Personally I think Windows 7 will be a hit.

Danny

So painful.

Watching those videos is so painful. It’s like listening to some kid’s parents trying to be hip and cool by using words such as “bodacious” and “radical”.

I’ll be sticking with XP in the foreseeable future. I’d switch to Ubuntu or something, but I have a bunch of obscure, Windows-only games I play (which may or may not Wine well, especially if they’re Japanese like the Touhou games).

– Alex

In response to engadget’s through breakdown of upgrading, we have decided to share our upgrade experience with all of you by extending Microsoft’s helpful chart.

Have you ever come across a problem where you think that it can be solved effectively by reaching another goal? As Alex says, now you have 2 problems. I was going to try out Cake PHP on my windows xp pro box. To my displeasure I would need to get IIS to work properly (window’s internal server). I thought that it would be simpler and better in the long run to install ubuntu on my laptop (x41) with no cd drive.

After getting PXE to work for the laptop using the desktop as the server, I was able to install what I thought to be a standard version of ubuntu, by standard I mean one with a gui like gnome ready to go. Turns out I installed a version with no gui. No problem I thought I can just install x, and go from there. Unfortunately I moved the laptop to my room, and because I didn’t have the wireless network card installed, (non standard intel driver). I would have to go to where the router is again to connect it with an wire. 3 hours has gone by and I’m completely out of energy to do anything about the original problem.

The lesson, the simplest solution is not always the easiest to obtain.

Two Problems

The “you now have two problems” bit I heard from Coding Horror:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.

– Alex