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Windows 7 to be released October 22nd
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Has anyone been able to confirm this? I'd love to wipe XP and go all in.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Anyway, most of the convenience stuff doesn't appeal to me much. I am optomistic about it being sped up. |
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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. |
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