Is is worth upgrading from XP to Window 7?

[Churchill]

WHS

PCs are well cheap in a post-PC world

EMS memory addressing was

Makes one appreciate proper 64-bit mode

In my new role I get the latest hardware for free from Intel...

[AtW]

16 MB, luxury lad etc...
I paid £99 for a 1 MB upgrade board for my IBM PS/2, that was a serious upgrade then too

WHS

PCs are well cheap in a post-PC world

EMS memory addressing was

Makes one appreciate proper 64-bit mode

[Goatfell]

Cheap price, I remember time when 16 MB was worth more than that ...

16 MB, luxury lad etc...
I paid £99 for a 1 MB upgrade board for my IBM PS/2, that was a serious upgrade then too

[ChimpMaster]

What do you mean "ouch"?

yeah good point, it's only a few day's work.

[ChimpMaster]

Damnit just realised my motherboard will only hold 4 x 1Gb RAM! (according to the Crucial scanner)... might need to get a new motherboard methinks

EDIT: was wrong, it'll hold 4 x 2Gb, so it'll be OK................................

[AtW]

just checking out the prospect of extra RAm now that I'll be runnign 64 bit OS... 16Gb of RAM (2 x 8Gb) at around £125 !! ouch.

Cheap price, I remember time when 16 MB was worth more than that ...

[Churchill]

just checking out the prospect of extra RAm now that I'll be runnign 64 bit OS... 16Gb of RAM (2 x 8Gb) at around £125 !! ouch.

What do you mean "ouch"?

[ChimpMaster]

just checking out the prospect of extra RAm now that I'll be runnign 64 bit OS... 16Gb of RAM (2 x 8Gb) at around £125 !! ouch.

[Sysman]

However he does have a point if the OP is a contractor who needs some level of compatibility with client corps.

That's one of the reasons why I don't use linux or a Mac - No client I've ever been at in the last 20 years has required me to use them, it's nearly all been MS/Windows/Office/PC.

Funnily enough that was exactly my motivation for choosing a Mac in the first place. I hated the PC at work so much that I didn't want that experience in my leisure time too. I was working at a bank at the time, and contractors didn't get access from home, so compatibility wasn't a concern.

Although there was dear old VMS in a gig in Germany, and OS2 when I worked in Scotland. That's foreigners for you.

Dear old VMS. Excellent documentation and reliability. Poor marketing meant the contracting market shrivelled and it was time to move on.

Hang on, was OS2 ever run on a Mac? I can't remember what the hardware was.

Dunno. I ran it on a 486 back in the mid nineties, by which time it was called Warp.

[TheFaQQer]

However he does have a point if the OP is a contractor who needs some level of compatibility with client corps.

So, what runs on Windows 7 that doesn't run on XP? I've seen software which I might use for development which runs on XP but not on Win7, but nothing the other way round.