On 1/9/2010 6:47 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2010/1/10 John Boyle <[email protected]>:
>> To Users: I use WIN XP, and today at my computer club, we had a presentation
>> of WIN 7 and the FACT that MANY programs are NOT compatible with it, OR ,
>> the FACT that you have to have the original installation disks, as you have
>> to re-install ALL programs, although you can  and must back up ALL that you
>> have on your computer NOW!
> 
> Well, you take daily backups anyway like everyone else, don't you?

I just want to say, not everyone makes daily backups. To assume so is
naive. Should we all make backups? Sure. Daily? Not unless you're
running a mission critical server that is constantly changing.

>> I was given a WIN 7 Upgrade Advisor disk, to take
>> home, this is NOT WIN 7 itself, but it checks out what you have both in
>> devices and in software, and gives you a list of what will work and what
>> won't! BEFORE, anyone upgrades, it would behoove you to get that Advisor
>> from MSFT! Those of you who just got NEW computers with WIN 7 already
>> installed, I say great, but most of us are in deep trouble, as I see it!!!
>> =-O Â You will either have to find ALL the original installation disks, or
>> get new versions on disks, except for Open Office, which you will just have
>> to download ALL OVER AGAIN!
> 
> Well, OpenOffice.org is not a big download. Takes a couple of minutes,
> if you aren't left behind at stone age with some kind of dial up modem
> thingy or whatever they are called in English.

The stone age isn't so far back. Broadband penetration is under 50% in
the US last time I heard.

>> It seems it is mandatory that you backup ALL
>> your hard drives, even though you still have to have the original
>> installation disks, anyway! Plus you may have to get NEW HARDWARE, Â also!
>> Â How many think WIN 7 is worth ALL this trouble? :-\
> 
> I don't know. I haven't used Windows since summer 2007 and I will
> never use it again.

If only I were so lucky.

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PIT

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