The evolution of Windows from its beginnings to date

[microchick]

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Windows XP was fantastic for its time, but clearly, times have changed. Many of the companies who are still standardized for now on Windows XP really do have plans to move to Windows 7. I think Windows 7 is an extremely worthy upgrade.

[gcms]

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win xp was really fintastic after win98 but win7 is amazing 33 percent than xp and most secureable than xp but microsoft has mentioned that win8 much more better than win xp as well as from windows7

[microchick]

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By rejecting Vista, consumers and businesses told Microsoft they didn't want their operating system to wow them. They just wanted it to recede into the background, allowing them to get work done with a minimum of surprises.

(apologies to pan1100)

[gcms]

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but it is impossibles for the business and large compamies to change their setup at once from xp to win8 as it needs a large finance and extra staff training and most the business are still using windows xp they they will get through the win 8 at once and microsoft will not support the win xp after 2014

[sweepym]

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microsoft will continue to support xp as long as it has a large user base, most companies wont move to windows 8 because it offers no advantages over xp or win 7 at the moment

[microchick]

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[QUOTE=sweepym;254559]microsoft will continue to support xp as long as it has a large user base, most companies wont move to windows 8 because it offers no advantages over xp or win 7 at the moment[/QUOTE]

If you read some early posts in this thread it has been discussed that Windows XP expires in 2014. It will be no longer supported by Microsoft. This is an official report from MS. The businesses have already started upgrading to Win 7.

[gianni253]

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I am thinking about upgrading from xp to windows7 but what about performances ?
In the same machine, can i expect an improvement or not ?

[microchick]

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I think upgrading from XP to Win 7 is a timely move but when you say performances, what do you really mean? There is no IE 9 for XP as IE9 is better than IE8. When XP stops getting updates from Microsoft in 2014, It will be more vulnerable to cyber attacks. If you are using XP for some daily life work using MS office then it should be ok but if you go online often, do banking and all sorts of stuff then better to be more secure and updated.

[sweepym]

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[QUOTE=gianni253;254565]I am thinking about upgrading from xp to windows7 but what about performances ?
In the same machine, can i expect an improvement or not ?[/QUOTE]

Depends on your machines spec, if its fairly new (within the last 2 years) then you shouldn't have any issues, it will never be as fast as XP but it also depends on what you use your pc for, gaming, wordprocessing etc? Windows vista onwards has a thing called windows experience which is a score based on your hardware and gives you an indication of how well it will run, you could check how your hardware will fare by going here:

windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/products/features/windows-experience-index

a higher number = better 'experience'

[QUOTE=microchick;254564]If you read some early posts in this thread it has been discussed that Windows XP expires in 2014. It will be no longer supported by Microsoft. This is an official report from MS. The businesses have already started upgrading to Win 7.[/QUOTE]

They said that before, they said xp would expire earlier when vista came out but because vista was crap they extended the life of XP. Businesses will only upgrade if they see a real benefit or start to phase it in when the natural life of a machine comes to an end, I dont think medium to small businesses will spend money in this climate to upgrade to win7 for no real benefits.

[gcms]

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sweepym may they extend the expiary date of the windows xp but microchick is right u can confirm the expiary and to stop supported winwods xp in 2014 u can also confirm the date of expiary from the below link _hxxp://www.s-consult.com/2012/11/26/microsoft-windows-xp-support-expiration-date-of-april-8-2014-is-less-than-500-days-away/

[microchick]

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[QUOTE=sweepym;254579]
They said that before, they said xp would expire earlier when vista came out but because vista was crap they extended the life of XP. Businesses will only upgrade if they see a real benefit or start to phase it in when the natural life of a machine comes to an end, I dont think medium to small businesses will spend money in this climate to upgrade to win7 for no real benefits.[/QUOTE]

if we'd run the benchmarks on a less powerful PC, perhaps one with only 1GB of RAM, then it's possible that Windows XP would have fared better than it did here. But for even a fairly basic modern PC, Windows 7 delivers the best performance around. According to a survey the performance will be like this on similar specification eg 1GB PC
Scores
XP: 3.5 / 5
Vista: 3 / 5
Windows 7: 4.5 / 5

[Jerry2020]

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[QUOTE=microchick;254375]In Windows XP and Windows Vista, you can disable the balloon notifications in the system tray, but what if you’d like to continue to get notifications from some applications but not from others? Windows 7 allows you to customize the behavior by simply clicking the little arrow next to the tray and selecting customize.[/QUOTE]

Balloon notifications can be disabled from Group policy

[joseram2000]

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nobody talks about Windows 8, and experiences with, I have multiple computers and some going great, and instead doing much better in other windows 7

[duhoki]

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As windows 8 is new, there is not many people who have used the windows 8 os platform, and therfore dont have experience with it to talk about it here. But you are true, that windows 8 is a moderinized os as it is more integrated inn to the social community.

[besit]

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[QUOTE=microchick;254596]if we'd run the benchmarks on a less powerful PC, perhaps one with only 1GB of RAM, then it's possible that Windows XP would have fared better than it did here. But for even a fairly basic modern PC, Windows 7 delivers the best performance around. According to a survey the performance will be like this on similar specification eg 1GB PC
Scores
XP: 3.5 / 5
Vista: 3 / 5
Windows 7: 4.5 / 5[/QUOTE]

It's only with win 7 test utility
The real performance of 7 is worse than xp
Simple - 32 bit windows works much faster than 64 bit windows - 32 bit windows can handle up to 3 GB of Mem - win seven eats at least 1 gb just for it's lousy interface - so xp may work with more memory and it works faster
Maybe if you play 3d games and need DX11 you need to install win7. Or you are working with apps that needs a lot of mem. In this case win 7 64 bit wins, for xp 64 bit is not as good as win xp 32 bit. Nothing more good in it.
And now what we have - win 7 already died, replaced with win 8, but XP lives for those who understand