Replying to Windows 7

I'm pretty sure you are right, but this does not mean that it will work "without installing any driver".
I'm sure drivers for selected new hardware the drivers will be included, but a lot of hardware (like my photo camera) will not.

that's right, similar to my old brother printer... i had to do some googling for few hours - trying out a few drivers as well before i finally hit one that worked *phew*

I'm damn sure that your printer drivers are likely to run under windows 7 without any issues.

I'm pretty sure you are right, but this does not mean that it will work "without installing any driver".
I'm sure drivers for selected new hardware the drivers will be included, but a lot of hardware (like my photo camera) will not.

Yordan, Windows 7 Makes use of backwards compatibility support and virtual machine feature. I am sure you know about their virtual machine mode for the XP compatibility and the driver support system for the windows 7. There are plenty of articles which explains this in better way than what i can do here. This makes it easy for the operating system to roll back driver state for the old operating system version. So if your drivers work with windows XP theya re surely going to work under windows 7. In case of vista, that facility was not there. They just messed up with many of the features related to the file system, processes and the drivers. So this whole mess ends up in less support for devices and overall unstable system. The reason windows 7 was quickly rolled out is because they fixed these issues and allowed old hardware to accept under this OS. As you know systems purchased in 2006 are likely to run windows 7 without any changes. For example, old pentium 4 processors are still running windows xp and so they can run windows 7 without any issues. I'm damn sure that your printer drivers are likely to run under windows 7 without any issues. I'm just not sure about some of the drivers in vista because that was total fail.

One of the best things, We don't need to install any driver for any device in windows7.

Not really sure. I had to install new drivers for my laser printer and it still does not work correctly under vista because it's too old, I'm pretty sure it will not work better under Windows 7.
Some new peripherals will probably have Windows7 drivers, but we cannot say that will never need to install any driver for any device.

I like both Windows7 & redhat, but windows is more powerfull where we can install our fav softwares. One of the best things, We don't need to install any driver for any device in windows7.

There is a topic about a free trial version of Windows 7 for people who work with internet and with computers.
This version is designed by Microsoft to enable them to see if Windows 7 meets their needs.

Here is the link to this topic with the link to the website where a free trial version of Windows 7 is available for professionals in the information and communcation technology sector.

http://www.astahost....als-t22258.html

For example, if you have a new computer, bought this year and you'll try to install Windows XP, in most cases you'll be successful, but you may not get drivers or those drivers won't be so good for XP than for Windows 7 or with XP you won't use all the hardware capabilities available.

Furthermore, here is a good resource: http://en.wikipedia....indows_versions

That's pretty much it when it comes to new games coming out. To use the lastest Direct X. To make use of ATI and NVIDIA's cards new graphics/processing capabilities. To make use of 64bit processing in gaming. Running video cards with 1GB or more of memory. Multi-processor setups. Not to mention all the new specifications and motherboard capabilites your are locking yourself out of when it comes to still running XP. Sure XP can be had almost anywhere on the Internet, but to have real hardware productivity now days you might want to consider the upgrades. Unless you are some Linux fanatic who just happens to a be a very adept video/hardware programmer in the industry with all the funds and free time to dabble with code, your best bet is to just upgrade.

I upgraded. I just fall back on XP when i comes to running old software via M$ Virtual PC - which is a Free download.

Levimage

Yes, it depends on the hardware, I think all the newer hardware is really capable to run windows 7 smoothly and if you want to use the capabilities of that hardware it good to install windows 7 and use it, but if you have a bit older hardware, so why worry about it, just use windows XP which is also good with Service Pack 3 and have no problems, most of software works on XP, well maybe expect some new software which requires windows 7, but if you have an older hardware it's a doubt you'll need it anyway.

I guess XP and 7 seems to be the best OS from Microsoft?

Even though I remember times, when a lot of people didn't want to move from Win 98 to XP, due to XP needed much better hardware and it sucked at that time, after service pack 1 and 2 it got much better and most of people at that time renewed their hardware, but most of that times games ran on 98 much better than on xp or win 2000 as I remember, but of course, as I said, it all depends on your hardware.

For example, if you have a new computer, bought this year and you'll try to install Windows XP, in most cases you'll be successful, but you may not get drivers or those drivers won't be so good for XP than for Windows 7 or with XP you won't use all the hardware capabilities available.

Furthermore, here is a good resource: http://en.wikipedia....indows_versions

It's a good idea to upgrade to Windows 7, but only if there is adequate hardware to support it. Otherwise it may be a bit sluggish and may not give the desired performance. That is why there are a lot of XP users who still feel that Windows 7 also hogs their system resources like Vista does, and then they say that Windows 7 is no good at all!

The general idea is that it is not possible to update from windows xp in order to get windows 7 installed on the computer. so it might be very nice to hear what special procedure is followed that makes it possible to update windows xp to windows 7.

windows 7 has a lot of drivers included in the dvd. so for a lot of things that needed seperate drivers in windows xp, like drivers for sats hard disks, are no seperate drivers uploads needed anymore in windwos 7.

Yeah, I'm thinking of upgrading my older computers to Windows Starter. Just to stay with the times. I also found out it is possible to upgrade to Windows 7 from Windows XP. Cool huh? Other technicians I've talked to said... Nope, you have to upgrade to Vista then to 7. Goes to show how much they know.

Now I just have to search for x32 and x64 versions of drivers. Yup but it's cool. It let's me know which manufactures are not updating their old devices for Windows 7 Drivers.

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