I've installed 64 bit Win7 on my own machine at home and one machine at work. I never do an in-place upgrade, so these technically aren't "upgrades". However, my comp had Vista and the work comps have all been XP.
I'm going to try it on an old Dell XP laptop soon, just to see if it handles any better. I think you're wrong about businesses. From what I hear, they see Win7 as a sort of Vista SP3. i.e., the OS has now matured enough to use. Also there's the fact that most newer comps can handle 64 bits (read: more memory), so they need to be upgraded anyway. On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 12:56 PM, David K Watson <davidkirkwat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rather than just bickering about it, tell us a little about these people. > > I, for one am curious about who is running Win7and why. Like: are > they putting it on work machines or personal machines? Is it mostly > preinstalls on new machines or upgrades on old machines, and if the > latter, was it from XP or Vista? Also, on the upgrades, are they running > to se7en or fleeing their old OS? > > My own expectations are that I just don't see all that many XP users > rushing out to upgrade, and I can't imagine businesses being ready > for a while yet. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
