Posted on 10/23/2009 12:42:52 PM PDT by Mr Fuji
Yes, Windows 7 didn't even hit the market until Thursday. But that hasn't stopped a fog of myths from enveloping the newest version of the much loved--and much hated--PC operating system from Microsoft.
[Slide Show: The Best of What's New in Windows 7.]
The software giant hoped that wide exposure to Windows 7 would help smooth its entry. Microsoft let millions of consumers and professionals download test versions of the operating system. And by a wide margin, testers have found the new system to be the best yet from Microsoft. Version 7 is leaner, more useful, and prettier than past editions--a worthy effort to update the Windows world.
Still, the fictions are legion. Much of it is innocent confusion that accompanies any major software release. Some of it arises from Microsoft apologists trying to bury the botched release of Windows Vista, sniping Apple fans who want the Mac to continue gaining market share, or diehard techies who revere free Linux software.
[Why some analysts argue that Linux is better than Windows or the Mac.]
With so much misinformation swirling, we've sorted through seven points that are confusing consumers:
1. It's only a minor update to Vista. Overstated, but there is some truth. With Win7, Microsoft had the luxury of going back to basics. Vista was a massive effort to update the core of Windows. The edition following Vista didn't have to be as ambitious. Programmers could focus on the edges of Vista, reducing its hardware-hog tendencies and annoying security nags. But Microsoft went further, adding consumer-friendly functions to paint Windows 7 as an upgrade. HomeGroups greatly simplify home networking, libraries organize jumbled collections of files, and multifinger power makes touch screens more powerful.
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One for the TECH PING list.
I’ve got Vista on my home computer (purchased in August 2007) and I’ve had zero problems with it.
same here..
That’s a fair article.
I’ve run W7 on my home machine for about a month via a Technet subscription offering(RTM version, the same that came out yesterday). I ran the RC before that.
Today I updated one of my work desktops(the main one) and all is peachy. Quite happy with it.
Vista was a disaster.
I’m installing my programs on my Dell Inspiron B130 laptop after an upgrade to Windows 7 from XP Pro. So far things have been smooth other than a few updates to my CD/DVD ROM drive that I needed to dig around Dell’s website to find.
7 is slick. It loads a little faster than XP and that’s saying something: I run a 1.3MB Celeron processor with 1G DDR RAM. I never used Vista so I really can’t compare the two but so far things are very good.
The sticky notes are great. Menus seem a bit more intuitive, less confusing and I’m looking forward to exploring the Libraries function...after I’m not fuzzed by the flu.
I'm going back to watching cartoons. At least when Bullwinkle says, "Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!" it doesn't cost money when it still doesn't work.
I swear, Windows users are like abused spouses. Microsoft keeps giving them a black eye but the users just keep coming back to them.
The article was anything but convincing.
Even the linked [Slide Show: The Best of What’s New in Windows 7] didn’t have much other than fancier graphics, translucent borders, etc. Yippie. Just what I’ve been salivating for — near-invisible borders. [/s]
OMG, thank your lucky stars you didn't try to run Vista on that! You would have pulled out a gun and shot it! XP and W7 seem to me to run equivalently on similar hardware, something that Vista could never do.
Same here
I'm a happy camper, except for Vista being such a resource hog. I have 4 gigs of RAM, and when I run it as a virtual machine under Snow Leopard, I have horrible performance on any other large-memory task running on the Mac side. (Chip simulations, or complex & large Photoshop files.)
So,
And Apple users (or whatever you use) are what, Knitebane?
Funny, but I’ve yet to have a problem with Windows (running XP on my work laptop and Vista at home) - this goes back to the days when I was in College too (early versions of Windows).
Don't worry. God has a special plan in place for those less fortunate.
LOL
Come here, let me dot your eye for you....
Let me guess, you drive a Ford too?
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I love that BSOD ,, the TSOD with Vista just didn't seem right.. To be fair I haven't had a TSOD in a while but despite all the fixes Vista still won't let me modify files and things due to security bugs (yes, all my settings are "correct").
Backward compatible for x32 peripherals?
Vista is Fxxx’d. I am running Virtual Machine so I don’t have to buy a new laser printer and I prefer classic features of XP.
I don't currently own an Apple. The closest thing I have to it is an ancient Sun IPX. It has the same Motorola 68030 chip that a lot of early Macs (and a lot of Cisco routers) had, but it has Solaris 2.51 on it. And it's retired and in the attic.
Currently I'm running a mix of Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat, FreeBSD and OpenBSD, depending on what the machine needs to do.
I banished Windows from my network a long time ago. I've not missed it.
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