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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by sjwright on Thursday February 13, 2014 @09:32PM (#7236475)
Windows 7 was the first compelling upgrade of Windows in over eight years, it pretty much works, and it was a necessary upgrade to properly take advantage of 64 bit computing.

Windows 8 is a customer-hostile mess that adds very little to the Windows 7 formula.

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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by nly on Thursday February 13, 2014 @10:27PM (#7236695)
> and it was a necessary upgrade to properly take advantage of 64 bit computing.

Huh? I ran Windows XP x64 Edition with no problems before Vista even arrived.

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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by hobs on Thursday February 13, 2014 @10:30PM (#7236709)
A LOT of drivers were not available for xp 64, otherwise you are right, it was just fine.
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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by sjwright on Friday February 14, 2014 @08:39AM (#7238389)
Yep, hence why I qualified it with properly.
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