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VIRTUALISATION Windows 7 hype that XP users will shun
VIRTUALISATION Windows 7 hype that XP users will shun | Windows 7 hype that XP users will shun |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Wednesday, 11 February 2009 | |
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Let's weigh up for a moment the reasons anyone would choose one operating system over another. One of the first questions they would ask is can the OS run all the applications they want. Then they might ask can it run across a wide range of hardware configurations. Is it stable? Is it fast? Is the GUI familiar? In the case of XP, the answer a resounding yes in all cases. What about Vista and Windows 7? Well we know why resource hungry Vista, which can't run on netbooks, has been such flop. Windows 7, still in beta, looks promising but it has a long way way to go before it approaches XP in performance and further still as far as stability is concerned. Yet we're told that we simply must replace XP because it's 8 years old. It was designed for the hardware of previous generations and can't take advantage of capabilities of the latest configurations, the experts say. CONTINUED Page 2 |
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