Comment Re:I wonder... (Score 1) 277
are you saying XP is better in the enterprise?
Unequivocally yes.
You are high or in some dinosaur industry. If you haven't moved all your PC's off XP yet you are doomed!
I didn't say we were still using XP. My client had to change off XP because Microsoft stopped making security updates for it, not because of any merits of 7. Along with the previously mentioned, we had to deal with a lot of hardware simply not working at all (no 64-bit Windows drivers) and utterly pathetic system recovery. Have you ever had Windows 7 successfully perform a startup repair? Ever? Me neither, though XP managed it all the time.
Who BROWSES a windows network? Not any sort of enterprise. Why would someone do that? The admin sets the drives,. printers, etc you need based on your location and function.
That works for the most commonly used shares (when Windows 7 remembers to mount them, which is about 50% of the time), but for more than a handful of network shares, you browse.
XP is garbage. Its like saying you want to use win98 in these days. If you have modern touch screen devices, you almost have to use windows 8. I find win8 less stable than windows 7 but windows 7 is surely just as stable as windows 2000.
Or as stable as XP perhaps? XP is nothing like 98 and its crash-tastic glory. Who uses touch screens in the Enterprise? And if they do, they're probably doing it on Android or perhaps Apple.
There are a few benefits to 7 of course: Proper 64-bit support is nice for programs that need more than 4GB and a few more CPU registers available if they're compiled right. That does not matter in an enterprise. The printer system is much improved as is the WSUS system. Marginally better driver detection, although a sysprep is still required for basic scenarios such as switching between AHCI and PATA emulated SATA modes. Can't think of much else I'm afraid.