Comments on: Windows 7: A better Vista?

With the new operating system, Microsoft aims to address many of Vista's shortcomings while keeping things largely the same under the hood.

[Stang5150]

I'm satisifed with Vista now that I've tweeked it. I really don't see a need to go out and buy another operating system that has features that should have been issued as a SP to begin with.

[YankeePoodle]

To put my two cents, why are people here fighting Mac vs PC. All I can see whenever there is discussion about Windows, the AppleFanBots cannot resist being on the sidelines.

Apple is great, OS X is great but all us dont have budgets of over 1500$ for a notebook, that is a fact. My priorities are some where else, just spare me the jobs gospel.

[btljooz]

It's so extremely SIMPLE!

M$ is repeating history:

Vista = Win ME
Win 7 = Win 2000
Win flavor NEXT = Win XP

As for me? I'm jumping on the Linux bandwagon.
"Without walls" who *needs* Windoze???

[Mark_Anderson]

I think we can all agree that you're extremely simple.

[chonnom]

*yawn* When I can build a viable OSX machine, myself, for $700 and walk into any store and buy any game I want and go home and play it, the day it is released, I'll buy a Mac.... Oh, wait, I'll never be able to build my own OSX machine, will I? No thanks, I'll stick to Windows, buggy or not, at least until game manufacturers start compiling for Linux.

Some of us have better things to spend our money on than overpriced PC components in a cute package.

[mackenzie2881]

I have now had Vista for almost 8 months. It is very good, despite what people say,and is much better than XP.

[mackenzie2881]

I have now had Vista for almost 8 months. It is very good, despite what people say,and is much better than XP.

[bar86]

Dear Bill, If I liked MAC I would buy one ! Most of the ppl do not like MAC, so why are trying to imitate a failing product, just to fail too ???????

I run Vista and XP on the same computer. My professional Flight Sim Programs run way faster on XP. And I could not care why. The facts are that 73% of users use XP and only 13% use Vista. Vista UI looks great at first glance but when you try to do a real work on it you just get a headache. If most of the crowd does not like Vista , why this situation will change with W7 that has actually the same UI ? For me a computer is a working tool, not a game to display astonishing wallpaper with gadgets. When you open a window in wista, most of the screen is dedicated to the toolbars and etc, while only a small area is left for the working stuff !

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[chaostheory6682]

I have Had the oportunity to work with xp, xp 64-bit, and vista 32-bit. out of all of them the 32 bit version of xp is the most compatable with current programs and the easiest and most stable. I currently use the 64 bit edition on xp because of hardware compatability, it is also a very stable system. Although not entirely compatable with everything 32-bit, mostly online video sites and a handfull of other multimedia programs(hulu and netflix work though)so far, it is a very good operating system that works well with games and programs and gives me the bandwidth to beaf up a system the way i want. xp is just as easy to navigate(don't care what the vista fans have to say), it's all about how you set it up. XP doesn't take up alot of resources to run, allowing you to use your hardware for the software you intended to run. The problem I encountered with vista is(besides all the darn security warnings and things) is that just having it on your computer requires more resources and processing power. Resources that are being taking away from the things that you realy want to run, the software and the games you enjoy using. the operating system should use the least space and power that it can to make it work well with the software you want to use. not the other way around. the other big problem with vista is that it has so many compatibility issues(i've seen it with my own eyes), games don't want to run right, some programs don't want to run right and although I have'nt used the 64-bit edition I have heard that it's even worse. I just hope that with the release of windows 7 they will have fixed alot of the problems and improved alot of the features that are lacking in vista. Cheers!! and hears to hoping.

[rorow-me]

Did you know if you send anyone hatemail windows will pick that up and keep it in a monitered database, which will be seen by secret services like the cia and mi6

[dirty55409]

IT friends of mine have certainly warmed up to Vista over the last 6 months or so, and the only person I know that uses a mac is a girl who likes cats and showers less than me. XP is simple, compared to Vista correct? Now is this windows 7 OS going to be more Consumer oriented and braindead simple? like XP? I don't want microsoft integrated spyware crap and windows live is not something I want at all. So explain these things to me somebody please.

[jcr0911]

installed on a 1.4GH Pentium M, with 1 GB memory... It is faster than my dual core with 4 GB ram on boot up... so far the "slimmed down vista" seems successful

[phanind]

vista is best if you have enough memory and processor frequency,7 beta is great