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So how can you as a user 7 look and feel to their next
get a copy of Windows 7? operating system. Specifi-
First of all, if you are in the cally, the return of a real
market for a new machine, Start Menu. Not the hybrid
forget about walking into one in Windows 8.1, but one
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out there I can hear already
In fact, some computer man- will just say, “Ditch Windows
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cessful OS since the launch
of Windows XP. Vista was
horrible, and with Windows
8, quite frankly to this
writer, to this very day I
scratch my head thinking,
“What is this crud?” Win-
dows 8 is by all accounts a
massive departure from the
Windows operating systems
of the past. It did away with
the Start Menu, which had
been a staple of the fran-
chise since Windows 95.
For these reasons above,
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IT Professionals alike did
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dows 7 on existing ma-
chines, and anything new
means is you get a shiny new by 20 percent recently. Most
machine, but with Windows likely due to Windows users
7 preinstalled. put off by Windows 8. So in
If you have an existing the interest of fairness, and
machine and you want to up- because I do not want my
grade say from Vista (you
poor souls), really you only
have one choice. That
choice is buying a copy on-
line from a third party re-
tailer. You cannot buy
copies of Windows 7 on
blog and Twitter feed blown
up by Mac fanboys with cries
of unbalanced writing, I
throw this out there as an al-
ternative as well. Just make
sure you can do everything
you are wanting with a Mac
shelves anymore, or from Mi- that you are currently doing
crosoft directly. However,
many retailers stock piled
copies of Windows 7 in an-
ticipation that Windows 8
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on a PC.
Finally there are a num-
ber of open source (free) op-
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there before making final
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sure that these are still orig- Not all programs will install
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that they order, they are still ensure you are not buying
keeping Windows 7. In my pirated software.
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time like Windows XP was. ready confirmed reports
Whether it sticks around for coming out of Microsoft that
as long as XP remains to be the company got the mes-
seen, but it’s going to be a sage on Windows 8 and they
long time. are bringing back a Windows
tem, so again, word of cau-
tion before switching.
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