Broke my Windows 7 virginity

I really like windows 7 as well. Had it a year now, and so more responsive, light on ram than Vista. Also the default visuals are a lot better.
 
The hate for Vista is very tiring, one of my lecturers slates it every chance he gets and then most of my idiotic class agree with him. I don't get it, I used it when it first came out and had no issues at all, ok the NVIDIA drivers were garbage for a while but that wasn't Vistas fault.

Manufacturers just seemed slow to get Vista drivers out, I bet most of the issues with Vista people claim to have had were related to bad drivers.

7 is a lot better, but Vista was always much better than XP and certainly not the slow piece of crap people claim it to be.
 
I was probably the only person on the planet with no Vista issues, 64bit too!

I quite enjoyed it over XP and of course the jump to 7 was filled with excitement too :p
 
Margaret said:
The hate for Vista is very tiring, one of my lecturers slates it every chance he gets and then most of my idiotic class agree with him.
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I was at a seminar once and one of the reps was moaning about Vista on his laptop to a room full of people and he looked over to me and said "I bet you hate it too", expecting the IT guy to back him up. If it wasn't for the fact he was being a bit cocky I'd have let it go but I just said "Well no, not really, it's better than XP". He looked a bit perturbed for a second and then moved on - I probably ruined the joke he had lined up.

A lot of the time people just repeat what they hear. And it goes to show how important first impressions are.
 
I get it from clients all the time.

"I have to have XP on my new machine. Vista is crap!"
"Did you have issues running it? I can probably help you with it."
"I've never used it..."
"I see..."

With one particularly ignorant user I had trouble convincing them that Windows 7 wasn't just a new skin for Vista and they insisted on XP. Thankfully Dell told us to bugger off if we wanted XP. 6 months on she loves 7! :D

I make it a point of not telling clients that there are downgrade rights just to make sure they don't try and get rid of Windows 7 on the new machines. Luckily actually having a few Windows 7 machines in the place helps change people's minds!
 
There's only one big problem with Vista - an image problem. In the early days, Vista did crash quite a lot. Yes, any geek worth his salt knows that the crashes were down to shoddy drivers, not a shoddy OS - but Joe Bloggs didn't make the distinction, and just picked up on all the rumours that it crashed more than XP. Now, of course, Vista is completely stable - but mud sticks.

7 is a significant improvement on Vista, especially on slower hardware. But the main reason it's more popular than Vista is because it's not Vista. MS improved the marketing more than they improved the actual software.

whitecrook said:
Even when turning everything back to classic it's better but still deeply flawed. e.g. the breadcrumbs in the address bar. These take up way more space, mean you need an extra click to get to the path.
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You haven't adapted your usage habits to make the most of the changes. For example, you generally don't need to edit the path, because you can just click the arrow after a folder in the path and choose whichever subfolder you want. And if you have the sidebar on, you can access all your drives in one click anyway.
 
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