On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 10:09:49 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 11/29/2015 2:16 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 19:14:45 -0600, Boating All Out
wrote:

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On 11/28/2015 7:11 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:03:28 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Has anyone here upgraded from Win 7 or Win 8 and, if so, what do you think?

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I will be the last man standing on Win 7 until I hear hundreds of
enthusiastic reviews and find some compelling reason to convert. I'm
very negative on the way Microsoft is trying to push this upgrade on
to people, and I deeply resent their changes to the desktop interface.



I am pretty much in agreement with you but I also recognize that
eventually the change will *have* to be made.

Microsoft is really pushing this upgrade, even to Win 7 users (like us)
who have no complaints or issues. I wonder why.

I agree about the desktop interface. I dislike Win 8 and it's revisions
primarily due to this. I am not a tablet user nor much of a
smart phone user, so the "swiping" of stuff on a computer screen annoys
me. Much more of a point and "click" type.

My Win10 desktop looks like Win7 which looked like XP.
Except for colorized app title bars, which I haven't
bothered to change.
There's some work involved. I'm happy with Win10, though
if you want "privacy" - whatever that means - you have to
disable certain switches.
If you like Win7, stay with it. Stability is about equal.

I have no problems with the stability of XP. The one under my TV runs
happily along for months without a burp, boot or crash.
The one in the Tiki bar gets started cold and rudely powered off at
the cord level with no problems.
I am seriously thinking about reverting back to a PC based MP3 player
in my car and that will really be hard started and stopped.
(run on an inverter, 130-140 degree start up and just powered off)
I used to run DOS on my car players but the XP in the tiki mar seems
to be running fine and my buddy "Atilla the Hungarian" has written XP
hooks into his DOS based player, still the best MP3 player I have ever
seen. (MPXPLAY)

Cars built in the last 10 years come with all that cool stuff included.
But I do get that you get satisfaction from keeping your antiques
running.;-)

I have a finest kind Blaupunct in my Honda and a similar "in dash"
unit in the Ford. They are not as user friendly as the PC based
player. My wife has a henuva unit in the Lincoln but using it is an
accident waiting to happen.
By comparison, having a business meeting on a hand held phone is
trivial.

My PC player runs off a keypad and if you can touch type on a 10 key,
selecting the song you want is pure muscle memory with virtually no
distraction at all.

Because of the power of batch file scripting, setting up multiple
playlists is easy and you can do it in the house. My car PC will WiFi
with the network while sitting in the driveway.
You can set it all up on the house PC and pull it down from the car.