Anyone Else Think Windows 7 Is Going To Suck?

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Someone please kill this thread. Seriously. I have to say, considering how few people have experienced Windows 7 yet, how can anyone possibly expect it to suck? I mean, first of all, its based on vista..... and that's not a bad thing. Vista is a great OS, it just needs some good tweaking and a lil drano to get rid of the bottlenecks. The fact that they're building 7 off of Vista is actually a good thing, because they won't have the same problems vista did with regard to writing a new kernel. They just have to tweak the one they already have. It is good. It may not be great, but its definitely good. If 7 improves on what we've achieved with Vista/2008 SP2, then there's nowhere to go but up.

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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.

That would make sense if it were true... What market share are they losing? Any sources?

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I can't believe the thread starter thought Microsoft would make it compulsory to have a touchscreen montior :laugh: hahahaha!

Oh dear...

Back to the topic in question: I am really looking forward to Windows 7, I think it's going to be fantastic! The new taskbar is genius!

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I can't believe the thread starter thought Microsoft would make it compulsory to have a touchscreen montior :laugh: hahahaha!

Oh dear...

Back to the topic in question: I am really looking forward to Windows 7, I think it's going to be fantastic! The new taskbar is genius!

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i for one wouldn't mind touch screen as an added bonus :) , that would be pretty cool

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That would make sense if it were true... What market share are they losing? Any sources?

I didn't mean a substantial market loss, more of a continual downward progression, and my original statement should really state windows in general, not just Vista. Though the bad PR with Vista has not help (which mainly consisted of idiots like the starter of this thread judging Vista without actually trying it, or trying to use it on hardware that is not really suitable). Heres a source (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9121938) I should mention that the article does indicate that there was a recent rise in market share before dropping below 90%.

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i for one wouldn't mind touch screen as an added bonus :) , that would be pretty cool

Yeah, but only if they made it so that my normal LCD screen magically became an uber multi-touch touch screen. Then I'll be impressed!

In regards to the topic, I've been using W7 for about a week now, and it's really quite impressive, and surprisingly stable (albeit not perfect yet :)).

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Windows 7 (Build 7000) is pretty impressive in my opinion, it might not please the crowd but it's got a lot of fit and finish already and we're not even at the release candidate stage yet, there's only a few things that really bother me about it:

  • Programs being removed from the frequently used list in the Start Menu if they are pinned to the taskbar.
  • Jump lists are a bit touchy at this stage, although with some more refinement and with more 3rd party applications which support it this should be a non-issue.
  • Internet Explorer 8 is unstable as hell, I don't know if it's a conflict with Adobe Flash Player 10 or what it is, but anything with Flash or any web page that uses AJAX seems to cause the tab to crash.

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From trying build 6801 I think it will be an improvement over vista but if you don't like vista then you probably wont like seven ether. As for system requirements there much the same.

I can't stand Vista, but I like 7. It has the refinement and the performance that Vista should have had to begin with.

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From trying build 6801 I think it will be an improvement over vista but if you don't like vista then you probably wont like seven ether. As for system requirements there much the same.

I think thats a load of rubbish, the use of system resources has been drastically reduced already.

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I've had the chance to try it out, it's certainly much faster than Vista and many of the annoyances from Vista have been fixed. All this and it's still in beta. However Windows Explorer does suck still. Incredibly enough I think they've made it even worse than it was in Vista. There are third party alternatives so it's not the end of the world. I'll use the File Manager from Windows NT 3.51 if it comes down to it.

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I personally don't like Vista, but I haven't really seen enough of 7 to determine whether it is going to be good or "suck". It's a thought in the back of my mind that it could, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for now.

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