Seven things to love, hate about Windows 7

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LOVE ITBy Anonymous on September 11, 2009, 6:06 pmSo first off, yes; I like PC's. I use a Mac at work and love my iPhone but you are pretty much stuck doing things the way Steve wants you too. I have been running Windows 7 for a couple months now and I LOVE it. I am a Technet subscriber and have access to the RTM and have already upgraded all 6 computers at home. The new interface is smooth and easy to use. The taskbar's view of running programs is genius. The start search (which was in Vista) is much better than Finder. All EVERY SINGLE COMPUTER I have installed 7 on, I did not have to install a single driver. Not one. Windows 7 had drivers for everything. I've been installed operating systems for years and you always have to install drivers. I think it's awesome that I haven't had to on 7. All in all, it is slick, it is clean, it is stable, and yes, it is fast. Stop the hating and give it try. What do you have to lose?

Have you ever used vista?By Anonymous on May 13, 2009, 11:26 am"The Start Menu now includes a search feature, which helps dramatically when the list of installed applications or contents becomes unwieldy" VISTA has this same search otion. If the one in Windows 7 is new, then how is it new? the one shipped in vista searches emails, documents, start menu shortcuts, etc... It even allows you to type in programs to be run that are not on the start menu, due to it's search of file on the hard drive. All you need for this to work, is to allow the indexing service to run... Nope, not something new in windows 7....

Performance: Great. Start menu: SUCKSBy Anonymous on May 6, 2009, 12:13 pmCompared to Vista on the same hardware, WIN7RC runs great. No problems with anything I've thrown at it. But what is it with MS and its recent binge to make Windows look and work as goofy as possible? It's like a mob of bipolar California artsy types broke into the GUI development department and were given free reign, despite the resulting loss of GUI usability. Gone is the dependable, consistent, logical "classic" WIn95/98/me/2000 Start menu option. The new WIN7 "Start menu" is even worse than the default "Start menu" shipped with XP and Vista. Shifting, ever changing and a waste of screen real estate. This is almost as bad as MS eliminating the dependable, consistent menu system in Office 2007 and replacing it with its slippery, slimmy, never consistent "ribbon" construct -- and as is the same with Office 2007, there is no means to regain the more logically-functioning interface! Why break what is not broken? An inconsistent interface is far worse than one which is consistent, as is the case with the Office 2007 "ribbons" and this new WIN7 "Start menu". I have to shake my head in wonder.

Window "18" sentence check By Anonymous on April 30, 2009, 3:56 pmEither "What to Love or Hate" OR "What DO you Love or Hate" but not What TO you Love or Hate". Don't you have proof readers?????

@Anon and security with presumed security issuesBy Anonymous on April 24, 2009, 6:46 amAs everything security seems to be in the mind of the beholder. A recent case in point MAC users installed pirated copies of MAC apps and got infected with a worm/trojan which enabled the first OSX based botnet. Now if the security was that much better on the MAC with its unix underpinnings how did this happen?? Well as in windows it comes down to user access ;Since the mac users feel more secure they ran software as trusted and infected their machines. Now why the double standard if windows users do the same the operating system is insecure etc. Windows users like ALL os users seem to need rduced user rights and increased training to spot issues so they do not create problems for themselves. Also for the people no doubt piping to jump in and say you cannot run windows as non admin you can get sudo like prompts in windows as well by lowering the user access and setting UAC to prompt with a password on user privledge elevation.So people saying most windows users run as admin are correct however they dont necessaraly need to be anymore. A further case in point the last pawn to own contest OSX was compromised via Safari because it had LESS built in security than windows. Chrome proved to be the most secure browser because it makes extensive use of the WINDOWS os it was installed on's OS security features. Even IE8 which was compromised would not have been with the issue it was compromised with being fixed in the final IE8 release. So what to take away security or perceptions there of will not keep you safer on a MAC but on the otherhand windows wile more technically secure right now also has its legacy security issues it has to deal with. And finnaly alot of these security underpinnings in win7 will be available shortly on OSX (the new one in beta) soon too.

Vista is stableBy Anonymous on March 4, 2009, 12:34 pmI installed Vista SP1 Enterprise on my work machine (a 2.2 GHz machine designed for XP with beefed up memory and hard disk space) this machine has not crashed even once. I know a lot of people have had problems with Vista, but a lot of these problems may be of their own creation. I vividly remember when XP came out the old war stories of how great Windows 98 was and that people didn't trust XP, and yada, yada, yada.... People are quick to criticize, but not so quick (or willing) to change when change interferes with comfort.

Re Win 7By Anonymous on March 2, 2009, 8:51 pmThe big thing, at least in the Beta, is performance. It is as fast as XP, maybe even a bit faster, on an aging 2.4 GHz Celeron with 2 gigs of ram.

Vista StabilityBy Anonymous on March 2, 2009, 8:48 pm@Vista is still not stable: I have x64 Vista on a homebuilt with 8 gigs of ram and a BFG video card. The kernel does not slowly suck memory, there are no problems with the video driver, and while Vista has more than its fair share of annoyances, it is completely stable. There has to be something wrong with one of your drivers or something else in your setup.

Vista Svc Pack 2?By Anonymous on January 17, 2009, 3:33 pmSo, this is obviously just a marketing reaction to Vista's poor image. I don't think it matters much; I sure won't be switching to Windows 7 in any hurry.

windows 7?????By Anonymous on January 16, 2009, 10:01 pmit seems to me that is another vista like operating system just with a couple of fixes making up the the errors made with vista, windows 7? no way i'll stick with rock solid XP, and linux

Windows 7By Anonymous on January 16, 2009, 2:27 pmBells and whistles are cool. But the fundimental issues in my mind are security and stability. Unless MS makes dramatic improvements in both, my next upgrade will be a Mac.