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the makers of my laptop have offered me an upgrade to windows 7 for £27.90 is it worth upgrading?

I've been using it for about an hour now and quite like it. I'll report back later when I've found out exactly what it does

None of the features sound like they will effect me

Dont know much about it yet but £27 seems a decent deal, it costs about £120 new dunnit?

What OS have you got now and what version of 7 would they give you?

got vista home premium or something like that would get the equivlent version of windows 7

Yeah, upgrade.

Been using it on my laptop for months now. I quite like it and not had any problems.

Can you upgrade it and keep your old stuff on? I heard you had to wipe/backup your hardrive first

not sure if i take the upgrade they will send me a disk

Upgrading from Vista should be quick and painless.

Upgrading from XP I think is more hard work and would probably benefit a reformatting of your hard disk.

I'm not using it yet, but I've heard it's a lot faster and 'smoother' than Vista.

Will be moving to it on my next computer.

early conclusion is I like it. it's very visual and feels smoother than vista or xp. for £30 I'd do it if you're not planning on getting a new comp soon

getting a new desktop when i get out of bed(could be a few months yet) but the upgrade is for my new lappy so not planning of trading this in for a atleast a year

sigh another bastard operating system that will have problems with the uni website :(

Vista is fine on it's own but garbage if you don't have compatible peripherals.

Sandy

Sorry for hijacking the thread but i have a quick computer question and you lot all know what you are talking about so....

I used to have a disc with word/excel etc on it but i cant find it now and after re formatting my laptop (think thats what i did) it wiped all the programs!

Is there a download anywhere on the net where i can get microsoft word on my laptop? or does anybody know where i can get it? pref for free

Cheers

Girgy

Not legally, no. You can probably torrent it but you run the risks of viruses etc etc.

Or you can get OpenOffice which is a free office program that is supposed to be a rival to Microsoft Office, I think Sun Microsystems developed it. It's a rival to Office in the same way Linux is to Windows.

Open office can read all the office files you currently have and is free, you can also save files in office format  http://why.openoffice.org/

So if i have a file saved on word i can open it in openoffice and correct things etc and also send via attachements in emails?

yep, I've switched between openoffice and microsoft office between home, desktop and laptop a lot of times and never had a problem.

That was mainly with spreadsheets but I don't think there's much difference with the documents either.

do you have a valid product key ? if so, then it isnt illegal

I did have the product key but it was written on the cd case that i cant find :(

anyone know what the longterm future is for XP ?

i have some customers running a 2003 server/xp client combination and wonder what the future holds. i am thinking they may go for windows 7 upgrades in maybe 18 months time, when all the wee bugs have been ironed out

Norrrr

XP will live forever at work

I would never dare to bring a vista or windows 7 onto the work setup and have been advised not to by various techy people

XP downgrades ftw forever!

arent mircosoft stopping support for xp next year?

Part of the windows 7 professional is the ability to download XP and use it in a compatibility mode ( or something like that) in a separate bit..

@ Ironside, its a standard offer, applies to everyone who bought a Vista Premium laptop after 26/06. With it being £27.90, I'm guessing you have a Toshiba laptop...

after a day and a half of using windows 7 I would like to give it my official seal of approval. it's the bollocks, I love it I do. if it was legal to marry an os it'd be the one I'd choose

I sure have ever needed their support.

Ill have a look tomorrow if I remember as Im not 100% up on the Windows 7 stuff.

Surely they wouldnt stop the XP support next year seeing as most businesses insisted it was still available pre loaded on computers as Vista was so poor.

Any idea if it networks properly?

it insta home networks itself without you having to do anything, quite impressive I thought as my lappy told me it was having a chat to my other lappy

i am quite liking snow leopard at the moment actually..

2nd lappy was vista btw so no idea how it is with xp

Agree with this! I finally installed W7 today (academy (free) licence FTW  :D ) and so far I'm loving it, very slick, very easy to use and just all round lovelyness.

As for XP support - yes that will stop next year, and yes you should think about upgrading soon after that support ends.

As for techy people saying hang on to XP rather than upgrading... well I think it's time to upgrade the techy people you speak to!

that's going over to the darkside though laz

Mmmm as said I havent spoken to them for a while! Hate using them when I can fix 99.9% of it myself.

Thanks for the prompting though, as if I havent got enough on i best get investigating this!  :D

phew thought i had imagined it

once mircosoft stops there support then other firms are going to aswell meaning it will be very vunerable to attack by hackers and virus writters

the only thing that was bugging me about 7 was the disappearance of the 'show desktop' button but I've just now found where it is so I'm all happy

Why am I working now?

Appears Windows 7 is the nuts, but will be able to downgrade to XP, but this is gonna have to be 64bit as Office will eventually be 64bit, but if you downgrade they wont support properly after April?

Just downloaded that Openoffice and its just what i need!

Cheers!

What's better about Snow Leopard?

I'm using just Leopard and I don't see how it could be improved

ugh, what a vile piece of software

Ive got Vista Ultimate on a dell laptop just over a year old, how do you get the upgrade and what version do i need of Windows 7?

Cheers

I'm no expert on W7 yet, but from what I understand the easiest way to do it is to upgrade to the same edition.

So for you it should be Vista ultimate = W7 ultimate. Of course that doesn't mean you can't use the professional edition for instance, but from what I gather you will have to the do a clean install (which is what I had to do).

As for where to get the upgrade, I'll let someone else answer the best place to obtain it, as I was lucky to get my copy via MSDN.

mirco soft district nurse?

Developers Network. But close :).

I downloaded it from MSDN a few weeks ago, and I have to say I think it's a triumph of marketing. There really isn't that much improvement over Vista (which I think is fine, generally, apart from the UAC crapness). The way W7 is now the best thing since sliced bread is impressive marketing, to say the least.

lol, couldn't agree less

I didn't even know w7 had been released until I got to the shop to buy my new lappy so can't say I find the marketing too impressive. grand total of adverts seen prior to purchase=zero

it's incred and abs destroys vista

In what respects? Don't want a blowup about it, just curious as to what you think is so much better? Maybe I've missed something...

And I don't necessarily mean marketing in terms of big adverts. They seem to have managed to get it into people's heads that it's solved all the problems of Vista. I'm not sure how they've done it, or whether it really is light years ahead (IMHO not, obv), but I think the way they've built up to it has been very clever somehow. I just don't know how :).

I'm not aware of any marketting of any type. all I knew about w7 prior to this week was it was a new version of windows. I had no idea when it was out, what was new, whether it was supposed to be any good. in fact I'm pretty sure the only time I'd even heard mention of it was in a couple of threads on blonde and it's unlikely they were part of microsoft's marketing campaign

even if they had got me with their marketing telling me it solved all the problems of vista I would've wondered what the hell they were talking about as I was more than happy with vista

everything about 7 feels right. it's smooth, things are where you think they should be, the new taskbar stuff is great and you wonder why they didn't do it before. much more intuitive, visually it's better and it also seems to run everything faster

super cheap for the Ultimate package...   http://www.software4students.co.uk/Microsoft_Windows_7_Ultimate_32_bit_Edition_Upgrade-details.aspx

Wow, that is a handy site have you used it before?


Cheers

No, I have not used them yet, but they do get the MS seal of approval...  http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/students/promotions/default.aspx

Carl.