[dba-Tech] XP or Windows 8

On 2013-05-03 2:54 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> There has been many comments on whether to move your desktop OS PC and if to
> move, where.
>
> I am out of the big business end of my computing career and have moved into
> my unretired phase but as friends and relatives are still pounding away,
> there is a consensus forming. TechRepublic has posted an article that seems
> to summarize much the feelings of upgrading to Windows8.
>
> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tech-manager/windows-xp-if-it-aint-broke/82
> 65?tag=nl.e101&s_cid=e101&ttag=e101

> an important  lesson: you can skip Microsoft's upgrade cycle without penalty.

If we needed this lesson, we needed it as lemmings.

Upgrading two boxes from XP to Win7, I found thart Win7 offered no 
features I needed, but several features I needed to defeat in order to 
be able to use the OS at all. Setting up Win8 on my wife's new laptop, I 
had the same experience, only worse.

M$oft's "upgrade cycle" is mostly a euphemism for endless hype and 
endless bugs masquerading as endless improvements.

PB


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> Jim
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