Win 7 still looks like vista, and the fact that win7/vista bury so many things I want to get to behind overly helpful wizards and other things, just annoys the Hell out of me.
Windows is just plain becoming a PIA to deal with AfAIC.
W7 looks like Vista because it IS Vista! Just a new name, new box, and another giant marketing blitz by MS and their partners in crime, namely Dell, HP, and Best Buy.
Just like Vista, W7 will not be adopted by the business world, as there is not a compelling business case, and XP Pro works just fine, thank you very much.
W7’s supposed ability to run non-compatible XP programs is a sick joke. You have to do a full install of a fully licensed copy of XP into MS’s Virtual PC 7 program, and have new hardware and BIOS which is capable of virtualization support. Then you run your XP application in the Virtual PC, which is clunky and communicates clunkily with the Internet and with the host W7 operating system.
(For those of you not familiar with virtual operating systems, think of a standard gauge railroad which has flatbed cars carrying train cars designed for a narrow gauge track, and then carrying the cargo in the piggybacked cars. Now think of the engineer in the piggybacked engine shouting orders to speed up or slow down to the engineer in the standard gauge engine. Now think of the fun in loading and unloading the piggybacked cars.)
As with Vista, the consumer public will be the only ones that “buy” W7, as Best Buy and the like won’t give them any choice, and they’ll be forced to cart home the latest crap from Microsoft sold to them by pimply faced sales dorks. The hapless consumer public will then find out this initial version of W7 is buggy as crap, wait a year for SP1, another year for SP2, find out W7 then works only a little better, then Microsoft announces Windows 2010, rinse, wash, repeat cycle. This is what happens when you own a monopoly. At a minimum, Microsoft needs to be broken up into three companies: an OS company, an application company, and the rest. In the mean time, I really wish the gullible public would wise up and quit falling for Microsoft’s operating system scam, and boycott buying a new computer from Worst Buy or anyone else unless they have a choice of operating systems.