On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Steven O'Neal<se_on...@hotmail.com> wrote: > With the soon to be release of the full versions of Win 7 the question > becomes is it worth the trouble to switch off of XP ?
There is the tendency to think in terms of "newer is better". The real questions are: 1. Is what I am doing working reliably? 2. Will I gain functionality if I upgrade? I suspect that your answers to 1 and 2 above are yes and no respectively. If that is so then upgrading from XP is a waste of time and money. The operating system is not an application that provides usable new features when there is a new version. It is there simply to provide the environment wherein your other programs, e.g. PowerSDR, can run. Also consider that many of the bugs and security problems in XP have been dealt with. Windows 7 is going to have a whole new set of bugs that will crop up to compromise the system. I have one machine running day in and day out using Windows 2000. This machine runs the Echolink server for our school repeater. There is nothing that XP, Vista, or 7 can provide that will allow the machine to perform this function any better so I see no advantage to upgrade it and the possible disadvantage that I will break it and have to spend time trying to get back to where I am right now. So, until PowerSDR and the other ham radio programs that you are running on your shack computer either require Windows 7 or take advantage of some new feature, stick with what you have. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
