Will You Buy Windows 7???

Glaucus · 19 Jul 2009 at 14:28

The UI and WMC on there own make W7 worth upgrading to. Proper SSD support and with all new releases. Comparability and doing things gets even easier. True multi monitor support.
when I had vista I would never go back to XP. Xp felt old, sluggish and looked horrible. Since I've been using W7. There's no way I would go back to Vista. Pretty mcuh for the same reason.

Faustus · 19 Jul 2009 at 14:39

AcidHell2 said:
The UI and WMC on there own make W7 worth upgrading to. Proper SSD support and with all new releases. Comparability and doing things gets even easier. True multi monitor support.
when I had vista I would never go back to XP. Xp felt old, sluggish and looked horrible. Since I've been using W7. There's no way I would go back to Vista. Pretty mcuh for the same reason.

I would agree with you regarding moving from XP to Vista but moving from Vista to W7 is like saying do you prefer blonds or brunettes? I have used W7 myself now on three different PC and I have found minimal difference. Perhaps I don't easily swallow hype. More a case of form over substance I'm afraid.

TheVoice · 19 Jul 2009 at 14:46

Please stop bringing hype into it. If you're not fond of 7 that's fine, but I can assure you that for those of us on here who are looking forward to 7, it's got nothing to do with hype.

For me, based on my occasional use of the RC, 7 looks a bit nicer, works a bit nicer and runs quite a bit nicer. If Vista does everything you want that's fine, you're not being forced into using 7 by anyone, but that doesn't mean the rest of us are stupid for wanting to run a newer and better OS.

Glaucus · 19 Jul 2009 at 15:03

Faustus said:
I would agree with you regarding moving from XP to Vista but moving from Vista to W7 is like saying do you prefer blonds or brunettes? I have used W7 myself now on three different PC and I have found minimal difference. Perhaps I don't easily swallow hype. More a case of form over substance I'm afraid.

you could go back to the old task bar?
Yes but that form makes it easier and nicer to use IMO.
And as I said there is function. Multiple monitor support, WMC, ssd and a lot more. Although a lot of the extras are "business" use.

Deleted member 77746 · 19 Jul 2009 at 15:06

No I won't be. I will get it from where I work.

Faustus · 19 Jul 2009 at 16:36

TheVoice said:
Please stop bringing hype into it. If you're not fond of 7 that's fine, but I can assure you that for those of us on here who are looking forward to 7, it's got nothing to do with hype.

For me, based on my occasional use of the RC, 7 looks a bit nicer, works a bit nicer and runs quite a bit nicer. If Vista does everything you want that's fine, you're not being forced into using 7 by anyone, but that doesn't mean the rest of us are stupid for wanting to run a newer and better OS.

You have a knife and fork you're offered a new knife and fork both do the same job though your assured one will do the job better than the other - see where I'm coming from? I never said I wasn't fond of W7 I'm just saying that for 99.9% of Vista users W7 isn't worth the money that's not an argument it's a fact! I accept you will feel the need to justify you're purchase as it's a human trait. I'm still waiting for someone to actually quantify what the benefits are - how would spending £50 improve greatly over Vista, words like "bit nicer" "runs nicer" aren't really quantifiable attributes?

Deleted member 77746 · 19 Jul 2009 at 16:39

It's a way Microsoft to make money, theres no speed enhancements in how fast one can be productive.

Voxination · 19 Jul 2009 at 16:42

I will probably grab (legally) this and put it on both computers (Mine and parents.)

Should hopefully make networking a lot easier between both PCs and give a new lease of life into the older PC.

Glaucus · 19 Jul 2009 at 16:42

Faustus said:
how would spending £50 improve greatly over Vista, words like "bit nicer" "runs nicer" aren't really quantifiable attributes?

For me, new task bar, WMC, true multi monitor support and backup. So you don't have to use stupid 3rd party software for backup and monitor support.

m_cozzy · 19 Jul 2009 at 16:43

Not for me, w7 seems ok, certainly considerably better than vista

but I still prefer xp & 2003 server for my day to day usage.

Mattus · 19 Jul 2009 at 16:54

Faustus said:
I'm just saying that for 99.9% of Vista users W7 isn't worth the money that's not an argument it's a fact!

It always amuses me when people make statements like that. That's not a fact. There's no evidence to prove it, so it's an opinion, and not an especially well-informed one at that.

