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- whatthefu, on 10/26/2009, -3/+457How long do you think tech writers were waiting for the next version of Windows to come out solely so they could say "Hasta la Vista"?
- Humptydank, on 10/26/2009, -17/+296Tell your Grandma that she really should be switching to Linux. All she has to do is open a command window and type
/usr/local/sltr_1.3_01.7.2_b -c 52 -g kldk -a 0 -bkg #45DD49
If she wants animated card backs just set the -a switch to 1, and to set the background to another color besides green just have her put whatever color she likes after the -bkg switch in hex rgb.
Have fun! - dineth, on 10/26/2009, -5/+271As always, ars puts out the best OS review. Well done guys!!
- 2012ronpaul, on 10/26/2009, -6/+171My Grandma wanted me to find out if Solitaire was any better on Windows 7.
- Frazzlet, on 10/26/2009, -8/+166Windows 7 is good.
/review - rmacnguyen, on 10/26/2009, -1/+145FTA: "Notepad, by the way, remains crap."
I wouldn't have it any other way. - AndrewDB, on 10/26/2009, -9/+138I'd recommend reading the whole ~ ! ~ 15 pages ~ ! ~ because it's worth it but for those of you on time constraints here's the sum up and the last line in the article:
"Windows 7 is, overall, a fantastic OS. It builds on a solid platform, and just makes it even better." - KMartSheriff, on 10/26/2009, -3/+123I was actually kind of sad to see it was only 15 pages long. The Snow Leopard review was like 20-something.
Ars is the best tech news/review site, bar none. They make ***** like Gizmodo look like childs play. - ranold, on 10/26/2009, -7/+120Using Windows 7 64-bit.
/love it. - nepidae, on 10/26/2009, -0/+89Uh, notepad is notepad. I'm glad there is still something I can use to copy/paste/write plain text.
- ultraseamus, on 10/26/2009, -5/+92@enantiodromia: The original comment was of course an exaggeration, and I am sure not meant to be taken seriously. But, as someone who has been using and developing software for computers his whole life, I recently put a version of Linux on one of my computers. Preforming basic tasks is simple enough, but when I needed to preform a mildly more complex task I had a lot of trouble (can't remember for sure, might have been installing a particular program). My Linux friend who talked me into trying it in the first place blamed it on that one distro. But, I can say that from what I saw, Linux has a long way to go before any of the non-computer people I know will be able to use it.
All this talk about it replacing windows is extremely premature, and laughable IMO. The community needs more of a unified front. Using windows there is no reason for 99.99% of the public to ever see the command prompt, and that is the way it needs to be for them. - ZManNate, on 10/26/2009, -3/+73I'm still waiting on Windows RG. http://www.deanliou.com/WinRG/WinRG2.htm
It'll never live up to the hype. - Leezus, on 10/26/2009, -4/+69What is this!? 15 well written, insightful pages are nice and all, but my attention span demands arbitrary numbers!
- inactive, on 10/26/2009, -4/+67The last paragraph - page 15:
Overall, it's pretty clear that Windows 7 is "Vista R2." Hell, the branding of the server counterpart is a dead giveaway here. Windows Server 2008 RTM was exactly Vista SP1; Windows Server 2008 R2 is exactly Windows 7. Why does one retain its branding but not the other? Because the Windows Server 2008 branding is popular and successful (the OS was, quite rightly, very well-received) in a way that the Vista branding is not. If Vista had gotten the reception it actually deserved, and become a brand worth keeping, it seems highly likely that the name would have been retained. And Microsoft knows it, which is why internally, Windows 7 is only version 6.1. Sure, the company has made specious claims that this is to avoid breaking applications with bad version checks, but the logic doesn't really hold; many of those applications are just as broken by "6" as they would be by "7," and if that were such a concern then the minor version wouldn't change either.
But at the end of the day, that doesn't really matter. Windows 7 is, overall, a fantastic OS. It builds on a solid platform, and just makes it even better. - epohs, on 10/26/2009, -1/+50And yet I feel as though within a terse 15 pages Ars has written a pretty solid review.
- darkism, on 10/26/2009, -5/+53I'm surprised they didn't put a ribbon in it for no reason.
- enantiodromia, on 10/26/2009, -7/+52 Running Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro. Guess that makes me a Double Fanboy.
- 4321234, on 10/26/2009, -0/+44How was comment formed?
- supporter12, on 10/26/2009, -4/+42The review covers so many things but the native DivX support just caught me, sweeet.
- jaxparrow, on 10/26/2009, -1/+38I thought Gizmodo was child's play...
- jcavaliere, on 10/26/2009, -0/+36No kidding. Get Notepad++ if you want something other than an ASCII editor eh?
- TVarmy, on 10/26/2009, -1/+37Proof that Linux users can't take a joke.
- ultraseamus, on 10/26/2009, -3/+35@enantiodromia: That is exactly the mentality that developers keep. And it is the reason why Linux is no where close to begin on the right track to be seriously considered as a Windows competitor. They keep looking at it as "we have no reason to make this work more like windows, if people are going to switch, they just have to deal with a learning curve". I am no computer wiz, but I do have more computer knowledge than the majority of the population. If I think it is too much of a hassle to have to go through step by step tutorials that involve command line arguments, just to install a basic program, the rest of the population will think doubly so.
