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To: kumar who wrote (521736)11/10/2012 3:32:04 PM
From: goldworldnet  Respond to of 793772
 
It all depends on what you are doing, but it doesn't take a lot of horsepower to surf the internet. I built a Win7 box for my daughter, but my main computer is still Vista and I also have a XP computer and still use it most days.

Most corporations don't go to a new operating system until at least one or more service packs have been published. I also know what IT departments are like and they will disable a lot of the crap that has been put into Win8 Metro.

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To: kumar who wrote (521736)11/10/2012 4:15:36 PM
From: i-node  Respond to of 793772
 
>> am very happy with my 6 year old laptop running Windows XP.

We are still very slowly transitioning people to W7, and they still hate the change.

Home users may like it; but business users, I think, don't appreciate change for no good reason.

We've got one W8 system which I haven't even laid eyes on yet. My son is doing the testing on it and he likes it, but the change doesn't bother him like it does most ordinary users. I


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