Quote Originally Posted by Ynot View Post
Judging by the pricing and upgrade decisions made by MS, and the absolutely huge surge of interest for Ubuntu, I'm guessing Win7 will have a tough time

There's no upgrade path from XP to 7
you have to buy a full priced copy of 7, and do a clean install
At the peak (trough?) of the recession, this seems bonkers, and I think the sheer cost is the driving force behind the interest in Linux

I must have seen half-a-dozen mainstream news sources comparing Win7 with Ubuntu in the last few days

Examples
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...indows7-review
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ts-user-nerve/

I don't think 7 will flop as hard as vista, but it certainly won't gain much traction either, if these early signs of discontent continue
I exported my settings and some document files from XP via the user migration program, and win7 got the stuff... I had to fix some things but it's smoothly working.

Had problems running old dvd programs like k-probe etc.

Never really used Vista so I can't compare.