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Five Reasons You Will Want To Leave XP for Windows 7
If you use a Windows PC, odds are that you’ve stuck with Windows XP instead of upgrading to Vista. If that’s the case, good for you, and how lucky you were that you’ve been able to keep your computer in shape well enough to not have to replace it for all these years. Or maybe you did buy a new one, but paid to have XP put onto it.
Well, it’s time for a change, and Windows 7 might be just the thing to convince you. Actually, you’re not going to have much choice, although you think you will. Here are some reasons why you should think about switching to Windows 7 pretty quickly once it’s out
1. There will be no more service packs for XP. It won’t even be supported anymore by the summer of 2010. If you really believe you can last on XP forever, it’s just not going to happen.
2. Technology slows down for no one. If your printer breaks, or you need a new scanner, or even if you just want to upload pictures to your computer from your digital camera, at a certain point you’re not going to be able to buy new products that XP is going to be compatible with. Unlike what Microsoft did with Vista, they’ve already given all the appropriate code to all manufacturers, so there won’t be any reason for those companies to keep producing technologically backwards items. And how long do you think ink manufacturers are going to keep making cartridges for 10 year old printers?
3. Everything is moving towards 64-bit. If you don’t know what that means, all you really need to know is that it’s bigger and faster technology and Windows 7 was made specifically for it. So were many versions of Vista, which is what caused so many problems with our hardware and other programs. Windows 7 has promised that many of your older programs that wouldn’t work with Vista will work with Windows 7.
4. Did we mention speed? Windows 7 is meant to use every single ounce of new DDR3 technology for RAM chips, whereas XP is limited by how it can use newer technology. We all want our computers to run faster; we want to download files faster. We want our external hard drives and our home and business networks to move information faster. XP can’t keep up; Windows 7 is much superior.
5. Windows 7 is purported to be more stable than XP. What many people forget is that XP was a dog until the second service pack came out. Windows 7 is supposedly better than that, and something XP people didn’t know about Vista is that you almost never got the blue screen of death for anything because Vista’s one strong point was that it could isolate one program going bad from everything else, so you wouldn’t lose all your other data with a system crash. Windows 7 improves on that and supposedly finds ways of allowing you to fix a program rather than just shutting it off.
All in all, you can fight it if you want to, but it’s probably better to pay for an upgrade as soon as possible, which is going to be much less than previous software upgrades. Maybe Microsoft is learning some lessons from Apple.
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