[ale] OT "1 step forward, 2 steps back"

[Calvin Harrigan]

I use Win 7 at work and have an install at home as well, the VM thingy 
only works so so.  Even less so for games and multimedia apps.  There 
are quite a few bits of software that doesn't work under Win7 even in 
compat. mode.  Again mostly games and multimedia apps.  Also 7 
explicitly prevents 16 bit apps from running.  I would recommend anyone 
who HAS to have full winxp compatibility to use vmware player.  The hard 
drives are changing the way they are formatted and report 
head/cylinder/etc information and microsoft has no intention on fixing 
XP, but there are quite a few workarounds for it.

On 5/17/2010 3:48 PM, Preston Boyington wrote:
> mmm... not sure about that.  while I haven't used Win7, someone
> mentioned that it had some kind of VM way of doing 'compatibility mode'.
>
> I would be concerned about the hardware compatibility with modern/near
> future with WinXP* if people are thinking about a unit to upgrade over
> the next few years.
>
> *from cursory reading it seems that hard drives and other parts will not
> (purposely) be compatible with XP.
>
>
> Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>> Software compatibility?
>>
>> On 5/17/2010 3:13 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
>>> Just saw an ad for MicroCenter on their PowerSpec line which includes
>>> Window$7 (supposedly a step forward from Vista) that includes a
>>> downgrade to Window$XP (hence the 2 steps back). I thought that 7 was
>>> what everybody "envisioned" and Micro$haft listened. So why the 2 steps
>>> back if it's supposed to be so good?
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