32 bit or 64 bit?
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I work for a medium-sized IT company and my new work laptop has W7x64. Suspect that the new laptops have had W7 for some time but mine was one of the oldest ones. My main customer (a fairly large Scottish council) is on the verge of moving to W7 & Office 2010 - I saw some notices for training sessions last time I was there.
If you're ready to upgrade now then go with Windows 7. In regards to x86 or x64, I can see why your boss would perhaps want to take that particular shortcut but in my opinion if you're going to test a new operating system then testing x64 is part of that process. At least test it - and if it's a problem then x86 is a viable alternative.
The reality is you'll probably end up adding x64 boxes to the domain over time without even realising as new computers start shipping with it. I run a mixed environment and the overhead is minimal. Your mileage may vary of course but you'll find that out during the testing if you do it properly.
You cant is the simple answer
You buy buy illegal keys that work for a month online for about $20
Also, I thought Windows 8 looked dreadful? At least for PC, i can see its merits for tablets, and phones but for PC the redisgned UI looked hopelessly non-optimal. R.I.P Start Menu...
It looks great and start menu is pointless, with modern windows.
It's not known exactly how desktop and Metro will work together as. All we have is the developer preview, which sole purpose is to show of metro.
It's actually very nice and if you watch the keynotes, it makes very good sense. They are also taken a huge amount of feedback on the uni and more importantly the controls.
Metro is kind of pointless on a desktop, I disabled it after a while because the things I do in Windows daily were hindered with Metro on top. Other things in Win8 are nice though, little changes here and there.
Absolutely nothing that will make me upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 though.
Absolutely nothing that will make me upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 though.
You say that when there are no apps for metro, so it just switches back to desktop. For home use metro is much better. As well as the underlying programming avilable to metro apps. Mainly the huge amounts of information sharing avilable between apps.
It might be really useful to those who have lots of information amalgamated from various social sources into one area but this type of system does not fit into my workspace/ Heck I only have one homescreen on my Android phone.
I also do not like the initial swipe up to show the logon screen bit when you turn the machine (or VM) on.
I also do not like the initial swipe up to show the logon screen bit when you turn the machine (or VM) on.
It's not released yet, it's not even at beta. They set up a log for comments on user controls.
It's not just about social sites. It's handling files and photos being able to save or pull them directly of websites, cloud systems into the program.
For developers I'm sure they will use desktop and it's avilable and will be refined so it's not an annoying constant switch. For 95% of home users. Metro is a far better UI and is far more powerful and so policies so many processes for the user.
It's not just about social sites. It's handling files and photos being able to save or pull them directly of websites, cloud systems into the program.
For developers I'm sure they will use desktop and it's avilable and will be refined so it's not an annoying constant switch. For 95% of home users. Metro is a far better UI and is far more powerful and so policies so many processes for the user.
I realise it's only the dev preview, and i won't hold it by this impression, but so far it's all i have to go off. And personally I hated Windows 8 as it was - even if i liked it - there's no way i would pay to upgrade. I personally think Metro is pointless and a hinderance, and within the people i've asked at my uni, and home, i've met only one person who had anything favourable to say about it, (And he is a big touchscreen user - for which it does make a lot of sense). To me it's a touchscreen UI, that is rather lazily thrown into a PC OS so far. Maybe they'll change it drastically, and I will rethink my opinion - but as it stands, i'll stay clear. Also Windows explorer does not need a ribbon - though there are 1 or two new useful options on it.