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Adraco · 08-02-2015, 01:51 AM

If you are afraid of learning much new, then skip Windows 8 or 8.1, it's an entirely different thought behind those. The start menu is gone, for the most part. There are ways and fixes to bring it back, but do you really want or need all of that?

Windows 7, is the world's most commonly used OS, still. I read some numbers of over 60% of all computers run Win7. Very stable, very reliable and with the "old" windows functions and the looks you're used to from XP.
What troubles me is that there has ever only been one single service pack for Win7 and hundreds of small updates. A fresh install of Win7 today, requires, besides the SP1, over 200 updates. Reasonably, there would have been both a SP2 and a SP3 along the way, but why those have never emerged from MS is a mystery. They keep sending out small fixes but refuse to do big ones, for just Win7. Windows 8 have for example three Service Packs already and is a much younger version. A part of me feels that Win7 is not getting the treatment it deserves.

If you are going to learn something new and go through all the hassles anyways, why not just bite the sour apple and go with Win10? Not tested at all but it is the new flagship and will be supported for long time to come. Since you need to do clean install from the ground anyways, why not just go with the newest version, take the pain now and then make it last almost as long as you have been able to do with your XP machine?

I personally still use one of my XP machines, it still runs great. An IBM laptop, X31, from 2003, before they sold out to Lenovo. Excellent quality and the machine still works flawlessly. But I will be doing the upgrade there myself too in the next year. And then, for myself, I'm choosing Win10.

08-02-2015, 01:51 AM
Adraco Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2009 Location: Onboard an airplane around the globe Posts: 3,734	If you are afraid of learning much new, then skip Windows 8 or 8.1, it's an entirely different thought behind those. The start menu is gone, for the most part. There are ways and fixes to bring it back, but do you really want or need all of that? Windows 7, is the world's most commonly used OS, still. I read some numbers of over 60% of all computers run Win7. Very stable, very reliable and with the "old" windows functions and the looks you're used to from XP. What troubles me is that there has ever only been one single service pack for Win7 and hundreds of small updates. A fresh install of Win7 today, requires, besides the SP1, over 200 updates. Reasonably, there would have been both a SP2 and a SP3 along the way, but why those have never emerged from MS is a mystery. They keep sending out small fixes but refuse to do big ones, for just Win7. Windows 8 have for example three Service Packs already and is a much younger version. A part of me feels that Win7 is not getting the treatment it deserves. If you are going to learn something new and go through all the hassles anyways, why not just bite the sour apple and go with Win10? Not tested at all but it is the new flagship and will be supported for long time to come. Since you need to do clean install from the ground anyways, why not just go with the newest version, take the pain now and then make it last almost as long as you have been able to do with your XP machine? I personally still use one of my XP machines, it still runs great. An IBM laptop, X31, from 2003, before they sold out to Lenovo. Excellent quality and the machine still works flawlessly. But I will be doing the upgrade there myself too in the next year. And then, for myself, I'm choosing Win10. __________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The truth is not affected by the beliefs, or doubts, of the majority.