Anyone Else Think Windows 7 Is Going To Suck?

[Kronir]

No. Windows 7 won't suck.

and

No. You won't need a touch screen to use Windows 7.

:pacifier:

Exactly what I was going to say. :D I can't wait for Windows 7.

[fix-this!]

i don't think 7 will suck but i still think it is too soon for it. they should of just perfected vista with sp2 first, let it mature more.

[hynesy]

Thats not really an option for MS, they are still losing market share with Vista SP1 and can't be sure to turn that around with SP2, to them, its a major risk to gamble.

[:: Lyon ::]

Snipping Tool - A cool intuitive app included with Win7 that lets you easily take screenshots (lets you select which portion of the screen you want to take a screenshot of).

It's included in Vista too but yeah, love that tool, especially for blogging

[svnO.o]

It's included in Vista too but yeah, love that tool, especially for blogging

Oh I didn't even notice that. It showed up in the start menu in Windows 7 so tried it out but never noticed it in Vista or just never took the time to check it out. Ya learn something new everyday!

[NEVER85]

Yeah I mean why not give Mozilla some flak for charging us an inane amount of money for a browser only for it to be a bloated resource hog....oh wait

Hogging resources and utilizing resources are two different things, but being a user of XP, you wouldn't know this.

[NateB1]

I think Microsoft's changing the way they display free RAM in Windows 7 - in Vista, cached RAM was shown as being used - in Windows 7, it isn't. On my 2 Gb RAM laptop, it shows 1.2 Gb cached in the text below the graph, but on the graph, it shows it is using 512 Mb or so being used.

In other words, using almost the same amount of RAM as Vista, but displaying it differently.

Sneaky. :shifty:

I like the change - I now won't have to keep repeating myself on forums saying that Windows is not a memory hog. :p

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

I think Vista was a huge let down but I don't think they'll make the same mistake with Windows 7 - I think it's going to be pretty good :)

[revvo]

With all the fixes and improvements being done to Windows 7, can we call Vista the M.E. of today? It's not near as buggy as M.E. was, but its failure rate at getting it out there sure is.

[HawkMan]

What failure rate at getting out there.

It's not selling as much as they hoped, but it's outselling ay other OS before it in the same timeframe from release, and I don't see many customers asking if they can get computers without vista anymore, those that do are easily turned when you give them the actual facts instead of the misinformation they have. Vista is selling just fine and healthily.

So no, Vista is nowehre near an ME of today, not even close.

[PGHammer]

Oh I didn't even notice that. It showed up in the start menu in Windows 7 so tried it out but never noticed it in Vista or just never took the time to check it out. Ya learn something new everyday!

The constant attacks on Vista are largely due to the FUD Factor that largely was*not* present when Windows XP launched (also, Code RED, one of the nastiest of Internet worm attacks up to that time, was still making the rounds, and Windows XP was the *only* non-Linux/UNIX operating system that was immune out of the box). As opposed to Code RED and its immediate progeny, which was a major XP sales driver, there has been no corresponding driver for Vista (instead, there has been lots of FUD and just plain bad intelligence-gathering regarding Vista performance, even on older hardware).

[jjrambo]

Here is what is going to happen. XP users will stay with XP still.

[Rejinderi]

as far as i know windows 7 is a big improvement over vista

[Skulltrail-old]

Touch screen computers are great for simplistic multimedia tasks, but I don't find it as a total success, specifically in the PC gaming industry, unless of course you connect a keyboard and mouse. <_<

[ViperAFK]

With all the fixes and improvements being done to Windows 7, can we call Vista the M.E. of today? It's not near as buggy as M.E. was, but its failure rate at getting it out there sure is.

No comparing vista to ME is epic fail. It didn't do nearly as poorly as ME and it is perfectly stable.

[FiB3R]

Nice job circumventing the site's profanity filters. And this kind of comment makes you no better than he is.

Quoting the offending text makes you an accessory to the crime. lol

Anyway, Vista is sweet running on 4 of my machines. 7 will be even better.

[bobbytomorow]

Hogging resources and utilizing resources are two different things, but being a user of XP, you wouldn't know this.

I use several operating systems, including Vista, but you wouldn't know that.

[FiB3R]

Windows 7 build 6956 performance test

[Ji@nBing]

Nope. Vista is already awesome, so if they improve on it, it will be an amazing OS.

[bobbytomorow]

Nope. Vista is already awesome, so if they improve on it, it will be an amazing OS.

:laugh:

[Chocolate Afghan]

I just saw the demo video and I'm really starting to hate Windows 7 (codenamed Vista with touch or Vistouch). I hate the fact that I will have to go out and buy a touch screen and I can only imagine the monster of a computer it would take to run it. Why doesn't Microsoft take it one small innovation at a time and try not to make operating systems with the same requirements as a Crysis, Far Cry 2, and Gears of War Hell spawn.

Disclaimer: I'm a Mac zealot but I do hate misinformation and deliberate lying.

1) No where in any of the documentation is it stated that a touch screen is a minimum requirement.

2) So far all evidence shows that memory usage has dropped considerably - DWM.exe for example has gone from 70MB to 12MB, memory usage over all has gone from around 700MB to 461MB; I"m sure there is more optimisation on its way.

3) How can you make 'small changes' one at a time; how on earth do you do a bit by bit migration of GDI/GDI+ to the new WDDM? Before making conclusions like that - know what you're talking about.

[KevinN206]

Disclaimer: I'm a Mac zealot but I do hate misinformation and deliberate lying.

1) No where in any of the documentation is it stated that a touch screen is a minimum requirement.

2) So far all evidence shows that memory usage has dropped considerably - DWM.exe for example has gone from 70MB to 12MB, memory usage over all has gone from around 700MB to 461MB; I"m sure there is more optimisation on its way.

3) How can you make 'small changes' one at a time; how on earth do you do a bit by bit migration of GDI/GDI+ to the new WDDM? Before making conclusions like that - know what you're talking about.

Yup, he judged the book by its cover. In this case, a demo video, and he is already convinced and damned it as opposed to using it like most of us do. I think he just wants some attention.

[azz0r_wugg]

Ive been using Windows 7 fulltime for the past few weeks and its anything but suck.

[rullingen]

Yeah, having used the Beta version of Windows 7 I'm pretty damn impressed. Will most certainly be changing when it comes out and I didn't even bother with Vista.

They seem to have sorted all the haggly nasty bits out of vista and made it run smoother in the process, M$ may have actually struck home with this one.

Having said that does anyone remember that certain early build of Vista that everyone liked but got dropped?

[White Cuban]

its obvious you don't understand anything from thoose sayings. duh, ofcourse they wont remember that most of people who use computers actually need to type things in them, like Work/Book's, programmers, everyone.yeah.