Windows 98 requires 64 MB RAM and no more than 500 MB HDD
Windows XP requires more than 256 MB RAM and at least 2 GB HDD
WIndows Vista requires 512 DDRAM and 10 and more GB HDD
Windows 7 requires at least 2 GB DDRAM and over 200 GB HDD
I expect that Windows 8 will require 4 GB of fastest RAM and a minimum 50 GB HDD to work. But the actual things that Windows 98 and Windows 8 can do… almost the same 
windows 7 is awesome !! I guess windows 8 rocks !! … waiting for its waiting for it !!!
In fact I let Windoze only run in boxes. Well surrounded by tall walls, lol. 
That way it doesn’t matter if it kills itself from time to time or asking for more resources. I can just kill it with a click and then restart with a click and just for the metatrader. All serious applications run in a Windoze free environment with quad light speed. 
Windoze 7 is SLOOOOOW and Windoze 8 becomes even SLOOOOOOOWER, lol. So you must buy new hardware as well. The most expensive. Awesome indeed. 
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I think, i ll stay under w7 x64
i find it enough fast ( on i7 with SSD and 3 big screens ) and without error blue screen …
Of course Microsoft will end its support cycle for XP soon … in 2014, to be precise.
Windows XP End Of Support Countdown (Gadget)
That’s normal procedure … and who still needs XP support anyway? It’s an outdated OS.
O.
‘Outdated’ my a*se!!! LOL!!! You may or may not know this (because we’re ‘new friends’) but I used to have my own IT Business for about 16-years or so and have kept in contact with a few of my clients (mainly those that I never had to ‘beg’ or ‘threaten’ for payment for services rendered i.e. that always contributes to a healthy relationship) since ‘closing up shop’ to trade for a liviing (funny: I had money back then too come to think of it)??? Anyway and moving on: you won’t believe the number of times I’ve been asked to UNINSTALL Vista and Windows 7 and install Windows XP for them!!! I’ve seen ‘the fanciest’ of notebooks and workstations performing like ‘drunken snails’ with Vista and Windows 7 but the moment XP has been installed then the same notebooks and workstations ‘perform like rockets’. I can only imagine Windows 8 ain’t going to be an exeption to this rule.
For what it’s worth (and take it from an ‘old IT guy’): ‘buy what does the job well enough and for your purposes’. Don’t let any new ‘kid on the block’ try to tell you that you NEED all of the new features of whatever the latest ‘co*k up’ Microsoft OS has just released!!! Most people will use those new features once, maybe twice, and after that, all they land up with is a ‘dog’ for a PC!!! LOL!!!
One other thing experience has taught me (but admittedly facilitated my making quite a bit of $$$ in support fees): never install or upgrade to a new Microsoft OS until at LEAST Service Pack TWENTY SEVEN for that OS has been released (at least not on your own PC’s anyway)!!! LOL!!!
Regards,
Dale.
That’s funny!!! The irony??? That’s the exact same ‘business model’ that ‘bucketshops’ operate on!!! ROFLMAO!!!
Regards,
Dale.
Hehe, agreed, Vista sucks big-time … I’ve never used it, mainly due to the only-kids-can-love-it colourful appearance; later on, when reading reviews, that decision proved to be correct.
Well, I don’t know what a ‘fancy machine’ is for you, but I surely found Win7 to be far superior to XP, on every machine I use it on (Office Network with 14 PCs and 6 Notebooks, Home Network with 2 PCs and 1 Notebook) . I ‘jumped’ from XP to Win7, without ever having used Vista, and I’m quite happy with it.
Yep, agreed … maybe not SP27, but definitely SP1 … I’ve switched from XP to Win7 just after SP1 had been released.
From the way that video looks, I’ll probably skip Win8, too, and ‘jump’ from Win7 to Win9 or Win10, or however MS will call it.
O.
Hello.
