> 1) You don't want Win7 right now. It will be a year or two before M$ > works out the defects. Meanwhile you will you will be using XP, a > version that has been worked on long enough to have fixed many of the > worse defects.
I can hear Tom now at home now, whimpering like Dr. Smith from "Lost in Space," "Oh, Will, the pain, the pain. I simply can't bear to try it...." MS is actually ahead of the game in driver support; they've insisted that there won't be the problem as there was with Vista and so far, that claim has been delivered. When I installed the beta on a new laptop at work, Dell had no video drivers on their site that would install. All would bork out claiming the OS wasn't supported, even for Vista drivers. Instead, I used the Windows update driver function and had it pull down drivers from the MS database. Viola! Video drivers that worked. In fact, *all* of the other drivers were native to the OS. Other than that, my Win7 experience has been almost boring in that regard; no problems at all. So, again, I ask, who should you listen to? Someone like Tom who's never even touched Windows 7 or from people who have actual experience installing and using it? (And no, you don't *have* to upgrade.) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
