Has anyone been able to confirm this? I'd love to wipe XP and go all in.

Here's some easy instructions.

http://lifehacker.com/5126781/how-to...th-xp-or-vista

Although I hesitate to tell someone to use an on-the-fly re-partitioning app. Too many factors that could go wrong, resulting in loss of data. In the least, you should do a complete backup before trying it.

To safely do it? I'd recommend using something like Ghost to take a snap shot of your current partition. Save that image file on an external drive. Partition the drive with a startup disk. Dump the ghost image onto the primary partition. Run the Win7 disk, and install it on the secondary partition.

Yup. It's coming out very shortly....

http://keznews.com/5752_Windows_7_RC...out_to_release

Heh, some of us continue to use Windows XP. :D PBJ

I've heard Windows 7 is truly a good OS. That figures seeing as they generally release the better one on the odd cycle.

That said, Snow Leopard is supposed to bring some goodness to OSX so, at least we have some innovating and competition going on between them.

Been using Windows 7 Beta at my house for a few months. Much faster than Vista and is supposed to be more friendly to XP compatable software than Vista.

Well... it shares a lot of Vista's kernel. Software designed for Vista will definitely run better on it than software designed for XP. It's not exactly what I would consider more friendly to XP compatible software. It has an XP compatibility mode, for running older programs. It's a virtual XP emulator though, that must be added as a download. And it actually requires a licensed copy of XP to install as well. It lets you run XP software, but it's definitely geared toward compatibility and not performance. It will likely be pretty processor intensive...

http://community.winsupersite.com/bl...windows-7.aspx

It doesn't seem that way to me, but I've not loaded any of the programs I use in XP, but I'm not going to pony up $4,000 just to see if it works. I'll let the IT guys at work figure out if they want to move from XP to 7.

The Windows XP mode is a VirtualPC environment. Any time you run a virtual environment app it's going to be pretty resource intensive. It takes a lot to emulate an OS within another OS, and make it run smoothly.

Cool. Thanks Fish.

I looked through Microsoft's website at the improvements and wasn't impressed. I grew up on the old stuff, so I think very heirarchically. When they try to "make things more convenient" it ****s up my chi.

That's one thing that pissed me off about Office 2007. I'd memorized a bunch of keystrokes to get through the menus, and now the menus are gone and there aren't any keystroke shortcuts that I know of. :cuss:

Anyway, most of the convenience stuff doesn't appeal to me much.

I am optomistic about it being sped up.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290938

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3236&page=1

Rep. Still pissed though. There's a lot of them that I just need to get to through a menu. I hate using my mouse.

Seems to me they skewed the test by picking a overpriced and crappy dell on just hardware..

Most of my keyboard shortcuts in Excel 2007 remained the same (and I use them religiously).

I'm tempted to throw W7 on my desktop at home that runs XP, but I've never set up partitions or run two OS's before. I do backup my data onto an external hard drive, so I suppose I'm covered if something bad happened.

Unbeknownst to me vista has it's own built in repartitioning software. Took 3 min, downloading 7 now.