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LeeThe free Windows 7 upgrade program will start on June 26 according to a corporate memo from Best Buy. The memo states that there will be a “Technology Guarantee” program starting on June 26 which means that people who buy computers running Vista Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate will get Windows 7 on October 22.
Pre-sales of Microsoft’s next operating system will also be available on June 26 by Best Buy.
The memo also states that, “This new operating system isn’t just a ‘Vista that works’ program.”
Source: Information Week
I purchased a HP Media Center PC with Vista preinstalled.. and I manually removed it and installed Windows XP which I bought some time ago.. This Win7 crap wouldn’t seduce me into another GUI-sweet-baby those probably doesn’t work again as it’s still based on Vista technology..
I mean no offense, but have you used Windows 7?
It’s quite nice. It’s not just built on Vista technology. The functions of it are very improved and overall I find it to be very streamlined. I feel that it’s simple quick and it works.
Windows 7 is leaps and bounds better than Vista and I think it may actually be a decent upgrade from XP in a few months. As operating systems go its still years behind OS X but they are improving.
Basically Windows 7 is Vista that works. Look at it as Vista SP3. Or what Vista should have been in Jan 2007.
There is already a free upgrade available to Windows… it’s called Linux
I’m glad that M$ is fixing their boo boo mistake called “Vista” (aka WinME v.2) with Windows 7, but like all versions of Windows, it will become slower and even more bloated as the constant need for updates arise. For those who live in the Windows world, yes, Win7 is better than Vista for many reasons, and I’d recommend it if someone wants to stay using Windows, but it’s not the only option out there.
Oh boy, here we go with the Linux is better than Windows crap again. Listen, I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to get rid of Windows and run Linux on my 70 year old dad’s computer. But it’s not an intuitive OS. Downloading and installing applications isn’t easy. Getting peripherals to just work, isn’t easy. Windows is easy to teach, and learn especially for older folks.
Period.
Jim, I think you’d be surprised how easy it is to install applications on say Ubuntu. You can do it via a command at the shell (for the techie minded) or via a control panel applet GUI (for the non-techie minded). There’s good support out there for Lexmark and HP printers, (as well as some others, but those 2 I know the best). I just setup a Ubuntu box for a very, very NON-technical friend of mine on an old Compaq Deskpro EN, showed them how to use Open Office, Evolution, Firefox, Gimp, all without any problems.
Linux isn’t necessarily “better” than Windows any more than an airplane is “better” than a car. Windows and Linux are both operating systems, just as airplanes and cars are both vehicles. In both cases, each is designed with a specific mindset, philosophy, a way of operating,…and I prefer Linux’s ways, but that’s me. It’s not to say that it’s the way for everyone.