Re: [libreoffice-users] is MSFT running scared ...

The problem most people I know has with ME was drivers.

The big 2 reasons why I went from Vistas to Win7 were: 1) external drive 
issues, 2) support for newer hardware [driver] and software.  It also 
helped going from 32-bit Vista to 64-bit Win7.

I still have an XP laptop, but there are more and more hardware and 
software that wants at least Vista to run, or does not run well on XP.

The only reason to upgrade to Win8, to me, is the advanced touch 
options, as long as you have a touch display though.  My only touch 
display is on my Android tablet and that will be the case for the 
foreseeable future.


On 01/22/2013 11:19 AM, Steven Shelton wrote:
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> On 1/21/2013 4:55 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Typically Windows seem to have 1 bad version followed by 1 good one and then the next is bad. Vista
> was apparently so bad that many people said they "upgraded" from Vista
> back to Xp. Even though that was a backwards step many considered it an
> upgrade. Win7 was quite good. Before Xp was Millenium which was
> generally considered so appalling that people are more likely to have
> heard of Win98. So, people might be expecting Win8 to be another dead OS.
>
>
> As an aside--and apropos to nothing--I actually liked Windows ME. It
> fixed some networking problems I'd had with Win 98, and I never
> understood why people always dogged on it so much. It worked great for me.
>
> Vista, on the other hand, needed to be scraped from my boot from the
> moment I had a computer running it. I was more than happy to upgrade to
> Win 7 (although, to be honest, I still think XP was the best version of
> Windows ever produced and I still run it on my computers when I have the
> option). I've only had the smallest amount of time on Windows 8, but it
> seems apallingly bad and I have no plans to EVER put it on any of my
> systems.
>
> - -- 
> Steven Shelton
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