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What's so great about it? Is it truly different from Vista?
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Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Its much much better than Vista was at release, I've been using it all month and am loving it. Its a huge improvement over XP.
Though I did turn UAC off because it was annoying the hell out of me.
Though I did turn UAC off because it was annoying the hell out of me.
classical_hero
In whom I trust
How did you turn it off? Nevermind, I figured out.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Windows 7 is the greatest OS to ever grace the beards of mankind.
Win7 is the best OS yet produced by Microsoft. (Yes, it is really just Vista, patched.) It fixes everything that was wrong with Vista. An Win8 will fix everything that's wrong with 7. Etc.
Well, the biggest thing wrong with Vista was public perception, which Win7 does fix quite well.
B-29 Bomber
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Your a Microsoft mole hellbent on brainwashing us all aren't you?!?!
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Nah he's just like that about everything he really likes.
B-29 Bomber
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Windows is old and virus ridden. Time to come up with something new Microsoft! Are they coming out with a new OS? It seems every time I upgrade to the new OS they come out with a new one.
Abaddon
Deity
Is it worth upgrading from /vista? What differences are there?
7 is to Vista what XP was to ME.
No, not at all, Vista is a good operating system.
A much better analogy is that 7 is to Vista what XP was to 2000.
This is true. Windows 7 is basically a glorified patch of Vista.
In the sense that they're both relatively minor releases, yes, though the differences between them aren't really comparable. E.g., one of Vista's problems is not doing well on low (1GB) machines like netbooks, which Windows 7 seems to do better on. But XP was more memory hungry than 2000. And personally I preferred 2000 mostly overall to XP (and Windows XP was criticised for various reasons much like Vista was, when it was first released).
deanej
Deity
Keyword is "first release". XP only looks so good because people had a decade to get used to it. That hasn't happened with any other version of any operating system.
Luckymoose
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Mise
isle of lucy
I don't know why people hated Vista. I never had any problems with it, and loved it. It was a huge improvement over XP and after using Vista on my laptop, I HATED going back to XP on my faster, more powerful PC. Now I have Windows 7 on my PC and I love it, but I don't feel like I'm "stepping down" when I boot my laptop into Vista. It doesn't feel like I'm losing anything from using Vista on my laptop rather than 7 on my PC, whereas it felt like I was losing a lot by using XP instead of Vista.
All the Vista hate is unwarranted, IMO. It may have been true at release, but my experiences with Vista are overwhelmingly positive. Ditto for Windows 7.
All the Vista hate is unwarranted, IMO. It may have been true at release, but my experiences with Vista are overwhelmingly positive. Ditto for Windows 7.
My experiences with Vista (both as a network administrator and as a user) were overwhelmingly negative. Driver issues, instability, and resource-requirement bloat were the three most painful from my perspective. The first two have been resolved over time as I'd expected (chiefly with SP1 or SP2Win7), and the third has mostly been mitigated by hardware specs 'catching up' with the software over the last couple years. Microsoft does seem to have a knack for odd GUI design decisionmaking, too.
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