This guy.
Windows 7 is a very good operating system, easily the best and most secure version of Windows ever, and more than compensates for the mistakes of its predecessor, Vista. And hundreds of millions of XP and Vista users were insanely hungry for a good new release.
So I'm not surprised Win7 is getting a good reception.
I've commented on this forum before that Win7 is pretty much "Vista-Done-Right" (it is, after all, just a point release of NT6, not a major release). But that's not a strike against Win7 so much as it is recognition that Vista was a step in the right direction but done wrong.
I'm very pleased to say that Windows is at last getting to within spitting distance of OS-X and Linux in robustness and security. Win7 is the first version of Windows I feel completely at ease with, stability-wise.
With Microsoft Security Essentials, Win7 does a fine job of trapping and stopping most malware. I personally trust it enough that I have stopped getting 3rd party Anti-Virus packages, even the free ones. Yes, some are probably better than MSE, but I feel it is good enough for what I do (which does not include surfing to known dodgy sites).
But please, NO PERSONAL ATTACKS OR TROLLING about people's preferences in personal computers and operating systems.
This is a Windows thread. If you're not here to discuss Windows, please respect those who wish to do so.
Thanks!
(And is SOMEBODY going to start a Windows Ping List...???)
Care to join a celebration of the best version of Windows yet?
Damn, that’s going to be a HUGE botnet...
I bought a solid state hard drive and Win 7 the day it came out.
Very fast and couldn’t be happier.
Does anyone know if the full version will upgrade on top of an installed Vista system? I’m dealing with a balky hard drive that has a good chance of crashing during install, so I’d prefer to buy the full version and install it on a clone of the old drive on a new drive and save me the time and trouble of reinstalling all the software. However if that doesn’t go well I want to be able to fall back to a “start over” in which case the upgrade would be useless to me.
“...making it the fastest-selling OS in the company’s history. “
After Vista, there was significant motivation!
Yep, MS has a decently stable system, at last. W7 is stable enough that I usually run Windows as the main system with a Linux guest virtual machine now, rather than the other way around. That's a sign of progress!
Since the family wanted to keep their legacy XP profiles, I fresh-installed Win7 Pro 32 on a second hard drive of an older Pentium-4 system. So far, it has been very stable, and has become Dad’s platform of choice. (Ready-Boost w/ USB even works ;)
The one thing I regret is not isolating the 2nd drive during the install — the Boot Manager is stuck on the primary drive, despite my best efforts at trying to figure out BCD to move it to the system drive, and Backup attempts to image both (large) hard drives.
What plagued Windows Vista was that the operating system needed a dual-core CPU and at least 3 GB of RAM to start running decently. Problem: that level of hardware was not generally available at the time of Windows Vista's release. In sharp contrast, at the time of Windows 7 reaching retailers on October 22, 2009, computers with at least dual-core CPU's supporting x86-64 instructions were widely available, and 4 GB of RAM was really cheap. As such, when you buy a new Windows-based desktop computer nowadays, they usually come with 4 GB of RAM installed, which allows for 64-bit memory addressing mode. Also, Windows 7 easily supports 4 to 8 core CPU's, which means very fast operations if you do CPU-intensive work like editing audio and video files and editing high-definition still images.
” With Microsoft Security Essentials, Win7 does a fine job of trapping and stopping most malware “
I too have MSE / 7 combo ...No problems whatsoever ...Wish I could say the same thing about my HP Touchsmart pc ! Never again .
I still love my XP.
No DRM’s and can download without fear of incompatibility to printers and other apps.
This guy.