Posted on 02/19/2009 1:30:25 PM PST by Chet 99
Remember when Vista was announced, and Microsoft decided to release six different versions of the operating system, much to the confusion, disappointment, and ridicule of potential buyers? Well guess what? Microsoft is back with the Windows 7 strategy. What has it learned in the last three years? Pretty much nothing.
While Microsoft is touting the "two primary editions" of Windows 7 -- a Home Premium edition and a Professional (intended for business) edition -- the fact is it's sticking with the same six different versions (or SKUs, stock-keeping units) that it had for Vista.
The real difference is that Windows 7 Home Basic -- the much-reviled stripped-down version of Vista that was designed for bare-bones PCs -- is now being shunted to emerging markets only, though it will still exist. But to confuse matters, a Windows 7 Starter edition, which will run only three applications simultaneously, will also be available.
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Macs are for girls.
>I’m running Windows 7 and find it to be much faster than Vista.
Windows98 is faster than vista... more usable too.
Only three...?? WTF...??
People would rather get a used Notebook from Apple.
What is Ballmer's strategy....? Trying to figure out how quick he can downgrade Microsoft's stock and pi** off investors....?
That’s gonna be a surprise for Rush.
DOES IT RUN WITH 64 BITS?
Vista was slow as molasses Win98 was fast and XP pro was also great. Linux will take over eventually, we’ll see how it goes. After Obama gets done with us, we won’t be able to afford electricity to run our computers. We don’t want to offend anyone who can’t afford a computer.
Lean and fast? It’ll hardly run with 512MB of RAM. That’s insane!
I’m sticking with XP for now. If I upgrade, it’ll be to Linux, as soon as I can find a VPN client that works there.
It is when Windows can't recover from a serious error; windows freezes and a blue screen shows up, requiring you to reboot and hopefully it doesn't happen again. I would consider it an application as it wouldn't be fun to work with windows without it. I have seen it in every version of Windows since Win 95. It is like a long time friend.
I have a new computer Vista 64B with SP1. So far I haven’t had nay trouble (knock on wood). i talked with some one at work before I bought it. A lot other who had Vista had the “older” version and said it was awlful, but the guy who 64B-Sp1 said it was okay.
a used laptop thats not planned to be obsolete like that new one
“Meanwhile, two friends are using windows 7 beta and say it is apparent that MS is listening to the linux users”
I am now running Windows 7 to play around on. It does appear leaner but since I won’t risk important programs on that computer, I can’t really say that I would go out and buy it.
BTW when I tried to load the beta version the first problem I had was the system didn’t recognize my wireless card. I had to get on the net with my hardwired NIC(which it recognized) and do a lot of research. After three fruitless days I gave up but when I went to put my laptop away I unplugged the RJ45 and suddenly Windows 7 announced that it had found my wireless card.
Are there drivers for Ubuntu for USB wireless internet adapters? I tried several versions of linux and never got the Netgear USB wireless adapter to work in any version from Mint; SLAX; DSL; Puppylinux; PClinuxOS and Xubuntu
I have been running Win 7 on 3 computers, since the public release. Works like a charm and I have yet to have a fatal error or BSOD.
Brilliant.
I liked Win 98SE but it’s lack of native support for USB flash drives and FAT32 only file systems makes it only a novelty for me now.
maybe they should just re-release XP
All the various distributions use the same kernel drivers. The problem I believe was MS allowed the card makers to use their driver development kit code with mods for their cards and wouldn't allow it to be used on other platforms. Furthermore, Intel wouldn't allow their hardware specs out in the wild. But the situation is much improved now.
With me it's all about cost. You will have much better luck sticking with one of the bigger distributions than the others. They major distributions just have more resources to play with, and more punch getting the kernel groups attention.
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