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I would like to know what is better to instal windows 7 or XP?

I would like to know what is better to instal windows 7 or XP?

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Posted on Mar 3, 2012 3:45 PM

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Posted on Mar 3, 2012 3:50 PM

Install where? In it's own partition using Boot Camp or in a Virtual Machine on top of OS X?


You can only install Win 7 in a Boot Camp partition.

You can install any version of Windows in a Virtual Machine software program. I suggest XP for installing into a Virtual Machine as it uses less resources and all current programs still run on it.

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Mar 3, 2012 3:50 PM in response to da86

Install where? In it's own partition using Boot Camp or in a Virtual Machine on top of OS X?


You can only install Win 7 in a Boot Camp partition.

You can install any version of Windows in a Virtual Machine software program. I suggest XP for installing into a Virtual Machine as it uses less resources and all current programs still run on it.

Mar 3, 2012 3:52 PM in response to da86

XP is old, and will soon be not even recognized by MS. Install requires possibly days of downloading security patches.


Lion does not load XP into BootCamp, but can load XP into a VM such as VM Fusion or Parallels or VirtualBox.



7 is new enough to be still supported for a few years. 7 installs with far fewer "security patches" than XP.


Lion will load 7.


And Windows 7 Pro has an XP mode.

Mar 3, 2012 3:59 PM in response to steve359

steve359 wrote:


XP is old,

You know you are right but it still has the largest install base and it still runs all software currently available.


And it take one quarter the space of 7 and uses less then have of the resources. Kind of like SL to Lion.


Yes XP is at the end of support from MS, 2014 I think. That would be 14 years of support. It still is one good operating system.


7 will be supported until 2020+

Mar 3, 2012 4:04 PM in response to da86

da86 wrote:


thank, but i didnt understand clearly. i have a MAC OS X.. i bought a DC to instal windows and now it's ask me to choos what kind of windows i want ...



Do as S2W suggests and look at About This Mac and get us the version of OS X you are running.


Sorry I don't know what DC means. If you mean a Disc? A DVD disc? Where did you buy it?


As it sounds like you bought something from eBay that is a Universal Install DVD and they are not ligitimate, legal, Microsoft discs. As MS does not sell Universal install DVDs in the retail marketplace.

Mar 3, 2012 4:05 PM in response to Shootist007

I did not say XP is useless, just old.


My work project requires certain compatibilities. One of those is "IE 7". So we are no supposed to re-image the PCs with 7, even though corporate-wide is moving towards re-image with 7.


But when my XP install failed, the local PC admin said that re-intstalling XP would be days of patching, while 7 was a single-image-install with few patches.


Pick your poison, I guess.

Mar 3, 2012 4:09 PM in response to steve359

steve359 wrote:


I did not say XP is useless, just old.


My work project requires certain compatibilities. One of those is "IE 7". So we are no supposed to re-image the PCs with 7, even though corporate-wide is moving towards re-image with 7.


But when my XP install failed, the local PC admin said that re-intstalling XP would be days of patching, while 7 was a single-image-install with few patches.


Pick your poison, I guess.

Well not to get off topic but your company needs a new IT guy. You can slipstream all the updates into an install image and for that matter you can take one PC, updates it, create an image from it and use a universal install feature to image any PC with that updated image.


Now back on topic.

I would like to know what is better to instal windows 7 or XP?

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