Will Windows 7 finally kill Windows XP?

[thetonestarr]

Deneidez said:

Gilgamesh said:

I'ts pretty obvious that Vista was a failure and many still have Windows XP after being out for 8 years now. I still own XP and I think it's the best, I've tried Vista and I just didn't like it to much. So Microsoft wants to try to end XP with W7, it looks promising and there is a lot of improvements over Vista but it's really not that much different, it's more of a Vista .5.

So the question is do you think that Windows 7 will be the new Windows XP?

Nope, my experiences with vista and with windows 7 have been quite similar. Its almost like windows 7 is new service pack for vista. If people see it like this, they won't use it.

thetonestarr:

It doesn't address all the problems that vista has. Still it won't run older programs. Even those that native work in XP. And do you really buy all that marketing speech? :D

 

I haven't read/seen any Win7 marketing. I'm talking 100% only from experience with it.

And yes, it addresses that problem too. It doesn't address it well - it DOES have that as a problem - but it has it less. Program compatibility isn't an issue, anyways, if you know what you're doing. My main system runs Vista by default and I've had no issues whatsoever with getting programs that "don't work" to run.

Win7 has that same issue, but to a lesser degree. Even so, most programs that are that old and still don't have a newer version to use... probably aren't worth using anyways and likely have a better, newer counterpart available nowadays.