I don't really see why improvements have to be quantifiable. I gather you're looking for something like "boots 30% quicker" or "uses 30% less RAM". That is important, but it's the user experience that's sold it for me. AcidHell has given some improvements, to which I'd add better window management, better networking, lower RAM usage, more snappiness on slower PCs, better support of multi-core CPUs.

the_jetsetwilly · 19 Jul 2009 at 16:57

Sirrel Squirrel said:
Just ordered HP for £44.99, first time I've actually bought an OS!

same here and i've been using MS since dos 6!!!!

Burnsy2023 · 19 Jul 2009 at 16:57

m_cozzy said:
Not for me, w7 seems ok, certainly considerably better than vista but I still prefer xp & 2003 server for my day to day usage.

Really? Server 2008 is leaps and bounds ahead of 2003 (as a server OS, not those silly people who use it as a workstation OS).

OspreyO · 19 Jul 2009 at 17:00

Faustus said:
You have a knife and fork you're offered a new knife and fork both do the same job though your assured one will do the job better than the other - see where I'm coming from? I never said I wasn't fond of W7 I'm just saying that for 99.9% of Vista users W7 isn't worth the money that's not an argument it's a fact! I accept you will feel the need to justify you're purchase as it's a human trait. I'm still waiting for someone to actually quantify what the benefits are - how would spending £50 improve greatly over Vista, words like "bit nicer" "runs nicer" aren't really quantifiable attributes?

If your not having problems with vista great. That wasn't my experience of it.

m_cozzy · 19 Jul 2009 at 17:01

Yep, 2008 seems to run terrible visualized compared to 2003 & seems to behave to much like vista for my liking, give me 2003 any day.

Glaucus · 19 Jul 2009 at 17:03

Mattus said:
to which I'd add better window management, better networking, lower RAM usage, more snappiness on slower PCs, better support of multi-core CPUs.

Yeah network set up is so easy and improves with every new os. I mean it now takes 30 seconds to set up a secure home network and share files. Doesn't sound like much. But it's great just to have things working and working easily. Last thing I want to do is start installing more apps than needed and fiddling around with settings.

For £50 there doesn't need to be huge improvements (but there are huge improvements) if it was £150 or so. I probably wouldn't of pre ordered it and did what I did with vista wait for all the nay sayers to start selling copys on the bay.

I can't understand how anyone can say they prefer xp, it really is shocking rubbish compared to vista/w7.

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_Jimlad_ · 19 Jul 2009 at 17:14

you don't have to be one of those people who has to have the latest and greatest, i was well happy on XP, but then Vista came out and i needed to move with the times, now Win7 is here i will wanna jump on straight away, i have taken my MS exams in XP & Vista and will do the same with win7, yeah XP might have been great but that's not the future now, i really dont see the point in staying with old OS as sooner or later you will be pretty much forced to change anyway, my take is get on it and learn it early

Burnsy2023 · 19 Jul 2009 at 17:18

I have always been an early adopter. Been using Vista since Nov 2006. I think it's time for a fresh loading screen

TheVoice · 19 Jul 2009 at 17:23

Faustus said:
You have a knife and fork you're offered a new knife and fork both do the same job though your assured one will do the job better than the other - see where I'm coming from?

Not really...no.

Faustus said:
I never said I wasn't fond of W7 I'm just saying that for 99.9% of Vista users W7 isn't worth the money that's not an argument it's a fact!

That's not a fact at all, how are you able to judge what is and isn't worth the money for another person? For £45, Windows 7 most certainly is worth the money for me, as well as my step-dad who's asked me to get a copy of 7 for him because he doesn't like certain things about Vista. It also seems to be worth the money to most people on here, otherwise they wouldn't be buying it after making an informed decision about it.

Faustus said:
I accept you will feel the need to justify you're purchase as it's a human trait. I'm still waiting for someone to actually quantify what the benefits are - how would spending £50 improve greatly over Vista, words like "bit nicer" "runs nicer" aren't really quantifiable attributes?

I don't feel the need to justify anything, I'd be saying the same thing even if I hadn't pre-ordered 7. Plenty of people, including myself, have told you what they like about 7 and why those changes, additions and improvements are good things to them, and that's why it's worth it to them. I'm not really sure what else you want people to say.

Colossus · 19 Jul 2009 at 17:25

I never really got on with vista. Things just seemed to be changed for the sake of change and not really well thought through. And lots of niggling bugs like folders forgetting your setting just irked me. Networking was not fantastic either and the whole opperation just felt slow and drawn out. I did not feel the need to switch from a well nLited XP install. More so for the price they were asking!

Win7 however just 'feels right' and much snappier in use. And £50 for full retail is a price thats actualy within reason. Hence 3 copies of HP on the way for my XP desktop and 2 Vista laptops.

But thats just my view...

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