On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Doug Franklin<jehosep...@mindspring.com> wrote: > Anthony Farr wrote: >> >> 2009/6/30 Christine Aguila <cagu...@earthlink.net>: >>> >>> I have to come up with a solution fast that doesn't involve buying a new >>> Vista computer. >> >> I read just a day or two ago that M$ will soon be offering free Win7 >> upgrades to buyers of Vista loaded computers, to overcome just the >> kind of resistance that you're feeling. > > One some new machines with Vista, it's possible and legal to downgrade them > to XP if you're that anti-Vista (I am). However, I've been playing with the > "preview version" (RC1) of Windows 7 and it's much more usable than Vista on > the same hardware, at least on the hardware I've been using. Now if they'd > just stop hiding all the settings in different places for each new release > of Windows. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ)
I tried Windows 7 RC1. I'll stick with Vista. Performance is better under an optimized copy of Vista and the UI is less broken. The only real problem with Vista today is that MS insists on leaving certain performance-robbing services on by default. Namely their Search indexing and ReadyBoost services. ReadyBoost in particular is suposedly a performance enancement, but it eats more CPU than it gains you in launch speed boosts. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
