RE: Re: windows 7

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's one that I found a killer just very recently....

If you have a new-ish HD camcorder using the AVCHD format, neither XP or
Vista supports this, and I spent far too many man-hours trying to retro-fit
support for this file format into Vista via numerous 3rd party codecs, none
of which worked properly. 30-45 minutes clean install of W7 later, and
viola, pixel-perfect playback of AVCHD files straight off my camcorder
without having to do a thing, it just worked right out of the box...

Just one small example, I'm sure others will chime in with many more...

Paul G.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
lexfordparc
Sent: 25 August 2009 11:26
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: windows 7

That depends primarily on what you want the PC to do.

XP is a good OS and fulfill pretty much all basic requirements. However, XP
is / going end-of-life. Windows7 is much prettier (some people will laugh
for others this is very important), Windows7 supports latter versions of
things like DirectX which if you are a games player is important. In a
corporate environment Windows 7 offers much greater flexibility and
managability when it comes to deployment, securing and control.

Paul

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Howard Peters <howardsixtynine@...> wrote:
>
> Hope this isn't hijacking the thread too badly, but can anyone give a
good
reason why you'd upgrade from XP to 7?
> I've installed it on a test machine and had a quick play, and thought
'so
what?'. What does it do that you can't do with XP?
>




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