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Originally Posted by Joykins
Yup. The thing I did right before Windows 8 came out was snap up a nice Win 7 laptop cheap on clearance. I plan on using 7 until I get a new laptop. at work we're starting to use 7 this year but I'm still on NT, so I'm in no rush at all. I'm still figuring out Office 2007 tbh and I work in IT 
And you know? The only reason I got that new laptop is because my old Vista one from '07 is literally falling apart. I'm giving it to my kid for Minecraft once I get all the possible bloatware off it. |
This is pretty much what I did, too, but the laptop I upgraded from was one bought the last year XP was available (I never bothered with Vista). I might have continued to use that, but the June storms caused a power surge that either overwhelmed my surge protector or it came via the network cable, which is not connected to the protector - it did something. I was able to restore the computer from the original restore disks, but I was too nervous that something more critical was wrong. I wasn't hearing anything interesting to me about Win 8, so I decide to go buy a nice laptop that still had Win 7.
My workplace is *supposed* to convert to Win7 sometime this year....of course, I heard that late *last* year, so I don't know if it's true or just another rumor.
And I *still* hate the Office ribbon we were forced to deal with when we upgraded to 2007.