Now that Win 7 has been out a while...

I agree with burnsy and Khaaan! The UI is fantastic and prefer it to OS X. I would be lost without my Superbar and Jumplists!
 
I've been rolling out Win7 machines to users at work for the past 2 months now and these are users coming from XP but they also love those very same features :p

And these are middle aged folks who dislike change generally!
 
I would be classified as a user slow to upgrade windows, i only upgraded to windows xp when i was forced to due to apps and games not installing on windows 2000. That being said i never even installed windows vista. The exposure that i had to it was on other people's pcs and i did not like it. I upgraded to windows xp 64bit and said that i was going to use that until i was forced to upgrade. But i bought an SSD and took the leap to windows 7 and i can't say that i regret it. After disabling a lot of the features and making a few tweaks i have had no problems with it. Occasionally some software crashes but I quickly end the task and get on with it.
 
Elevon said:
Problem is Win7 is based on Vista anyway so any improvements you have Vista to thank for the groundwork.

Personally I had no issues with Vista especially after SP1,not to meantion drivers are now thick and fast for both Vista and 7 nowadays(remember you can even use Vista drivers on 7 at a pinch),so I would have to say its an improvement with older/slower hardware,however stability wise its the same for me since I had no issues in that area,boot times etc same for me since I have both Vista and 7 running sweet.

Some problems with Vista I would even put down to user error as well,believe me you would be amazed at some of the excuses I have heard where it turns out to be faulty hardware and not the OS,problem is everybody likes to blame Vista when most people don't have a clue what they are talking about.

Bottomline Win7 is an improvement on Vista with older hardware but Vista is still a good OS in its own right,anybody that says otherwise should not be building or using PCs and should stick to consoles.
Win7 is probably best OS so far by Microsoft IMHO ,I have high hopes for Win8 to be even better ,only time will tell if I'm right.
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Agreed:) boots up in half the time ;)
 
I had absolutely no problems with vista, and IMO 7 just feels like a refined version. Yes, Vista had driver problems on release, but that's as much down to the hardware manufacturers as anything.
 
jellybeard999 said:
I had absolutely no problems with vista, and IMO 7 just feels like a refined version. Yes, Vista had driver problems on release, but that's as much down to the hardware manufacturers as anything.
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This is essentially how I feel about it. I used Windows XP x64 on a system that had full driver support, and it was great. I used Vista x64 on the same system, with full driver support, and again it was great. I always assume that people who had issues with Vista were trying to run it on hardware that was barely adequate for running XP, and were surprised when their 4+ year old systems ground to a halt under Vista.
 
#1 bad thing about W7 is how many goddamn mouse clicks it takes to change the date/time! :)

(I know, I know, you don't often need to do that manually - but I've got a longterm habit of using the calendar in windows clock to check what day of the week future dates are etc)
 
HangTime said:
#1 bad thing about W7 is how many goddamn mouse clicks it takes to change the date/time! :)

(I know, I know, you don't often need to do that manually - but I've got a longterm habit of using the calendar in windows clock to check what day of the week future dates are etc)
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Que?!

 
I used Vista Business 64bit on my desktop for the last 2 years.
Upgraded to 7 Home Premium 64bit last month as I needed an OS with Windows Media Centre, and why sidestep when you can move forward?

TBH, I can't say I've noticed much performance-wise. I still question the people who badmouth Vista as much as they do. It's just NOT as they try to make out.

I don't notice much difference in day-to-day usage between 7 and Vista. But I guess my Vista install must have been broken as it actually performed well... :|
 
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A turd on a stick would be better than vista , so win 7 doesnt have to do much to be better

Mind you it is still not stable enough for business/industrial use , after sp1 it might be.
 
Yes it is stable?

If your experience is that it's not stable then you need more stable hardware (or get rid of user error) to support the OS.

SP1 brings nothing that fixes stability because there are no Win7 stability issues to fix.
 
lurkio said:
A turd on a stick would be better than vista , so win 7 doesnt have to do much to be better

Mind you it is still not stable enough for business/industrial use , after sp1 it might be.
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What stability issues are there? It's more stable than XP by far.
 
lurkio said:
A turd on a stick would be better than vista , so win 7 doesnt have to do much to be better

Mind you it is still not stable enough for business/industrial use , after sp1 it might be.
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The only reasons Vista will have been unstable for you are:

- You were doing it wrong
- The manufacturer of your hardware failed to provide stable drivers, which is not the operating systems fault

NVIDIA had TERRIBLE Vista drivers for a while, I got half the FPS at times in Vista than I did XP. The common user would say "OMG VISTA SUCKS!!" but really it was not Vistas fault at all.

7 > Vista >>>>>>>>>>> XP :o
 
Se7ven said:
XP was better than Vista.
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Says the users who try to install Vista on computers with 800mhz CPU, 512mb RAM and 16meg graphics card:rolleyes:


lurkio said:
A turd on a stick would be better than vista , so win 7 doesnt have to do much to be better

Mind you it is still not stable enough for business/industrial use , after sp1 it might be.
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Windows 7 or Vista for that matter is perfectly stable for business/industrial use. The only reason why a lot of businesses stick to XP is because they still rely on ageing software which is only compatible with Windows 2000/XP. They refuse to upgrade to new versions or have in-house software re-written for the new OS's.
 
Regarding win7 and stability , Iam coming from an industrial angle where ability
to do things such as running a program for a prolonged period of time WITHOUT
having a memory leak that causes the app to crash every so often is more important than having a pretty UI.

Same system under XP runs for ages without problems ( same hardware )

Most of you will be coming from a standard desktop user angle , where being able
to run some stuff for 8 hours a day is enough , with industrial it needs to do this
for weeks at a time.


"The only reason why a lot of businesses stick to XP is because they still rely on ageing software which is only compatible with Windows 2000/XP. They refuse to upgrade to new versions or have in-house software re-written for the new OS's."

Yep why spend money when you have something that works fine now ?
Mind you once Xp support is dropped people wont have a choice.
 
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