The biggest competitor to Windows 7 isn't the Mac

After reluctantly moving to Vista when I got my new laptop, I do miss XP.

With 4GB RAM, I think it would fly under XP, instead it slowly memory leaks under Vista. That said, beginning to think IE8 is buggy and a mem hog, so may be time to go to firefox

Heard good things about Win 7, never been a great fan of Mac's (used to support them years ago).

If XP still works, and its a biz machine, can see no reason at all to upgrade at the moment. Likewise, all our office servers still run Win2003, and prob will for another couple of years yet

it makes sense really if your a windows user you wont wanna switch to mac so mac arnt getting there market from that but if your a windows user and you win xp is workign fine why stop using it microsoft woul of been better off building off the xp system and upgrading that rather than hurling through 2 os's win xp is gonna be here for a while with the launch of netbooks even longer also it wont be long till linux is playing with the big boys now they have there foot in the door with the netbooks they will be able to get feedback from useres about there expiriance and take it to the next level

After the "upgrade" to Vista, I'm in no hurry to "upgrade" again.

I don't detest Vista quite enough to scrub it from my machine and start over... but if I did, I'd go back to XP which was not perfect but was the devil I knew.

I'm still using XP - and intend to leap frog over Vista without ever using it (beyond the occasional public terminal, etc).

My wife moved up to Windows 7 when it came out. While I haven't played around with much, it seems to be decent.


But, for now - am waiting for laptops to become commonly available with USB 3.0 ports before pulling the trigger on a purchase.

Well an interesting conversation , but i have to say i am a mac man , they do have their share if irritations but i just love them . I use coda for all my coding requirements it is soooooo slick for me ... they just work .. i know others though that hate them !! i guess it is all boils down to how you use your computer as to which one will suite you .

Its quite funny, it used to be windows versus Mac, and if you were a sandal/toga wearing web developer, then the Mac was your weapon of choice.

But Macs are now getting pretty main stream audiences, which can only be boosted by the iPad.

Where as the windows crowd has turned in on itself, as product delays mean a daft very short timespan before operating system releases, which in hindsight, appears to back fired making Vista still born, and a lot of us windows people very unimpressed.

With googles own effort, and Apple growing, it will be interesting to see if the O/S landscape changes over the next 5 - 10 years, or if MS starts listening to some of the criticism, and windows 7 turns out to be the new XP.

Google OS may be the landscape of the future. if the rumours are to be believed Google are going to offer a free version that displays ad sense on the desktopsidebar and a corporate version which will be highly subsidised.

if the OS is any good how are MS going to compete in the retail sector.

I have been following this thread and I am surprised no one has yet mentioned Linux.

For several years I experimented with many operating systems, yes believe it or not there are actually several viable alternatives to Windoze out there besides the Mac.

After trying OS's such as OS2, Sun Microsystem's Solaris and several versions of Linux, I have now been using Linux Ubuntu for the last several years. The reason being, it does everything Windoze can do and a whole lot more - and it can be had for free - legally!

It comes with a full office suite which is pretty much a button-for-button replacement of MS Office; it uses Firefox as its default web browser, and it has literally thousands of very useful programmes which can be obtained for free.

The latest version, Ubuntu 10.04 was released only a few weeks ago and is arguably as good as if not better than the latest offering from MS.

It is well worth looking into, you can easily install it on the same system as Windows for a permanent installation, or you can run it within windows to trial it.