Any developer I mention this to says they do not care about that, "they should not have to pander to people unwilling to learn a new system". People who would rather double click instead of type in a series of commands. But, these are the same developers who at other times complain about how vicious, untrue rumors of complexity are holding Linux back. The obbession with hating Windows, and therefore wanting to be differnet from Windows is what holds Linux back. Ironically, helping Windows keep its market share. - robwhite1979, on 10/26/2009, -7/+38I'm gonna get buried, but 7 is a pleasure to use compared to XP/OS X. I've had it for months and have zero reasons to even consider using a different OS until support for this one runs out or my hardware becomes so obsolete I need to purchase a new PC (and even then, unless MS has a new OS out there that gets installed by the OEM I'd still be using 7)...
- JoeHague, on 10/26/2009, -5/+35I think it means you have too much money. Send me an e-mail and I'll take some of that extra cash off your hands as a gesture of kindness.
- TheBlargh, on 10/26/2009, -4/+34we have all seen the crappy mac commercial, douche bag.
- Alabaster1234, on 10/26/2009, -7/+33The section about explorer vs internet explorer is ridiculously nitpicky. Measuring pixel sizes on text boxes and distance between buttons and getting annoyed over 2px or less difference is stupidly pedantic.
- bduddy, on 10/26/2009, -0/+25Isn't that the point?
- mmittimm, on 10/26/2009, -0/+24Why?
- miquonranger031, on 10/26/2009, -0/+23"Why doesn't this blank sheet of paper let me select a font? The keyboard support is crap!"
- inactive, on 10/26/2009, -0/+22You are actually complaining on the amount of pages in the review.
- RedBear, on 10/26/2009, -1/+23Since the release of Vista ;)
- KMartSheriff, on 10/26/2009, -11/+32I must be in the minority because I love the ribbon UI.
- nigelsan, on 10/26/2009, -0/+21ninjas get training right through foreign agents.
- consoneo, on 10/26/2009, -0/+21It makes it easier for a person to read without getting overwhelmed subconsciously.
Putting an article on a huge scrolling page is daunting. Doing it like this splits it up and gives the mind a break. It really works better for readability and transition. - Elranzer, on 10/26/2009, -1/+22Since Longhorn was renamed to Vista.
- HonoredMule, on 10/26/2009, -1/+20Gizmodo IS child's play--the emotional response to all things 'cool'.
Ars is technology journalism--applying industry-relevant skills to produce real investigative analysis. - askantik, on 10/26/2009, -4/+23It got a bad name because people didn't know how to turn off UAC and they expected Vista to run well on antiquated XP hardware. With a decent PC and disabled UAC, I haven't had any problems with Vista, other than Linksys. ***** their driver support-- even for products STILL on the market (i.e., not old hardware). But that ain't Vista's fault.
- jaxparrow, on 10/26/2009, -0/+19I hate 10+ page slideshows, articles, etc. but I'll make an exception for this. There is actually a good amount of content on each page. Keep up the good work, Ars!
- theghostofme, on 10/27/2009, -1/+20@enantiodromia
WinKey + R
cmd
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Solitaire\Solitaire.exe"
Goddamn you Microsoft for making it so damn hard for me to launch Solitaire from the command line.
Learn to take a joke. - nurbsenvi, on 10/26/2009, -6/+25I'm gonna wait for another 3 months to see if all the software I use to work works flawlessly on 7.
- madwh, on 10/26/2009, -6/+25"Once up and running, after briefly admiring the new startup logo, you're presented with probably the ugliest default wallpaper of any current OS; even the fecal brown of Ubuntu is more aesthetically pleasing"
ROFL, who is this guy that wrote the review? - JohnGalt750, on 10/26/2009, -9/+27Vista is a great OS and the smoothest rollout of a new NT kernel that has ever occurred. The only reason it got a bad name is because of who the early adopters were.
- knaps, on 10/26/2009, -1/+18Since Vista RC1.
- peters1023, on 10/26/2009, -1/+18Am I really the only one who has had no problems with Vista?
Been running 64 bit Vista ever since SP1. I don't have ANY problems. I will probably upgrade to 7 just because I can, but seriously I've liked Vista as an OS, granted I have the hardware to run it, but that was only outdated users complaining about that anyway (how does anyone take these people seriously????). And yes I use the hell out of it, but I'm not going to bore anyone with stats or the ***** I can do on my workstation, or home network (N), or media server, or 360, or ..... - evanstapler, on 10/26/2009, -2/+19This is a joke, right?
- Rockkybox, on 10/26/2009, -0/+17plus vista's better than vista
- catalysis, on 10/26/2009, -2/+19Windows 98 can complete some tasks faster than XP, but it's still an obsolete OS,
- askantik, on 10/26/2009, -1/+17PWoT, I've turned off UAC and it never reminds me. Wanna know how I did it? I Googled "turn off UAC Vista." It's hard, I know, but somehow I managed. -_-
andrejhoward, I hope you aren't offended by my use of ain't. My girlfriend of over 4 years has an English degree and I'm well aware that it's not correct English-- I use it for its effect. - tnoy, on 10/26/2009, -0/+15READING IS HARD
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