In your case, I wouldn't. You'll just get it with new machines in due course.
Now, as to your Win98 machines - I'd upgrade those yesterday, even if it means throwing them in the trash and buying new. By today's standards, that was a really crappy OS. But let's not hijack this thread with the old WinNT vs. Win9x debate. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Mike Sloane<[email protected]> wrote: > I guess my question, after reading all the various specifications and > comparison charts, is: why should I upgrade from XP? It looks as if I would > have to buy a new machine with more memory and faster processor speed, when > the machines I have now work just fine with under 1 GHz and under 1 gig of > memory. I don't play games or edit movies or watch TV - I just surf the > 'net, do Email, create simple documents, and do limited processing and > storage of digital images. I am all for "progress", but I am not convinced > that I need this next step (aside from the promise of "lack of support" for > XP going forward). I still have Win98SE machines on my network that are > happily running scanners and hosting networked printers; they will continue > to perform those functions until they literally die (and when they do, I > will merely pick up anther discarded "clunker" from freecycle.com and run > it). I am not a Luddite or deny technological improvements, but I really > wonder what it is that Win 7 is going to do for most users. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
