often crashing on either load or exit and no amount of compatability settings will cure it. (since I'm not a registered user I can't get any support on that front
)
I'll stick with XP for now, I've even been dragging my heels on office 2007 and only gone over this week since my work forced the "upgrade" recently so I'm getting used to it (with a classic menu addon since I HATE the stupid fecking ribbon they've forced onto us with no option for the classic interface - slowed me down no end considering the huge number of macros I've written at work with custom menu buttons that are all gone now. Grrrrrrrr.)
Microshaft want shooting
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