Windows 7 User Submissions
Why I will not upgrade to Windows 7
by Thomas
(Calgary, AB, Canada)
Personally I will not be upgrading to Windows 7 for a few reasons.
1) I own 8 PC's and 2 servers. To upgrade from an XP environment would cost way too much. It's a MINIMUM of $120/licence (10 x $120 = $1,200 MIN). There is a recession going on, just in case you don't know.
The current pricing for upgrades:
Windows 7 Home Premium, $119.99.
Windows 7 Professional, $199.99.
Windows 7 Ultimate, $219.99.
And pricing for the full packaged versions:
Home Premium: $199.99.
Professional: $299.99.
Ultimate: $319.99.
2) Vista turned out to be a lump of coal. I will wait at least 2 years after deployment to see how many patches are released to "fix" new found bugs (bugs that exist that haven't been discovered/exploited yet). By that time, Microsoft will be ramping up for their release of Windows 8 which has been hinted to be in 2012.
3) Microsoft has added in an XP environment to allow users to run existing software.....this just seems to be a marketing gimmick to get a person to migrate to something that isn’t fully functional on its own. There is something not right with this, and I'm amazed that no one else has picked up on it.
4) Upgrading from XP to Vista requires a completely clean installation. That means fully formatting the hard drives. This takes too long, especially since my power user PC's have 1.5 TB RAID arrays.
5) Trying to get things working like I already have, will take too much time to figure out. In business, time = money. It would cost already too much time with formatting, plus add in education to find out how to change the environment to match what I already have. UGH!
6) The choice that Microsoft made with keeping the hardware based DRM nonsense immediately shows me that they didn't listen to all the complaints from Vista. What else didn't they listen to?
7) Some reports are out about W7 being problematic with networking. Since I own 2 servers, this would be a HUGE problem that I wouldn't want to have.
8) The minimum system requirements always go UP with each new OS release. Personally, I think that every new OS should run better and faster on EXISTING hardware.
Minimum Hardware Requirements for running Windows 7:
1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 GB of ram
128 MB graphics card
Aero requires a DirectX 9 class graphics processor that supports a Windows Display Driver Model Driver, Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware, and 32 bits per pixel.
This pretty much requires a new video card in every PC 3 years or older.
9) It’s still as insecure as any other Microsoft operating system.
Lastly, I don't want to end up like all of the people who bought a new PC with Vista installed, only to NEED to upgrade or downgrade to a less buggy operating system.
My girlfriend did buy one such machine. She's lucky if it boots up after 2 hours. That started right after installing one of Microsoft's updates.
I just don't have the time to diagnose what's wrong to fix it. I gave her an older PC with XP installed, and it's running great.
I'm going to add a copy or Wubi so she can start learning to use an alternate to Microsoft.
Optimistically, Microsoft should refund everyone any moneys spent on Vista licenses. Realistically, don't put yourself into the position of being another one of Microsoft's "beta" testers by buying the OS in its first year out.
True beta software testers get the software for free and they get paid to do their work.
Microsoft has a track record of selling software that should still be in the testing stage, allowing their customers to do their work for them; and not compensating them for it.
Then they release a new version of the software and start the cycle over again.
If more people used common sense, there wouldn't be "hype" over anything. Especially when it comes to Windows 7.
