of course i'm OS X. I'm curious to see what all you guys use.

Windows XP Pro SP3 is what I typically use but I also test software and give assistance in a number of other operating systems. I tend to stick to Windows, but also dab in Linux as well.

Windows XP and Vista.

Aslong as I can use the Internet, a good Office suite and MSN, I am happy.

Windows XP/MS-DOS 3.3/Debian on my desktop computer, Windows XP on my laptop.

Well, on the laptop bottom, it says "Windows Vista". I dunno, but it just says it.

Vista Home Premium.

Good enough for me.


...

You have MS-DOS 3.3?
What is that for actually?
Its all out of date for over 12 years..

Eh, i use XP, my favourite system, its universal:
Gaming, office, Media Center (Ocourse when its MCE Edition), and also i can browse my phone fully and use it fully, even in apps and its calendar without any other then the cable plugged in
I wont change for any other then another Windows.
Then i would lose Nokia PC Suite. (And i NEED it REALLY much.. )

I might need to install Windows 7 in MSVPC now..
Just remembered it when i saw this topic.. (Some weekends since i downloaded )

Windows 7. Couldn't face going back to Vista or XP now. I'm hooked

I occasionally dabble with different Linux distros as well

Mac OS X 10.5.7... I love it :-)

I've got Windows XP Professional and Windows 7 RC.

my home laptop is XP.....but at school I'm on a mac...and I'm running Snow Leopard.

I'm using Vista and I want Vista.

I really enjoy using Vista. I've had 0 problems. I've also heard that Win7 is going to be fairly expensive when it's released.

I really really really really want OS x D:
I'm stuck with Vista Home Premium.

Perfection.
Purity.

Also because I've got a metric intercourseton of old DOS games and I'm just too cool for DOSBox.

(Besides that, 3.3 came out in 1987 and 4.0 came out in 1988, so it's at least 21 years behind. )

i think i might get a Toshiba with windows 7 just to see what it's all about. i hear it's amazing compared to vista

I disagree. These are the rumored prices:

* Windows 7 Starter: $199
* Windows 7 Home Premium: $259
* Windows 7 Professional: $299
* Windows 7 Ultimate: $319

Definitely not worth that price compared to Vista.

People only like Win7 because other people like it. People only hate Vista because others hate it. Vista is one of the best OS I've used.

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005... First with the Media Center, though no T.V. recorder
~Vincent

True that.

Windows 7 is much overrated. Yes, the startup is faster. Yes, it has a few more features (that can be gotten as freeware downloads) that Vista doesn't have, but there's really not much more to it. Vista update. That's what it is.

Might download it with torrents once it's oficially released. What're you gonna do about it, huh?

Lol, what about it

my friend got the Win7 rc. he loves it. so i'll take his word for it

I'm using Vista HP right now. I would really like to get 7, though, but I don't want to go through the installation.

On my custom-build desktop which is my main computer I use Windows XP Pro SP3 and on my MacBook Pro I have Mac OS X Leopard and Windows XP Pro SP3 on the MBP also (Using VMware Fusion)

(Click on the CPU-Z bar in my sig for my Desktop stats)

I'm currently running Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit, but I also have Windows Vista HP 64 bit in another partition.

I run on the latest version of Leopard. Macs ftw!

I completely disagree with you about Windows 7. I would happily pay those prices to get a solid operating system that is significantly faster, more stable, more compatible with older programs and more secure than its predecessor, Vista. And besides, those prices are RUMOURED prices - no guarantee that the prices will be anything close to that.

And the reason I like Windows 7 is not because other people like it. I like it because I find it better than any Windows operating system I have ever used.


I wouldn't call it a 'Vista update'. I would call it a very capable new operating system, soon to be released.

And no freeware downloads would be able to seriously alter the underlying architecture of Vista, which would be necessary to make Vista like Windows 7 (OK, it would technically be possible...but it would certainly be illegal).


