I do not agree with your views on the wisdom of waiting for "SP1"

There was nothing "Horrible" about Vista (SP0 ... original).

There was nothing "Horrible" about XP (SP0 ... original).

Sure, there were a few issues; there will ALWAYS be issues.

Sure, there WAS a service pack; there will almost always be service
packs (although I'm not sure that there was a service pack for ME).

Windows 7 is really not much more than a service pack of Vista. For
that reason, I expect far less issues with Win 7 than there have been
with other OS'; and I don't necessarily accept the common (but not
necessarily correct) Wisdom that one should wait for SP1. Although I
can accept the wisdom to wait for a few weeks to a month or two for web
reports of experiences .... there is certainly nothing wrong with
letting other people be the "guinea pigs". But in the past few
operating systems ... indeed I'd go back all the way to 95 ... the
changes from SP0 to SP1 have not been SO great that waiting was really
justified, for most people (ME was just plain bad, period; and was never
fixed, the SP for ME was XP).

Also, we have a tendency to judge OS' not in terms of the environments
in which they were developed and released, but in terms of today's
environment, or, looking at older discussions, the environment(s) (still
subsequent to release) in which they were discussed. That is wrong and
is not fair or appropriate. If one operated in that manner, we would
all wait for the "next" version ... forever.


Larry wrote:
> Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in news:h24d45$ipe$1
> @news.eternal-september.org:
>
>> Some of us ... like probably most of the computer users in the world ...
>> actually LIKE Windows and have as much distaste for Linux as you do for
>> Windows.
>>
>>
>
> I don't distaste Windows. I've been using Micro$oft's products since DOS
> 1.0 was released on 8086 hardware! I'm using WinXPSP3 typing this message
> because it's convenient and familiar with Xnews, a very old usenet client.
>
> I'm sorry you got that impression that my post placing the 1GB limit on
> Micro$oft was simply reporting all the thousands of articles written on the
> subject.
>
> One of my friends wants to install Win7 on his box. I've asked him to wait
> until 2010 for SP2 or 3 until a significant number of major bugs users find
> are ironed out. He failed to listen and upgraded to Vista 1.0 on day one,
> paying dearly for his transgression.....(c;]
>
> I missed several horrible "upgrades" like ME, Vista, some NT flavors here.
> I've never been much of a "retail beta tester" for any software.....
>
> WinXPSP3 is a very stable product. I just wish its company wasn't so hell
> bent on destroying it.
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