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- jebaird, on 01/06/2009, -17/+211I'm really curious to see how windows 7 will turn out. Microsoft cant afford another Vista when they are competing with apple and Linux who have been gaining a lot market share in the past few years.
- fcrow, on 01/06/2009, -20/+203I'm skipping Vista for this one.
- JoelJ, on 01/06/2009, -11/+125I'm really excited. Windows 7 is a beauty. Runs great (better than XP and Vista according to some sources). I can hardly wait.
- oriondr, on 01/06/2009, -36/+144They also can't avoid "another" vista, since anything they do, no matter how good it is, is instantly labeled as such by Mac/linux fanboys.
Not that Vista is even bad, most people who diss it have never even used it. - archer75, on 01/06/2009, -7/+101Let me tell you what the issue with Vista was. It's not Vista. It's drivers. The core technology changed. Microsoft laid a new framework for going forward. Most people say that Vista is XP with a new GUI but that couldn't be further from the truth. There are vast changes under the hood of vista. Changes that were long overdue.
As such a bunch of software needed to updated and developers were slow with this. XP was out for so long and so many software and hardware companies were formed during XP's reign and that's what they learned on. So for the first time for many companies they had to write drivers for a new OS. It took time to get quality drivers. And with each driver release vista got better and better.
Windows 7 will be better out of the box because it uses the same driver model as Vista. The same drivers work. And they've had a couple of years to mature and still have time until 7 is launched. All software that was written and updated for Vista works on 7.
Windows 7 did not introduce any major changes to the underlying system. It's still Vista but it's been optimized, tweaked, improved, etc. It's alot of polish. And it's pretty damn good so far.
So it's not necesseraly that microsoft has improved here it's that people don't understand the changes that vista brought, that they were necessary. Windows 7 is Vista with some polish and more time for drivers and software to mature. And it's a good thing. - AncientWeird, on 01/06/2009, -4/+98damn reddit
/O.o - geoken, on 01/06/2009, -13/+104Dear The Internet,
Please stop talking out of your ass and saying ***** that you think other people will agree with because your ego is closely tied to how much you think people like you. - enotswhat, on 01/06/2009, -5/+94damn redtube
- fakeguy, on 01/06/2009, -10/+93Been using this for about a day and I like it but it crashed :( two times. Once while on youtube and on another, uh site.
- fakeguy, on 01/07/2009, -1/+79Four things:
1. How dare you all suggest that I go to porn sites, what nerve.
2. Damn you all for being right.
3. Whoever said pornhub is the winner.
4. Thank you all for the other names of uh...sites. - PullingTeeth, on 01/06/2009, -5/+81WTF? People use OSs different than mine? That means they must be bad!
- IphtashuFitz, on 01/06/2009, -4/+79"it's not exactly been embraced with open arms, particularly by big business, which is Microsoft's bread and butter. As I've written, this has more to do with perception than reality -- on a modern machine with decent hardware, Vista's a pretty nice OS."
A lot of people still just don't get it. Those big businesses don't want to have to pay every couple of years to upgrade systems, migrate users, etc. Especially in this day and age where the economy is so bad, everybody from individual contractors up to the IBM's and Boeings and H&R Blocks, etc. are trying to save money. Retiring perfectly functional PC's just because they can't run the absolute latest OS from Microsoft (or anywhere else) isn't a justifiable expense for many. Not to mention the additional cost of retraining hundreds or thousands of employees used to Windows 2000 or XP to now use Vista or 7.0.
Microsoft really needs a proverbial "grand slam" with 7.0 to convince all these companies to loosen their purse strings and invest in the new hardware & other related costs to migrate to 7.0. It'll be interesting to see if it happens or not. - Premier, on 01/06/2009, -5/+68please stop using the term 'homebrew' pc, it's not cool, no matter what you may think
- Culero, on 01/06/2009, -2/+59nice, daddy's got a new collection of websites to visit.
- detroitplaya, on 01/06/2009, -4/+59damn spankwire
- suprxtragrav, on 01/06/2009, -4/+56damn porntube
- SpectralSounds, on 01/06/2009, -3/+54damn maxporn
- icexe, on 01/06/2009, -7/+48It's important in a discussion about WINDOWS.
But since you are obviously starving for some attention, then:
THANK YOU TehJoe, WE ARE ALL NOW WELL AWARE OF HOW ***** UBER-1337 YOU ARE BECAUSE YOU ARE RUNNING LINUX!!!
Happy now? Good, now kindly go back to your whatever masturbatory endeavor you were previously engaged in. - oriondr, on 01/06/2009, -6/+40Last time I checked, windows is still the dominant OS by a fairly wide margin, especially in the consumer and business markets.
You live in a dream world. - AshsToAshs, on 01/06/2009, -5/+38Ive been using Windows 7 for the past week or so as my primary OS.
-Runs faster than Vista (which i had been using for a year previously and was happy with). It does just feel "zippier". And starts up, and shuts down, faster than Vista.
-It detected ALL of my drivers, and downloaded the newest Nvidia drivers for the 8800GT. That impressed me very much.
-The new toolbar is cute, but i couldnt get used to not having a proper quicklaunch bar. But thankfully it was easy enough to re-enable a standard quicklaunch.
-I like how you can now choose which icons to show and which to hide in the System Icon area (the icons by the clock). You can tell an icon to always show, always hide, or only show if it has a notification. Very nice.
-The new WMP is sexy as hell. Better than Media Player Classic, imo. Its very minimalistic.
-I was sad to see that the cool right-click boxes that MS programs get on the toolbar dont work for other 3rd party programs. For example if you right-click on IE in the toolbar you get a list of recently viewed pages, where as if you right-click on Firefox you only get "close window". I hope this is something that 3rd party devs will be able to add functionality for on there own for there software.
