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Diskkeeper 9 does win74/10/2023 Win8 doesn’t offer anything that anybody has been asking for as far as I can tell. Here’s where things get really frustrating. So while Win7 is nice, we’re still using the XP subset. So MS wants us writing Win7 apps but we can’t because: a) XP is still popular, b) there is no bridge code to hide the details and c) none of the new features are in. Alas still no support for the Vista+ features. Win7 is the spiritual successor to XP and worth the effort. Companies are moving to it as they get new computers but there is certainly no big rush. Win7 is, overall, a success and generally recommended as a required upgrade. Win7 didn’t have any radical changes but it did fix the issues with Vista. Quickly on the heels of Vista is Win7, the current OS. The code pack was the perfect opportunity to write the bridge code once so we didn’t have to but alas no. Still worse is that you can’t even use that code unless you’re running under Vista+ because it’ll blow up. Instead MS released a code pack that adds in the functionality that should be in the framework. NET (which MS said is their platform of choice going forward) doesn’t even support most of the new UI stuff. If you’ve ever written such bridge code you’ll realize that MS should have done it before release. Unforunately nobody wanted to upgrade so applications that want to use these new features either can’t or have to write bridge code to hide the differences. Jumplists, task dialog, restart manager, etc. It was a horrible disappointment in most areas but it introduced some radical UI changes that are popular. MS even extended the support cycle longer than normal to give people time. ![]() Many companies still have no intention of upgrading from XP. ![]() It doesn’t have any of the bells and whistles of modern OSes but it is solid and heavily used. OS Historyįirst there was XP (ignoring anything prior to that) which is a decade old and still popular. I’m more interested in the general public’s interest in the products. Firstly note that I always like to stay with the latest stuff so Win8 and VS11 will be on my machine as soon as they are released. Am I the only one that is not that excited about Win8? I haven’t had time yet to play around with it (waiting for VMWare to upgrade me to Workstation 8) so I might be missing something but I’m just not seeing anything worth looking at.
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