Duncan--don't look now, but Windows 8 is due this year. :) ...though, frankly, I'm far from sold on Metro.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Vista SP3? Francisco, Thanks for this info. I have started my shopping for W7pro. I have questions. L8R. Plan to end with 3 W7pro clients and 2 old XP clients. Best, Duncan On 01/27/2012 10:57, Francisco Tapia wrote: > well i'm a little ignorant on my win7 pricing because well I get my > work laptops pre-loaded from the helpdesk and all my other home > machines are osx ( ~$30 for the sw upgrades) but a google search > kicked out ~ $70 for win7 premium vs ultimate, which really I don't > know what MS refers to as home ultimate vs the workstation ultimate... > but I do agree dropping in another 1/3rd of the original cost on the > damn thing doesnt make a lot of sense except that it's a better piece > of mind, I had vista on the current worklaptop and it sucked, I had > errors, my visual studio would crash... if i left the damn thing > running for over 2 days I had odd behaviors, now I'm on win7 and its' > actually beyond cool, as stable as my work xp machine and it's > speedy/zippy with it's nforce3 flash drive ;) > > -Francisco > http://bit.ly/sqlthis | Tsql and More... > <http://db.tt/JeXURAx> > > > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 20:23, [email protected]<[email protected]>wrote: > >> For sure, but I'm not going to lay out for another copy of 7 for >> this thing. >> >> >> On January 26, 2012 at 3:40 PM Francisco Tapia<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> if it runs vista, wouldn't it be better to upgrade to win7? (good >>> score >> tho) >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... >> >> "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..." >>
