

Vista took six months to reach 4% of the market






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Early adopter and not regretting it this time...
By Golgatha on 11/11/2009 2:14:16 PM , Rating: 2
I replaced Vista 64bit with Win 7 64bit on my HTPC and Desktop. I liked it so much I bought a newer laptop with it pre-installed and plan to upgrade it to Win7 Pro as well (comes with 64bit Home Premium).

Microsoft did well with their compatibility checking tools, multiple compatibility modes, and Windows XP Mode for backwards compatibility. So far all my old hardware (except the Pentium 4 M, 6-7 year old laptop) works with Win7 (and the laptop only had a couple of missing devices...bah, I just wanted a new laptop) and everything runs much better than it did under Vista. Overall very happy with the upgrades.

By RjBass on 11/11/2009 2:22:31 PM , Rating: 2
Same here. I upgraded an older Gateway laptop with a single core Turion 64 CPU. Everything works except for the sound, but a $12 USB plugin sound card from Newegg took care of that issue. The laptop actually can't really be used as a laptop anymore as one of the monitor hinges broke. So we just keep it on the kitchen counter and don't move it around much. So the USB sound card really doesn't get in the way or bother us much. And the older laptop loves 7. It boots faster and is more responsive then it was with XP.


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