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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Depends. If you like it, and your hardware can afford the performance hit, no biggie.If you do nothing besides internet browsing, you may never notice Norton's influence.
I've made a good deal of money cleaning up people's machines, and I've seen 2 ghz processor machines running a gig of ram under XP totally sucking wind, trying to run Norton. Literally, a button click would take 30 or more seconds before anything happened. AFter removing Norton, the thing would fly. AFter removing norton and doing a disk cleanup/defrag, this machine was like new. I personally view Norton and Mcafee as two viruses that are intentionally purchased.
What program do you like better than Norton or Mcafee? What do you think of AVG 8 (free). I did like avg 7.5 (free) but did not like it after the update.
Yeah, iTunes is a jerk like that. I love using sites like Limewire, I just don’t admit to it much so I don’t get called ‘thief’ etc.
I used to use an itunes converter program called jhymn that would convert everything to mp3, but it doesn’t work anymore.
Currently I’m using nothing at all. I used AVG for a while, switched to Avast, have read about others. I’m behind a firewall and every time I go get my computer scanned, it says I’m invisible.
The only time I’ve ever gotten anything was when I was downloading a “free” game.
Some chipsets have been more problematic than others.. Broadcom (makers of the chipset in my old Linksys card) in particular it seems. And I'm not particularly impressed with USB dongles for some things. I have a BlueTooth USB adapter, that's been a problem, not just in Linux, but in native (not VM) Vista. Again, it's a Broadcom chipset. Unfortunately, they don't list chipset mfg's on the box. It was a spur of the moment purchase. Oh well. I'm just going to have to get the BT daughtercard for the laptop and install that. You might also want to stay with a more mainstream distros from one of the bigger houses; openSuSE, Redhat, Unbutu.
Shutting down the UAC doesn’t sound wise. It’s their lame attempt at security, for people that run from the Administrator/Owner account.
>>...I don’t get called ‘thief’ etc.<<
Heh, heh. My skin is so thick when it comes to name calling that I may have a mild form of insanity.
I go into this weird “consider the source” mode. It’s like that old Groucho Marx line, “I’d never join a club that would allow someone like me to become a member” only in a reverse.
That is, I never respect the opinion of a person that would stoop to calling me names based solely on what he heard on the internet. I don’t just say it. I live it.
I am robroy on Harmony-central.com. You aughta hear all the ad-hominem attacks I get there. And there is no language censorship, if you get my drift...
It’s a lame attempt for sure. The UAC merely trains people to okay everything, as normally they try to run stuff they know is safe. It becomes muscle memory. How safe is that? In the long run, it’s not much safer at all.
I view the machinery as if I own it (I do), and the software (despite the license, I own what I bought). I don’t feel the need to bow before the almighty nanny-state software setup that is the default Vista. I make the security decisions in my house and I don’t Vista nagging me.
I’m far more pleased with my OS when it doesn’t piss me off. Which is why my Linux distro of choice is PCLinuxOS 2007, waiting for 2009.
I literally haven’t seen a BSOD in years. I’ve never seen one on Vista FWIW.
“Windows 95 was better. MUCH better, and not a gargantuan resource hog.”
Try running a 6 gig MKV file from a thumb drive with Win 95.
“Talk with any Vista owner and you’ll hear nothing but nightmares.”
Uh, I have vista on my notebood at home. I had one old program that wouldn’t work and a couple that warned me that they wouldn’t work but worked anyway.
That was about 18 months ago, thousands of hours later, no nightmares.
I helped my wife set up a Mac laptop she got for Christmas. There were some similar set up issues but overall, a very similar experience as with Vista.
“That was about 18 months ago, thousands of hours later, no nightmares.”
Apparently I should have been more discriptive in my post.
“Talk with any (average non-geek) Vista owner and you’ll hear nothing but nightmares.”
*FIXED*
I will say I haven't seen the BSOD on Windows 7 yet, but on 2 computers running Windows 7, my Internet Explorer 8 became crippled where it won't connect online. Firefox works though. I wish I could find a fix for Internet Explorer 8 but it's a beta version and won't allow downloading the RC1 version you can get for XP or Vista. Anyone know a way to fix this, or has anyone had this occur to them?
That problem is self explanatory.
My version of windows system startup disks comes with Norton. And it is the very first program I delete after windows reload. Norton won’t tell you that you have a virus on many occassions because it doesn’t recognise all viruses. What’s the sense of having an anti-virus if it doesn’t recognise a threat ?
I use Avast anti-virus, it’s the best I have found over the past 15 years exp. and I won’t trade it for nothing. Zone Alarm firewall, Adaware 2008 & spybot SD are other prog’s I simply will not do with out.
for me “XP” is where it’s at. And I’m not willing to reinvest another 2-3 years learning a different platform when there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the XP platform.
The only place I see people complaining about Vista is on the internet.
My 84 year old FIL had his computer die last fall, he made the transition with no problems. He is a little older than average but definately not a computer geek.
I’m home now so I am posting from Vista as we speak. I walked in, turned on the computer and amazingly, it started and I was able to open my programs. No registry hacking, no super geek interventions, it just works.
This whole Vista scare is getting a little over the top.
I totally agree. I've been using Vista Home Premium 64-bit for quite a while now, and I love it. It's more stable than XP (and I like XP) and faster. It looks nice, it's easy to get around in. My mom has had some terrible issues with her Mac OSX system, and that thing is far more powerful than my Vista computer. One thing I learned from poking around OSX was that it seemed that Apple seemed to be just a little too cool, like they had out-"slick"'d themselves or something. There were simple things I wanted to do (no, Mac people I don't remember the particulars), and I had absolutely no idea how/where to go. Not a huge deal since that's why God invented Google, but it was kind of annoying.
Anyway, sometimes you get a lemon, sometimes you don't. I like Vista and have no complaints.
I’ve been impressed with the speed of the Windows 7 beta. But I’ve heard that the beta doesn’t have any of the DRM activated, which could slow it to Vista speed when it’s done.
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