yRaz said:
I will most likely not be buying anything after 7. I never liked the feel of XP and I upgraded from vista because, well, it sucked. If they are going to make DX12 a windows 8 only thing then I'm sure I wont buy it. I already have W7 ultimate, why would I shell out more money for almost the same thing just different looks?
I think it should be 6-10 years for the life of an operating system. I didn't really like XP, but there was nothing wrong with it. Just look at how long that lasted and people still use it as their preferred operating system. MS is trying to push too much too quickly. I'm glad that 7 came out so soon after vista(I have been using 7 since the beta), but we don't W8 to be an ME3, do we?
Last thing techies need are fewer products. I'm glad everything you said will be ignored and life will go on. Windows 8 here i come.
Edit 1:
People set against every new Windows OS is getting old. Vista made me go back to XP. Vista w/SP1 made me forget about XP forever. No one is forcing you to upgrade, but is it wise to bad mouth an unreleased product in a public forum? We all know the people out there that said Vista sucked, yet never even tried it, all because they "heard" it sucked. I loved Vista w/SP1. And I make love to W7 daily. My SSD certainly thanks W7, so does my DX11 video card. I see no reason to hold off, if the W8 reviews are on par with W7. Otherwise you're just saying you can't afford it, by "predicting" how much it will "suck."
Techspot is a tech site. Seems very silly to write off tech not even released yet. Hard to imagine reading a tech site, but hating tech. Thankfully you are not the majority.
Bottom line: If YOU don't have any interest in it, then don't buy it. But for pete's sake, don't try to bad mouth it, because others are listening to you, and they just may miss out on something great, because a "techie" said it was bad!
I love you TECHspot!!!
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yRaz said:
I will most likely not be buying anything after 7. I never liked the feel of XP and I upgraded from vista because, well, it sucked. If they are going to make DX12 a windows 8 only thing then I'm sure I wont buy it. I already have W7 ultimate, why would I shell out more money for almost the same thing just different looks?
I think it should be 6-10 years for the life of an operating system. I didn't really like XP, but there was nothing wrong with it. Just look at how long that lasted and people still use it as their preferred operating system. MS is trying to push too much too quickly. I'm glad that 7 came out so soon after vista(I have been using 7 since the beta), but we don't W8 to be an ME3, do we?
WE?! You sure as heck ain't speaking for me. Last thing techies need are fewer products. I'm glad everything you said will be ignored and life will go on. Windows 8 here i come.
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6-10 years, yRaz?! Um, XP has suppport until 2014. 13 years after it released. I think you are confused. Just because MS releases something, doesn't mean you have to buy it. That is exactly how you come across, and its sad. Very untechie-like.