By ‘fancy machine’ I just mean something new, ‘off the shelf’, with whatever the latest and greatest Microsoft OS has been pre-installed (and even THAT is normally done in a very ‘half hearted’ fashion which COULD be part of the problem).
In my case though: I’m talking about PCs that were ‘top of the range’ at LEAST six or seven years ago. Alright: they’ve got loads of RAM and are overclocked and had the odd card replaced but I’ve looked after them (servicing them every so often etc.). They’re powerful enough for PROPER PROFESSIONAL video editing (used to be another rather expensive hobby of mine) so they’re an overkill for any trading platform. But there again the point is: go and buy me a PC TODAY that will all but outlast it’s guarantee period let alone still be functional is six or seven years??? Ain’t gonna happen!!! LOL!!!
Who am I kidding!!! I’m just getting old I guess!!! LOL!!! I never thought I’d see the day when I saw OTHER people’s children and said the them ‘gee: the last time I saw you you were in nappies (diapers)’!!! When I was young: I couldn’t fathom how ‘grown ups’ ever got to that stage in life. Now I know. And if PIS*ES ME OFF!!! LOL!!!
Regards,
Dale.
I don’t care what Bill or Steve do. Win had it’s prime time til WfW 3.11 on my gadgets, because there was simply no serious competition right after the “quick and dirty os”. Then I went with Warp 3.0 and after that with Linux. Just to watch what issues companies had with upgrading their new virus OS to the next version and particular their office app becoming more ugly to handle and with more bugs than before and even more lockups for their old customers. Since Warp (that’s OS/2 for the new bees) I had not 1 virus or worm, a stable system and since Linux even old gadgets woke up to new life. An old pc became a firewall or a simple router for instance.
I bought a netbook two years or so ago with a new win7 which was as always nice to look at but with slow motion mode. After kicking that to the lost bits and bytes and putting a real OS on it, wow: Runs like a Ferrari and I can even use XP on it with my vbox which is lightning fast compared to win7 alone on it.
Even worse the office apps from them. Always new menu schemes (where is that header/footer item this year built in?), new file formats, etc. Since I used Staroffice (now libre office) I had not one single issue and I can still use all of my files from 15 years ago without converting, buying this and that. Just open file, a click and I have it all.
With my quadcore now and Linux on it I have ALWAYS a cpu load of less than 10%, whatever I do. Watching a movie, having 2 vboxes open with xp and mt4 in it, a browser, some other apps, etc.
Only thing I miss is the bsod, but there is a screensaver app for it, lol.
Well this ‘takes the cake’ and odd that it happened after this discussion started!!!
For the most part: I try, every month, to download and install all of the Microsoft Windows XP Pro Updates and Patches. But I’ve been a bit ‘slack’ over the past two or so months. So I figured that today, being a ‘new start (new year)’ and nothing important to do, I’d do a bit of ‘housekeeping’, get all my stuff up to date, and tomorrow ‘come out fighting’. I have Automatic Updates turned off (I don’t like things happening ‘behind my back’ so I do these updates manually). So today and to this end I decided to update my PCs. A FEW MBs ‘SHY’ of 800MB in Patches and Updates!!! After TWO MONTHS (which is the last time I checked for Patches and Updates). Only a few months ago (I do this ‘as a matter of course’ annually) I did a ‘clean install’ of XP PRO SP3 and even after THAT initial installation there was about 600MB of Updates and Patches not to mention the monthly Updates and Patches done since then (until, as I say, two months r so ago). Alright: I have Office installed, as well as MS Visual Studio (well only C#), and all of the different .NET Frameworks. But STILL!!! ‘Off the cuff’ I’d say that even AFTER a ‘clean install’ of XP PRO SP3 there is about at least 1.2GB of Patches and Updates to be downloaded and installed!!! Windows 8 doesn’t by any chance come out on a DVD and not on a CD by any chance??? LOL!!! GOOD LUCK WITH THAT is all I can say!!! LOL!!!
Regards,
Dale.