Is is worth upgrading from XP to Window 7?

[Spacecadet]

Office 2010 is a pile of tulip

Works fine for me, even has features which meant I HAD to upgrade from 2007

[russell]

7 is the best OS MS have came out with.

[Churchill]

7 is the best OS MS have came out with.

Wrong, that was OS/2 along with IBM in the early days.

Hth.

[d000hg]

All new Linux distros come with Libre Office which is like Openoffice but better. There's nothing, apart from advanced gaming probably, that Win 7+ Office can do that Mint + LibreOffice can't.

SQL Server?
Visual Studio?

- Photoshop
- Quark Xpress (or whatever they use these days)
- Matlab
- The majority of scientific software

Not to mention properly supporting MSOffice files... it STILL can't do proper formatting AFAIK, since people using it mention my .docx files don't display lists and things properly.

And "advanced gaming" is perhaps THE thing which has spurred more advance in PC technology than any other, so saying "Linux can do everything except advanced gaming" is a pretty poor argument in its own right.

[Platypus]

I've gone for Win 7 Pro 64bit on my new-build PC. Very happy with it.

Make sure you've plenty of RAM. I'd recommend 8GB or more. A multi-core processor would be ideal too. At least 6 cores...

^ WHS

I stuck with XP until January this year. Very happy I switched.

[Platypus]

- Photoshop

Is supported on W7

[Spacecadet]

Is supported on W7

Thats the point he was making

[Platypus]

Thats the point he was making

Ooops. Yes, I see that now

[Doggy Styles]

I've had W7 Ultimate for a year now. Not a huge difference in UI from XP. Seems to work pretty well.

If you turn Windows auto-update off.

And remove all the "free software" that PC vendors helpfully install for you.

And turn off file indexing.

[Spacecadet]

And turn off file indexing.

I like the file indexing, saves me having to be organised as I can find anything almost instantly
Plus the indexing updates seem to run when the laptop isn't being used so it never impacts on normal use