Star Microsoft Details Windows 7 Downgrade Rights
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 19th Jun 2009 09:45 UTC
Windows Despite the generally positive reception of Windows 7 so far, there will still be many people who will want to stick to Windows XP. For these people, downgrade rights are particularly important, and Microsoft has confirmed the rules of the game to El Reg.
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RE[4]: *grabs Popcorn...*
by kaiwai on Sun 21st Jun 2009 05:22 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: *grabs Popcorn...*"
kaiwai
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2005-07-06

Well it pretty cheap to try windows 7, you don't have to buy expensive apple hardware for it.


A Mac isn't remotely expensive in all due respects. I am from the era where I purchase a machine for NZ$2 grand and make it last 3-4 years. When you break down a machine that is NZ$2 grand, you keep it for 3 years, it works out to be NZ$666 per year, NZ$1.90 per day. That is less than a cup of coffee, less than a muffin.

I'm not trying to be boastful but I have a MacBook and an iMac, and neither of them are remotely expensive; my MacBook when bought with Apple Care was around NZ$2 grand, and the iMac was a similar price. If you go into any of the big retailers in New Zealand, the price for a Mac is around the same price for a Sony or HP laptops being sold.

As for the iMac, the iMac cannot be compared to traditional computers because it isn't a traditional computer; it is an all in one computer that utilises laptop components - so it is not comparing Apples with Apples when you compare an all in one to a piece meal PC system.

The installing experience was a lot better than windows vista or XP with it's 100 updates since SP2.


My parents two computers, Dell, have Windows Vista where I recently updated to SP2; everything works flawlessly. OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 works really well on it for what my parents need (well, they have only one Office 2007 licence - so the other computer uses OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 which my old man prefers anyway due to familiarity with 'office classic').

For all the moaning I hear; Windows isn't as bad as some try to make out - many of the problems I see are actually problems created by the end user rather than something that has appeared out of nowhere. For me, I avoid it because I am incredibly fussy about things - I guess it is true that many Mac users must have OCD lol

I replaced my XP partition with it, cause it needed a fresh install anyway, it does get slower over time when you use it.
A lot of thing now work out of the box, printing seems slower.
As for consistency: Office 2007 is a fine example.
Outlook looks almost the same as the 2003 version and word 2007 is completely alien.


Office 2010 apparently will finish off the transition fully to the ribbon interface (which funny enough I prefer the Office 2008 Mac user interface which retains the menu based system whilst keeping the toolbar and toolbox). For me, the only thing that would ever make me leave Mac would be if Microsoft created an operating system with an Amiga or IRIX like interface and made a clean start from the ground up.

Edited 2009-06-21 05:22 UTC

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