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RE: Re: windows 7



I have a Technet sub, but even though I do already have the RTM code,
(downloaded it a couple of weeks ago) I haven't in truth got round to
upgrading any of my 3 W7 machines from the RC yet...

P.

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Paul Gale
Sent: 16 September 2009 19:22
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: windows 7

Paul - is this via your action pack sub (I think you had a sub yes???)

I see that Windows 7 is due in this month's update.

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 16 September 2009 17:01
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: windows 7
>
> 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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