Re: Windows 7

I hear ya. I bought a laptop last year with Vista Ultimate pre-installed on it. After wiping everything HP out of it and using a clean install of Vista Ultimate for a week, I went back to XP. Took a whole day of driver hunting for a system that wasn't designed for XP to begin with, but I got everything working perfectly and it runs ridiculously well with it's much higher than needed requirements. Vista and the upcoming Windows 7 still offer nothing that XP can't do.

I'm staying away from Vista and Windows 7 for a very different reason - compatibility. Over 10% of today's printer drivers won't work with Vista, and MS refuses to fix this problem with Windows 7 at all. Instead, they insist that compatibility with Windows Vista is more important, and intend to focus on that.

Whatsmore, the minimum system requirements are higher than what my machine is. Needs 512 MB of RAM? I've got 256. Needs a DVD ROM drive? Mine only reads CDs. Needs a 128 MB of video RAM? I've only got 16.

Sorry, I wouldn't try Vista or Windows 7, even if I got it for free. Next OS, please.

- Tricob.