WINDOWS 7 INSTALLATION
Peter Ram-Gopal gave us an excellent talk today all about installing
Windows 7, and then comparing its performance with Windows XP.
You can find out the minimum system requirements for the installation
from the Microsoft website ....
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/system-requirements
Peter recommended we all have a look at this pictorial guide
to installing Windows 7, which is very good ....
http://www.techtalkz.com/windows-7/514412-windows-7-installation-guide-tutorial.html
The 32-bit version will be more compatible than the 64-bit version
when you come to re-install your older software. However, as Peter
pointed out, the 64-bit version is more future-proof, as more and
more software is written for it, as times goes by.
Peter says that Microsoft's Extended Support for XP will end in
in 2014 on April 8th, (their Mainstream Support ended in 2009 on
April 14th.)
As regards the release date of Microsoft's Windows 8, there is a
lot of online speculation ... here is one article that JH has
found on a Google search ...
http://freshnewsdaily.com/technology-news/microsoft-windows-8-release-date-in-summer/574/
