The evolution of Windows from its beginnings to date

[iownage]

Re: The evolution of Windows from its beginnings to date

but win 8 isnt good as win 7

[duhoki]

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It is, but not right now mate. Just give it some time to integrate more in to private and business community, then it will force it way up to be better then win7:D

[parsonline]

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ofcourse it also depend to hardware compatible. as i heard some part of hardware have problem for match with win8 special in labtob series.

[mahrkpat]

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[QUOTE=duhoki;270307]It is, but not right now mate. Just give it some time to integrate more in to private and business community, then it will force it way up to be better then win7:D[/QUOTE]

I think apart from computer pc gamers win 8 will fail to make in roads into the
private sector because these days there are so many ways of accessing the
internet and other productive things that once required windows to do can also
be done by other OS'es. Recently MS have dropped the price of oem win 8 so
that manufacturers choose win 8 instead of another OS.

[duhoki]

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I agre with you on that point of view. This is same the same for every "personal computer" os and not only windows though.

[besit]

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[QUOTE=mahrkpat;270379]I think apart from computer pc gamers win 8 will fail to make in roads into the
private sector because these days there are so many ways of accessing the
internet and other productive things that once required windows to do can also
be done by other OS'es. Recently MS have dropped the price of oem win 8 so
that manufacturers choose win 8 instead of another OS.[/QUOTE]

There's no choice between windows and other OSes when buying a new PC. There's choice to buy a PC with windows or empty PC to install Linux or pirate version of windows.

No when someone asks me to help to set up the PC, I format HDD and set up windows xp, corporate edition from MSDN. In cases when hardware has not xp drivers or it has more then 4gb of mem I put a win7 64 bit got in torrent. Soon PCs acceptable for xp will end. What's left?

What good is a windows?
1. Everyone uses MS office and MS office is the best way to open MS offices files. To run MS office you will need windows or mac OS. But Mac OS means Mac hardware. So windows is a only way to open MS office files on a PC (i386)
2. There are so many applications for windows, free or commercial.
3. Big number of hardware drivers for different devices.

I always thought "It would be very nice to have an open source windows OS". Now I can say that Wine is a better environment to run 32 bit windows programs on a 64 bit system. I already heard "Please help I've bought a new Laptop PC with win8 and my AutoCAD does not work there, but there are no drivers for win7 for this notebook". But I'm absolutely sure I will download new distribution of ubuntu, it will fit that laptop as native, and I will run AutoCAD in Wine. LibreOffice opens MSoffice douments, even new docx and xlsx.
So now I am exploring Linux, even though I'm working with windows sinse 1994.

[benchsirius]

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I really don't see the problems being encountered with Windows 8 , it really is Windows 7 with a different front end which you can turn off.

You can even get the start button back if you want it.

The reason why Windows 8 may fail to make progress in the business sector is that it is identical to Windows 7. The reason why it will , is the price point.

Startmenu8 and Pokki will bring you back most/all of the Windows 7 start feature if you want them or if you are very retrospective go for classicshell, all free.

[besit]

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[QUOTE=benchsirius;270506]I really don't see the problems being encountered with Windows 8 , it really is Windows 7 with a different front end which you can turn off.
[/QUOTE]
I'd say that win 7 was a frontend of win xp. All incompatibilities of xp and 7 are artifical to force users to move to 7. In case of win8 vs win7 incompatibility issues seem to be real for win7 is not a competitor of win8, they are both ugly enough.

[QUOTE=benchsirius;270506]
You can even get the start button back if you want it.

Startmenu8 and Pokki will bring you back most/all of the Windows 7 start feature if you want them or if you are very retrospective go for classicshell, all free.[/QUOTE]
Few years ago I tried to customize win7. It was absolutely misunderstood why they get rid of "directory up" button and quick launch panel. I tried to install 3rd party apps making 7 look like xp. But all those apps were unstable and at last I decided that best way to keep win xp look is to keep win xp. As for me - even win xp design is too wierd, I always turn on classic scheme and classic start menu.

[benchsirius]

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I've made minor modifications to Windows 7, mainly the desktop and various right/left click functions I don't like.

To be honest I run a dual boot system, xp for office, email , win 7 for games simply because xp won't recognise above 4gb and won't ( without hacks ) run direct x 10 or above

[parsonline]

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probably new hardware support new windows8 but maybe old software and hardware have problem with win8 but hoewever i think finally best windows for speed and applacation will be win8

[benchsirius]

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Windows 8 does have lower hardware specs in some cases than Windows 7 , but many people run Win 7 on low spec machines. Windows XP is still best for lower spec machines as it is reliable and 95% of modern applications still work on it. Just don't use Vista as it was just a test rig for Windows 7 and beyond.

[joseram2000]

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Whoever says that xp the best, tell me one piece of hardware is auqnue benefits of minimal support for windows xp?, Ninguno.Seamos serious, who works today with fewer benefits w95 asking, but where we get drivers?, evolution makes sense for new technologies and economically for people to renew their pc's

[parsonline]

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also i still believe xp is best windows for use but in labtob i think 7 is good
i think in labtob that they support win 8 i think they work better than others for speed

[benchsirius]

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Windows 95 - me support is gradually dieing , I used dual boot me/xp for a while mainly due to system restore on both systems but 95 is just too limited, almost nothing new works on it now. It is inevitable that people now use the XP>>>Win7 root. Win8 well reminds me a bit of xp , it has testing features of Win9 as ME had for XP but is still really the previous version..

[benchsirius]

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I agree ahmed, in any case there is no point dual booting windows 7 and 8 they are too similar. My first PC had Win 3.1 on it, and it would only accept an upgrade to win 95, impossible to load Win95 from fresh. I had no internet and even less in the way of drivers , how time changes.