Windows 7: Operating system guidance for PC buyers
With a new version of Microsoft Windows on the horizon, Jon Wilcox examines the options for PC buyers.
With the tax year drawing to a close, companies who are fortunate enough to be in a healthy cash position are often advised to consider hardware upgrades to take advantage of tax allowances for capital expenditure. In most cases, this is likely to mean a new PC.
Microsoft Windows dominates the business computing market with two current versions of its Windows operating system.
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Nobody panic!
As I've commented before - It's really not worth spending money to upgrade existing kit with new versions of Windows. A PC designed with Windows 98 in mind will NOT be happy running Windows Vista or 7 - You're just asking for many hours of heartache.
I've never has the slightest trouble with Vista, and I don't think I've EVER seen a 'Blue Screen of Death' on a machine that shipped with Vista installed. Most applications also WILL work fine (with some notable exceptions where the software houses were too busy/lazy to sort them out).
I've been running the Beta of Windows 7 on my little MSI Wind netbook, and it's been a real pleasure - more responsive than Windows XP, and with lots of nice little extra to make life easier).
WIndows 7 is 'Vista version 2' - same underlying plumbing - so if your software/hardware is OK for Vista, it should have few issues with Win7.
As and when you come to get new hardware, then just go with whatever comes installed, make sure you have plenty of RAM (2Gb upwards), and you'll be fine.
On the earler post re Sun workstations - All OK for a software developer, but good luck trying to find a decent bit of accounts prep software that'll run on Linux!
Vista SP2 - one for the 15%
Microsoft has released a near-complete version of the upcoming Vista Service Pack 2, the final major update for the 'popular' Operating System:
Based on our traffic data though, only 15% of you reading AccountingWeb.co.uk will really need to know this!
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Windows 7 - you can have XP after all ..........
Good news for all those legacy software developers
Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 will exist