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. -- PIT
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