Patty wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:19:22 -0700, AJL wrote:
>
>> Patty <patty@iainttellin.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor on my desktop which is
>>> about 5 years old. With Vista, the NForce2 chipset gave an error on that
>>> Advisor since it wasn't supported, but Win7 Advisor says all is fine.
>> I'm guessing that this reportedly good W7 compatibility with old
>> machines will be useful for businesses that may want to upgrade
>> without buying a lot of new computers. However I doubt that anyone
>> here will rush out and spend $200 for a copy of W7 to run on their 5
>> year old laptop... ;)
>
> Companies usually get license deals so they probably wouldn't pay $200 for
> each system. I, however, will probably just limp along with XP. ;)

It's not limping if it works well enough to serve it's intended purpose.
XP does everything i need it too. I do not need a bunch of fancy
(resource hogging) bells and whistles & cartoony crap to be productive.

W7's big corporate concession is that there is an XP emulator sandbox
built into the OS so that corporations can run their old apps. We'll see
how well this flies, but I see a whole new support path that will need
to be staffed. Can't wait.

Microshaft has already started a complex new system of licensing
agreements for corporate software. With the evolution of virtual
machines, for workstations and servers, things will probably clearer
than mud in no time.