New IE Vulnerability: XP Users Take Note
Microsoft Warns of Attacks on IE Zero-Day I know the XP topic has been covered extensively and that most XP users here are wise enough to not be IE users, but just in case anyone is still using IE ...
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sue.t wrote:
Now I will be a long-time holdout with Win7. I'm too old to want to work my desktop via a monitor; my shoulders, arms and neck wouldn't appreciate the exercise. As well, makes it hard to eat fried chicken while working.
I'm honestly curious about this. You say you held out against Windows 7 for a long time, but after you upgraded from XP it was a lot easier than you thought. Now you're holding out against Windows 8.1--so moving to Windows 7 didn't really establish any precedence in terms of ease-of-migration? Does part of you wonder if upgrading to Windows 8.1 might be easier than you think, but a larger part is concerned about people who nay-say it?
I'm not trying to be argumentative or anything negative, just trying to understand your point of view. I talk to enterprise customers every week, and have a very good understanding of how they approach upgrades. I'm less sure how consumers think about this, as that's not my area of expertise.
For me, moving from Windows 7 to Windows 8/8.1 was a non-issue. On Windows 7, I would click on an app that I had pinned to the task bar, or tap the "Start" key and then start typing the first few letters of the program name ("wo" for Word, "no" for notepad, etc.). I do the exact same thing on Windows 8/8.1. My main machines are all mouse/keyboard, and it seems to work pretty well for me without touch.
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft. (Yes, I feel obligated to say that in any MS-related thread.) But I'm not one of *those* guys. :-)