No need to buy a new computer. Just download the Windows 7 RC now for free and dual-boot it (if you don't know how to do this, there's plenty of help in the Windows 7 RC topic). It will stop being fully functional in March 2010, but that's still plenty of time to test it and see if you like it.

well i suppose i could do that.

DOS is even capable of running on my phone
That tells a bit what devs want.. (Good ol' games on the go)
But still, there was some good games.
Like Liero. (Whcih i now have on phone too..)
Uh.. what do you mean by "metric intercourston"?
Is it that you love the DOS games?
Do you have it on the same computer or multiple?

I dont really want to talk about my new Win7 installation..
Its slow as a.. well.. snail.
But the visual effects are great, like the startup, and the menu button.
It really looks like Vista, just no sign of the Sidebar yet.
Wonder if i actually installed the latest at all.. (It says 7001, is it not the RC?)
I have such a mess on my Elements HDD..

DOS 6 was far superior... nah, i just use Command Prompt for DOS games, they still work...

Anyway, i use Vista HP 32bit and Kubuntu 9.04 64bit.

Hahaha MS-DOS 3.3

I have Windows XP Pro SP3/Windows 7 RC /Ubuntu 9.04

Windows XP for normal computing
Windows 7 for testing
Ubuntu for programming

Vista Ultimate 64-bit, Vista Business 32-bit, and Xubuntu 8.10. I like the OS's that I have though I'd like if the netbook remix supported the original EeePC 900s better.

Are you kidding me? Windows 7 is everything that Vista should have been.

It uses way less in terms of resources. In fact, I've got it connected to a PC with 1GB of ram. Something I couldn't have ever done with Vista.

It uses 10% less resources on my setup with 2gb of RAM.

I am thinking about installing Win7 on another laptop that only has 1gb of RAM, but on my laptop I don't feel there is a need, especially when I have Vista customized completely to my needs and I don't want to go through that again with 7.

You run DOS games through Cmd?

I just remember an old classic.. Midtown Madness 2..
Which i still have right now, though very patched out..
And i found out its a similar thing like Halo Custom Edition:
You can load in new cars and maps!!
I have improved it by using a Shader Mod...
And changing the mtm2.exe to another for faster startup without DOS. (It could take long time for it to start, sometimes never because of no DOS in XP)
And Microsoft has never told about it officially or made tools for it..
But, 10 years after release its like Midtown Madness 3 if you patch it right

Old games WERE BETTER then new ones..

How do you do DOS games via CMD? I want that...

Anyways, I run Windows Vista Home Basic on my laptop, but my family computer runs Windows XP Media Center Edition. Both are pretty good (though the home desktop is getting old, becoming sluggish).

I really want a MacBook Pro... I know OS X > Windows

O_o How is a school running an OS not even released?

I'm on OS X 10.5.7 right now. Love it. I have Windows 7 RC on two desktops, one of which dual boots to Vista and two laptops that run XP. OS X is still the best in my opinion.

~Bcloutier~

A clean install of Ultimate 32-bit.

I have a 2gb RAM laptop running Vista and a 1gb laptop running Win7. Turns out Win7 is terrible with 1gb of RAM.

XP pro sp3.... and belive it or not I have my old 486 still running win3.1 and yes it can get online..... (not very good I might add)

i curently use windows xp proffensional SP3, but im getting linux mint 7.0 today.

Wtf is a 486? (Its a PC named that?)

I wonder why i cant upgrade to SP3..
Im still stuck with SP2
Though i have Media Center Edition 2005..
But thats just an extra program with it and that its designed for media..

And why does many want to run the old stuff like MS-DOS?
Its so ooooold..
(I want to try running MS-DOS 6.0 on my phone )

Windows XP is by far the most stable. I do like Vistas theme but that's not whats important. I've used many version of Linux, and I've used windows 7. My favorite Linux Distro is Ubuntu.