I just bought a ne PC w/ W7 & am lost!

[jeffbert]

Having gone from a slow 32 bit system & xp to 64 bits & Windows 7, I am like a little boy lost in a shopping mall. So very little is familiar!

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Good thing you got W7 instead of W8!
Windows 7 is a good OS, once you get used to it you will like it.
I use it at work and sometimes at home. I run Linux Mint at home, but I have Windows 7 installed under a VM so I can run certain programs that don't work under Wine (Windows emulator) under Linux.

My current machine is a quad core AMD with 12GB of ram. I build my own computers from parts. Will probably use an Intel processor on the next one.

[F-Man]

I also went from 32-bit XP to 64-bit Windows 7, but I frankly don't see any difference. Though I do use the classic theme every time.

[Earthshine]

I loooooved XP and W7 so much.

Right now unfortunately I am using W8 and my system is pestering me to update to 8.1 every so often. It took me a few weeks to finally get used to this POS OS and configure it to my special specifications. I would really prefer to have W7 though.

[tailz]

Oh! You should've never gotten Windows 8! There have been many callbacks and complaints about it already! (I knew something was fishy about that windows 8 thing. You can never beat Lucky number 7! )

Oh, and I have windows xp, btw. Mines is slow cause its an older version. Also, there's a few viruses on it that's currently being repaired by Norton.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Linux. Nuf' said. (mac is OK too).

[Earthshine]

I kinda had no choice in the matter when I got my new laptop. I needed a laptop ASAP and at the time there was only one OS option available, I would have gotten a MAC but all the laptops were above my price range and did not have the specifications I needed at the time. :d oh:

W8 is... bizarre and oddly set up. I wouldn't mind it if I just had a tablet as it's painfully obvious it's for a tablet - but mine is on a laptop. It's so cumbersome and awkward but I am used to it now so I don't have many rage fits over it now.

[jeffbert]

Mine is quad core i5 & 8GB @ (I believe) 1600 MHz. My only concern with 7, is that since 8 is already out, how long will Microsoft support 7?

[diehard67]

microsoft tends to support windows for a loooooooong time like 10 years.

and windows 7 is laid out more or less the same as xp as far as the end user is concerned, it just looks like glass, I have trouble finding the edge of the windows when ther are too transparent.

the biggest change was the start menu, but they did that in vista.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Windows 7 will end up like XP did, with corporate America refusing to give it up unless it was pried out of their dead hands. With Windows 7, M$ finally had a suitable replacement for XP (Vista was NOT). Windows 9 will probably be a good OS as M$ will learn from their mistakes on 8. For some reason, their even numbered OS's always SUCK. (Like the StarTrek movies?)