Windows 7 arriving early - M$ to show off OS on October 28

That makes it the only OS most young folks have ever seen, and perhaps the first time they have experienced a change that directly affects them as well.

 

Agreed, people seem to be really resistant to change. But how can a product evolve and get better if things exactly stay the same? I think Vista's the best out of every version I've used.

 

Hell, Ubuntu, OS X, Solaris, most OSes have there logo slapped everywhere.....

 

True, but when XP came out, it had mostly good reviews for it. When Vista came out, it was trash. So they went back to XP.

4 years from now, people will still think Vista is trash. Lets see how Window 7 does.

I'm using Both XP and Vista. XP so far has no major problems for me. Vista on the other hand, has issues. Vista looks much nicer though. But takes longer to load. Like a good 1.5 minute longer to load.

 

I found XP, pre-SP2, to be junk. I found Vista, both pre-SP1 and SP1, to be quite good.

 

I also much prefer Vista.

It is faster, looks better and is just as easy to use from my experience on multiple computers. I still have to use XP in my work computer, and its fine, but to me Vista is definately preferred. Never really got what all of the complaints were about, I have never had a driver issue (using 64-bit version), only a few programs that wouldn't work (mostly because they weren't compatible with 64-bit), etc.... I suppose that experience may differ a little with different hardware configurations but I think it has been blown way out of proportion.

Oh well, still excited to see what Windows 7 turns out like!

Stu

 

I'm not slamming Vista, I use it and I quite like it. Myabe its time for a whole new OS. IU completely different. I am not sure how much uproar (if any) there was when Windows 3.1 was ditched and the new different IU of 95 was released. Maybe its time for that again. Goodby start buttom which has been around for 13 years.

 

Compatibility: Every application I have runs under Vista x64. This includes very old games (Age of Empires I, circa 1998), homebrew apps like emulators, and everything else. Apps that don't work basically can't, such as antivirus type things. Oh noes, new OS requires new antivirus! Note that people already went through this with XP (as most home users did not use Win2K) so it's not like a new thing.

Ease of Use: Learning curve? It's been five years, and the interface had to change to keep up with the times. Figure, five years: Five years before XP, it was 1996. There were still plenty of people whining about how Win95 was all new and fancy and nobody could figure it out compared to Win 3.1. Win95's odd interface and poor "ease of use" was a popular sticking point in those days.

Feature control: I'm not sure what you want, but the typical user (ie. soccer mom) doesn't care about this. What kinds of things do you believe Vista no longer lets the user do? What features do we not have control over?