-The new gadgets and sidebar is great. Its not a feature thats turned on when you first install Windows 7, which is great for people that were annoyed with gadgets and the sidebar in Vista. Also, the sidebar is disabled by default now, so you can add Gadgets anywhere you want. And, unlike vista, when you add a gadget without the sidebar it doesnt get super huge, you place the gadget anywhere and then choose if it should be its larger or small version. - aurrea, on 01/06/2009, -10/+43I was not very happy with Vista and returned to XP after about a week. I installed the recent beta release of this OS and I have to say I am impressed.. (so far). It's been about a week and is very stable and most importantly very fast and efficient on resources.
Only time will tell though.... - JonnyCasino, on 01/06/2009, -4/+36I agree with you with regards to some trivial assumptions of Vista. I am now on Vista Ultimate at work and at home, and for my professional use as a web developer and designer it performs well at work. And at home, it's just quite a treat. The only complain i have is file copy/delete can be slow imo, though it's not a threat to my health atm.
- cawpin, on 01/06/2009, -13/+41First of all, XP does NOT have mostly the same features. Second, I put Vista on my main machine when it was a P4 3.0GHz with 1GB ram and it ran faster than XP.
- drgmdp, on 01/06/2009, -6/+32because most people don't use linux
- inactive, on 01/06/2009, -2/+28win
- trispear, on 01/06/2009, -1/+27Thank you for your voice of reason.
I swear, people protect their OS of choice as if they wrote it all from scratch themselves (not even Torvalds takes a religious view on his OS. I can somewhat understand fanaticism in the Linux folks from a financial and philosophical POV -- but why would anyone want to fluff Microsoft's or Apple's ego all the time? It's not as if those companies give a ***** about you.
Use whatever you want and don't hassle others too much. - JoelJ, on 01/06/2009, -3/+28http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2009 ...
- KevenM, on 01/06/2009, -0/+25damn pornhub
- TheVirus, on 01/06/2009, -2/+26damn youporn
- ShingoEX, on 01/06/2009, -14/+37People still whine over Vista?
It took all of 1 day to tweak this PC w/Vista to run like butter off a hotcake. *****' noobs... - SeraphOfAsgard, on 01/06/2009, -6/+29I didn't sign. Before you speak up for the rest of us why don't you ask for our permission.
Signed,
Someone From The Internet - benologist, on 01/06/2009, -9/+31Apple's the one gaining marketshare. Linux is only gaining marketshare if you look at netbooks and that's not *taking* marketshare from anyone it's a whole new market..... which Microsoft almost immediately got a nice chunk of. So that leaves Microsoft threatened by Apple - a platform they sell software on, and hardware that runs their software.
Financially Vista was a huge success and in every other aspect as well except for the vocal minority of blogs that discovered there's money to be made telling Digg users Microsoft is teh sux. Sure a lot of companies skipped it, but these "journalists" neglect to mention is no company upgrades every time a software vendor pushes out a new version.... it's normal to skip generations to the point where there are still businesses running Windows 9x. - diggafrica, on 01/06/2009, -8/+28Ok. Install steam, Lets go play counter strike source or Cod 4.
ps: how many years do I have to wait in the server for you ? - coheedcollapse, on 01/06/2009, -8/+28Have we found out how much this will cost Vista users to upgrade to? I'm really hoping that it's not the regular price, because, while I'm completely happy with Vista, Windows 7 seems to be almost the same thing with a few more extra things to mess around with and bug fixes.
If an upgrade is regular price, I'm sticking with Vista. Hopefully it's like $50 though. Fat chance, I know. - mazurkfsflip8, on 01/06/2009, -3/+22keywords: running... in... vmplayer
- scratend0788, on 01/06/2009, -2/+21that it can run normal software.
that it is probably going to be the standart in buisnes/personal computing for at least 5 years.
oh, it will probably be ok with my sound card aswell - Memnochxx, on 01/06/2009, -6/+24Oh yeah, and how often does mac os and you favorite linux flavor get updated? :p
- wang1011, on 01/06/2009, -0/+18damn xtube
- mrkmrk, on 01/06/2009, -2/+20I'm running 7 right now, and it's faster than XP while being more functional than Vista (and I *did* like Vista, mind you). You've got nothing to worry about.
- Planets, on 01/06/2009, -4/+21I can do everything Linux can and more on Windows. Exactly why is Linux important again?
- cyrusuncc, on 01/06/2009, -37/+54Am I the only one who doesn't care about new Microsoft operating systems? I'm happy with my clunker running XP
- scratend0788, on 01/06/2009, -7/+24well if my options are to turn into an arogant pretecious ***** or an uber geek i think id rather stick with windows.
- smthop3, on 01/06/2009, -3/+19@someguy
Guess what? Most people don't use linux still. - gumballer, on 01/06/2009, -0/+15damn tube8
- Izzmo, on 01/06/2009, -3/+18Man, you are right. People just don't get it.
- fjsferreira, on 01/06/2009, -8/+23I've been running 7 for one week now, and I can honestly say that:
It's gonna rock! - asskey, on 01/06/2009, -3/+18I don't think it's their strategy...they just do it a lot.
- oriondr, on 01/06/2009, -12/+27If it runs too slowly, thats a hint to get a new computer. XP has been around since 2001, of course it runs fast on most machines from 2002-2009.
- offrdbandit, on 01/06/2009, -3/+17Virus free, eh?
Six years on XP, and 2 months on Vista (got it free - decided to try it) and I've not had any viruses, trojans, etc.
Your problems sound like user error to me... - geoken, on 01/06/2009, -5/+19Can you point out which panel applet facilitates this?
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