Finally, i upgraded my old Windows XP to Windows 7. Yes, being a tech savvy person, i should have done that ages back. Its Windows 8 that's making waves lately, and now i'm using Windows 7. Sounds funny,though true. My old mates would never believe this.
Well,coming back, 7 is completely a glossy seeming Windows. The feel that 7 gives is very close to XP's. The gadgets are good. Though i'm still adjusting to 7, it feels good to use. And by the way, HD looks best in 7, probably because DVD was the 'hi-tech' thing at the time of development of XP.
All these years, the only reason for me rooting for XP is that XP is easy to insta`ll, and is a complete no-nonsense OS. Old compilers such as Turbo C run smoothly on it. 7 on the other hand, works efficiently and smooth. Its not that its more efficient than XP, but relatively faster.
XP is an operating system which can be used with 1Gb hard disk space, but 7 on the other hand needs atleast 7Gigfor the same. All the additional space required is for the upgraded features. It would not be wrong to say that 7's kernel is a copy of XP's pathbreakign kernel, which still is fun to explore. Very recently, i had a virus infection in which a file called "regsvr.exe" used to load at startup. I deleted the file, and all its associate files, and made a zero command program in C, and renamed it to the earlier's. Now XP runs flawlessly.
Also, XP has a very robust crash protection mechanism. Once i had a file in my Documents and Settings profile corrupted. I copied a file from another system, and replaced the old file with it. Post then, i was able to save my data. The profile was still usable, it would only take time to load the profile, and that becamne the reason i reinstalled XP.
And the best part. XP needs hardly 30 minutes to get installed and running on any multi-core system, whereas 7 needs atleast an hour to copy files, and another hour to get installed. Comparatively speaking, XP has way more advantages over 7.
XP has been one of the finest of the Windows Microsoft has ever released in the last decade(or even in history), and will still remain unless the software giant comes up with something big. Back in 2001. when XP got launched, it had outbeaten all OS's available then in the market, and flagged Microsoft as the undisputed king of softwares. Its XP that hindered Red Hat Linux's development. GNU had to rebrand RHL to Fedora to make it usable. Even OS X developers had to work too hard to save their existing customer bases, and Apple had to launch BootCamp to prevent Mac users to dump their Mac's and shift to regular PC's. And that is one big reason why most of the computers out there still work on XP and nothing else.
And for the fact, i installed 7 on a partition other than of XP's. So i have the freedom of using my 'old pal' XP sideways with this relatively new kid 7
What do you think about this? Do you agree that XP is way superior, or 7 outsmarts it. Feel free to pour in. Comments are welcomed
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