New screenshots of Windows 7 emerge
By Darren Murph 
posted September 22nd 2008 6:24AM
posted September 22nd 2008 6:24AM
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Why do all the new screenshots of windows products make me feel like I'm snorkling?
ZOMG! Upgraded calculator! Where can I pre-order?
I don't get most of the grips about Vista, yes it had a good number of issues at launch but so did XP. After SP1 all my issues, including ones I had with XP, were fixed. My gaming performance is up and my system has never run cleaner...
Please change the colour scheme. The Vista colours look like puke blue (if there was such a thing).
Only about 300 builds old at this point
Dear MS,
I don't care if you add ZERO new features to Windows 7. Please just streamline the code and reduce the overall disk/memory footprint.
-Ax
Looks quite hideous!
After all the fun Apple has had poking fun at all the different versions of Vista, and the one and only version of Leopard, I highly doubt Microsoft would release another Ultimate edition for its new OS. Microsoft has taken aim at Apple and this can clearly be seen in the new advertising campaign of I'm a PC.
Vista 64 Ultimate is by far the best OS out there, bar none.
Gaming performance is also a non-issue now, as it meets or exceeds XP SP3 even.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2302527,00.asp
Windows 7 just needs to follow in Vista SP1's footsteps and then Microsoft will have a winner on their hands.
Cheque is in the mail. -Bill.
get a new computer and vista will run flawlessly. Mine starts in less than 30 seconds, never hiccups (even if i am running rhapsody, itunes, firefox, internet explorer, photoshop, word and excel all at once) and closes in a flat 5 seconds. Get a core 2 quad and 4 gigs of ram, you wont have any problems with vista then.
Assuming you use it in the way your minders prescribe.
I appreciate i will be 'carefully' informed of my 'mistakes' in this post but:
I've recently got a new laptop with vista (before i bought i carefully checked that installing XP would NOT invalidate the warranty, and that i had a copy of XP Pro about) (Intel pentium 1.86GHz, 2Gb ram, Dell inspiron 1525, 3.1 windows experience, Dell Windows Vista SP1)
After i had installed everything, created user accounts, removed unnecessary dell software (only from startup), and generally set up, i was shocked to discover that i was running on 1.43Gb page file (i have 2Gb real ram), however after a couple of openings of normal programs, its has become very fast, startup 25s (my old XP- 3minutes (intel celeron 0.8GHz, 128Mb RAM, IBM/lenovo Windows XP home SP1 upgrade to SP2 ((not SP3 as then the IBM trackpoint driver stops working)), IBM/lenovo thinkpad r50e)
Although i'm sure it will slow down over time at the moment i think that it is very good, and i think that some of the new (or advanced) features of vista are excellent:
power plans (yes i know they where in XP, but they never worked for me)
multiple monitors (allows widescreen and regular withought making one 16bit color for some reason)
networking (connects fast, only objection is that i cant find the option for auto-connect when im near this wireless network, and change proxy settings depending on what i'm connected to)
infact the only issues i've had are the computer wont sleep (dell setting in bios), the wireless ones, and that i cant migrate my iTunes library to my new PC
Vista was a dud. it offered nothing new that normal devs couldn't make. the only way that Windows 7 will be better then any previous Windows version is it it is rewritten COMPLETELY, and in asm for that matter. Ms has gotten itself into the programming ditch where there is so much to do and so few cycles to do it that it's not better, it's actually worse. the only way out of that is erase everything and start over wit ha new mindset. it's an opportunity to do things quick, simple and right. The kernel is another problem all in it's own. It desperately needs a rewrite, forgetting about legacy software. maybe support for it later but initially that is what it will take to 1) get rid of the HUGE virus problem that windows machines suffer from and 2) to optimize the kernel for better performance and more precise floating point calculations.
the interface is another issue in itself. personally the initial Windows 7 beta (the one with the ascii windows flag and console) would have been the selling point for me. i can guarantee that nothing in this world is better then a bash shell. if you know bash then you can interface with practically any piece of hardware in the world(within reason). a good strategy would be what linux did with X and what OS X does with darwin/X. it runs above the command line and, once again, is pure streamlined code. there are no nuances or sparkles, it does what it needs to and it does it efficiently.
Those of you who say that Vista is more secure cannot be more ignorant. ActiveX provides the most optimal entrance for viruses and malignant code. the black box team wrote a browser virus for vista which moved into the core of the system and observed everything that was going on. microsofts solution to switch around the address spaces in memory for programs is futile since it does that every CPU tick and it only takes one loops for a virus to get some address space and screw it over.
now if you really don't want to be bothered by any of this, get a Mac. I used to loathe macs but after 2 months of "just working", OS X is my best friend. just try a mac, you won't even notice you're happiness. :P
Look Ma! Another post trotting out outdated, factually incorrect drivel!
If we've been had its not the first time. Too much Anti MS out there really, If you want to run another OS, nobody is stopping you. When somebody writes Ubuntu to do what Media Center does and don't give me some other front end nonsense like MythTV; I would consider something else. But with that being said, Vista has run mainly without issue especially after SP1 and for those with short memories like most Americans, XP wasn't uber stable until SP1 and didn't get praise so many want to put on it until SP2.... Vista works just fine, sure some things can be worked on but generally I am happy and the main thing I want from Win7 is "drum roll please" -
H.264 which in turn gives me - Direct TV USB Dual Tuner.....
That's all I want, all the other stuff is fluff
So vista is a great firmware for an insanely expensive VCR is what you tell us, thanks for the info
Where's the video?!!!
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People love to hate MS. They love hating Vista even more. So when I installed both the x86 and x64 versions of Vista I was expecting to like it. I figured the eggheads were clamoring over trivial issues.
Vista is, without question, a patently awful OS. XP is great... I've used it for 7 years now. How do you screw that up? By making everything a pain. The UI is clumsy. The eye candy serves to obscure more than add to the experience. Yes, most these annoyances have work-arounds which would be fine if not for OS X.
During the same period I did my first OS X installs... 10.2 thru 10.4.9 on a few Macs. I almost knelt down and wept. It was so easy... so incredibly easy. I really expected Vista to be almost as good as OS X. I am dumb.
I am just a builder who has installed and run Vista under most every Intel system you could imagine. I have invariably found Vista to be clunky, slow and stubborn, and customers rarely ask for it. XP might be out-dated and basic in comparison, but it is relatively fast and efficient. If Windows 7 can combine the best features of both, I woudl be all for it.