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BillE · 10-25-2012, 07:08 AM

OT!

On Win7, where is the 'clipboard'? I've tried everything I know to find it.

Thanx!

Bill

There are times I really miss 3.1

Evan.J · 10-25-2012, 07:29 AM

I have used win7 on my MacBook Pro for a small amount of time and its ok. As with win8 and any new microsoft OS there are gonna be plenty of bugs and fixes. They never seem to get it right until they release the first service pack. I would hold off on the Win8.

swanicyouth · 10-25-2012, 09:08 AM

I jumped to Mac about 3 years ago. Best thing I ever did.

KneeDragr · 10-25-2012, 09:36 AM

I will put it on my box in the basement this weekend, just to try it out.

Evan.J · 10-25-2012, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by swanicyouth

I jumped to Mac about 3 years ago. Best thing I ever did.

100% agree never looked back

mullet · 10-25-2012, 09:45 AM

Every other Win OS turns out to be worth using. Win8 falls into the in between good OS area for me. I played with a Beta copy a while back and absolutely hated it mainly because of the Metro interface. As mentioned a few posts above, you'll need TONS of memory to run it properly. I don't own any hardware that will even support 8gigs of RAm and I'm sure not going to buy all new hardware to run a new OS. Win7 works just fine on my oldish laptop and my wife's and daughter's netbooks. Ubuntu server works perfect for my old desktop turned media server.

I can see 8 working on the Surface, but not for any sort of desktop usage. Hopefully MS proves me wrong but I'm surely not optimistic about it going off past experiences.

LF911PCR · 10-25-2012, 10:38 AM

It's actually a cross platform device. PC/Computer has become a bad word for Microsoft...the new word is DEVICE. This OS, Win 8, is a cross device operating system.
Win 8 seems really bullet proff. One of the PCs I upgraded has lots of applications on it, including Quickbooks 2009 and the upgrade went virtually free of problems. Every applicaiton is working perfectly...which by the way, is very surprising. Just fyi...

Ted S. · 10-25-2012, 10:59 AM

I went from Win7 to Linux Mint in August. Before that I was running Win7 and Ubuntu as a dual boot. Lots of things I still have to play with on the Linux Mint, but I like it a bit more than Win7. For the price of putting a Windows operating system on a PC, why not just run Linux? (Except for the time-investment to learn to use it as you would Windows...)

mwoolfso · 10-25-2012, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BillE

OT!

On Win7, where is the 'clipboard'? I've tried everything I know to find it.

Thanx!

Bill

There are times I really miss 3.1

Windows 7 has a clipboard, just not a clipboard viewer. You can download a free utility that adds this feature or you can transfer the utility from a Windows XP system (clipbrd.exe).

flyinion · 10-25-2012, 02:50 PM

I was originally mildly interested in it for my desktop PC (still need windows, I do a LOT of PC based gaming). Now not so much. You used to be able to toggle between the new Metro UI and the old Win7 style UI. Then during beta they removed that ability and forced everyone in to Metro. I just don't think Metro is a good call for a desktop PC. However I game with a lot of MS guys on WoW and I'm sure one of them will eventually convince me later down the road to upgrade.

I DO think it will be an excellent OS for any portable device with a touchscreen (laptop, tablet, etc.) or kiosk setups. My "best guess" is that Win7 is going to be the new WinXP. I.e. it's the one people will use for years until MS drags them kicking and screaming from it because they're ending support.