Isnt Win7 Win Vista but improved?

arfur · 21 Oct 2009 at 07:12

I was under the impression that Win7 was a new and improved windows Vista, having it core OS based on Vista's core. According to the BBC news on 1 a few mins ago they stated its nothing to do with Vista and tried to sell it as a replacement if you dont like Vista,,, :confused:

lokkers · 21 Oct 2009 at 07:20

That's because they don't have a clue what they're talking about. I had a 2 minute rant at the TV, much to my wife's displeasure. The best part was when the technology reporter said he wasn't very familiar with Windows :rolleyes:

W7 is built ontop of Vista, but with new features and performance improvements. I've been likening it to 2000 > XP.

arfur · 21 Oct 2009 at 07:25

exactly, as long as its not just me ... dumb non-techies...

rick fowler · 21 Oct 2009 at 07:45

made me laugh when that reporter said "there's even a new oc sofware out next week called unbunto"

its been out for years!!

willhub · 21 Oct 2009 at 08:14

Can't believe they had problems, wonder what he did to get a blank screen.

knowledge123 · 21 Oct 2009 at 08:30

Isn't any new OS like an improved version of the previous ?

Windows 7 is much improved over Vista, and I look forward to receiving my copy

m4cc45 · 21 Oct 2009 at 08:37

arfur said:
I was under the impression that Win7 was a new and improved windows Vista, having it core OS based on Vista's core. According to the BBC news on 1 a few mins ago they stated its nothing to do with Vista and tried to sell it as a replacement if you dont like Vista,,,

The guy on BBC news was an absolute monkey. Why have none-technical people talking about Operating Systems. He had no clue at all.

M.

m4cc45 · 21 Oct 2009 at 08:38

rick fowler said:
made me laugh when that reporter said "there's even a new oc sofware out next week called unbunto"

its been out for years!!

He was on about touch-screen technology. Everyone is saying this is make or break for Microsoft - the pre-sales have been unbelievable and they're still saying 'it will be ages before we know if this has been successful'.

Muppets the lot of them. It seems every news story has to be sensationalised.

M.

mrk · 21 Oct 2009 at 09:21

If the Pre-sales have been unbelievable then quite clearly it won't take ages to see its success

Silly BBC.

Also, it's the first OS MS have released in BETA/RC steps to the public (also leaked ¬_¬) and the public has had nothing but praise for. I guess that's down to the fact that today digital distribution is ten fold faster than when Vista came out - plus Vista paved the way by having several years to sort out the drivers.

Silly BBC!

bledd · 21 Oct 2009 at 09:25

pro tip; don't watch tv

willhub · 21 Oct 2009 at 09:32

I like watching TV though.

bledd · 21 Oct 2009 at 09:35

see post #10

EffBee · 21 Oct 2009 at 09:38

Damn - this thread just went into an infinite loop.

Guess no one will be able to read this then.

mrk · 21 Oct 2009 at 09:44

Oh Snap it's the EffBee, cheese it!

Hitman_Leon · 21 Oct 2009 at 09:47

bledd. said:
pro tip; don't watch tv

Is it ok if I just look and laugh now and then?

Hitman_Leon · 21 Oct 2009 at 09:49

bledd. said:
see post #10

It was you who wrote those n-vidia drivers!

clv101 · 21 Oct 2009 at 09:58

mrk said:
Also, it's the first OS MS have released in BETA/RC steps to the public...

This has been a really good move from MS. They get thousands of users playing with it for months pretty much guaranteeing there won't be any major problems at public launch. The geeks are happy as they get to play early, the public is happy as they get higher quality software, MS is happy as they get months of coverage and feedback...

If only Apple did the same with Snow Leopard and maybe the critical guest account deleting your user account bug wouldn't have shipped!

It seems next month MS are doing the same public beta of Office 2010.

willhub · 21 Oct 2009 at 09:59

bledd. said:
see post #10

I like watching TV though.

m4cc45 · 21 Oct 2009 at 10:05

clv101 said:
This has been a really good move from MS. They get thousands of users playing with it for months pretty much guaranteeing there won't be any major problems at public launch. The geeks are happy as they get to play early, the public is happy as they get higher quality software, MS is happy as they get months of coverage and feedback...

If only Apple did the same with Snow Leopard and maybe the critical guest account deleting your user account bug wouldn't have shipped!

It seems next month MS are doing the same public beta of Office 2010.

Be no point in Apple doing this as there OS's are designed for there hardware. Couldn't see millions of people out there buying there hardware just so they can test an o/s for free.

M.

madindehead · 21 Oct 2009 at 10:56

clv101 said:
This has been a really good move from MS. They get thousands of users playing with it for months pretty much guaranteeing there won't be any major problems at public launch. The geeks are happy as they get to play early, the public is happy as they get higher quality software, MS is happy as they get months of coverage and feedback...

If only Apple did the same with Snow Leopard and maybe the critical guest account deleting your user account bug wouldn't have shipped!

It seems next month MS are doing the same public beta of Office 2010.

I remember reading somewhere, that at the height of Windows 7 beta and RC testing, they were getting some ridiculous number of send feedback reports every minute. Something like 100 every minute, 24 hours a day for 2 weeks or something.

I loved that I could play with Windows 7 early. Even from the beta, there were hardly any bugs that I had to report one.