David, I lag behind with OS updates too. I like to see them get field-tested adequately before I start to trust them. I completely skipped Vista, and W8 was out when I moved from XP to W7. As someone who really doesn't like to deal with weird new anomalies, I can tell you W7 is very much like XP except for some new directories and occasional nags for permissions. W8 took a radical turn in the UI but underneath it it's virtually the same. The new UI stuff is optional but it still gets in the way a lot. Microsoft is bringing back some things they removed and making it easier to avoid their new stuff, but we can already make it look just like XP very easily. In short, any kind of change is traumatic, and I resist some change as much as the next Pick guy, but in this case the long-term worry was completely unjustified when I actually started using both W7 and W8.
HTH T From: David Grenfell Thanks guys for all your input. The only reason I would even consider leaving xp is that it will probably be impossible to get the updates if the system ever crashed. I have now found a program downloads all the updates to cd and will install them easily. So as long as I am not dependent on MS for those updates, I'll be staying with xp. I have an xp install disk with sp2, sp3 on separate cd and now all the updates on another cd so I can install any time I choose to. -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jBASE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
