by Steve James on Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:34 pm
How much memory are you running? W7 needs 2x as much as XP. Not to worry, because most new machines take much more memory as well. figure on 4G as a minimum. That's enough to give you headroom. Fwiw, I've had no problems installing programs on W7. Otoh, I also have a machine running XP (as the base for my small network).
You could also consider that W95 still works fine, too. If a user were satisfied with it, there'd be no reason to change ... except that programs are not being written to run on it. The same thing will happen with XP eventually.
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