Guest post by For the past several months, Microsoft has engaged in an extended public mea culpa about Vista, holding a series of press interviews to explain how the company’s Vista mistakes changed the development process of Windows 7, InfoWorld reports. Chief among these changes was to ‘define a feature set early on’ and only share that feature set with partners and customers when the company is confident they will be incorporated into the final OS. And to solve PC-compatibility issues, Microsoft has said all versions of Windows 7 will run even on low-cost netbooks. Moreover, Microsoft reiterated that the beta of Windows 7 that is now available is already feature-complete, although its final release to business customers isn’t expected until November.
7 will be the best thing since internet porn. I will be flawless, work on 10 year old machines and it will be totally different from Vista, which is a resource hog and just a POS. Everything will be different in 7.
Where Vista smelled like poo, 7 will smell like roses.
Yeah, sure.
I believe(tm) (the hype)
7 is nice, but what I don’t enjoy about it is that it’s still Vista under the hood. It has all the usual ‘Vista-isms’.
* Insane ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ Control Panel
* UAC
* Compatibility (Retro games particularly)
* Sucky OpenGL
* Painful networking (Sharing / Printers)
I switched to a Mac because of just how bad the Vista RC was. Whilst 7 is an improvement, it’s still righteously annoying in many places.
Well, that’s the biggest impovement in 7 for me. Ever since I moved my household onto Windows 7, I’ve not had a single networking issue. Everything works out of the box, no setting up. I think Windows 7 has the best home networking tech currently on the market.
Mac OS X has very good tech too, but it’s gone to waste by the Finder being a a total bitch about networking.
So the solution to the painful networking in Vista/7 is to upgrade all your XP computers to Vista/7? Sounds like Microsoft, smells like Microsoft &c.
Windows networking has always been a relative bitch that requires you to learn a lot of voodoo (Using an XP networked printer on Vista is a prime example). I welcome simpler networking in 7, but I can’t help but feel we’re not on the home-straight yet.
* Insane ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ Control Panel
LoL… I feel the same way about the Control Panel.
As for the UAC. I understand why it’s there, but having to approve an action more than once really annoys the crap out of me. Why can’t they have done it like a linux DE or MacOSX.
Read that far. Windows XP SP1 was about SATA and USB2, but it would still get pwnd within minutes of being connected to the internet, although by then most of the stability and performance issues had been addressed. SP2 was about security and came 2 years later.
Guess I can’t complain that much, it is page 2. I just find it irritating when tech journalists dont even have the enthusiast level of knowledge about what they are writing.
Edited 2009-03-11 12:07 UTC
True. And the SP2 story itself is also not the most glorious one. Microsoft watched hell breaking loose for years before they even announced it. And how long did the whole world actually wait for them to deliver from that one? Afaik it was at least one year.
One year of people begging for MS’ mercy. It was hilarious if not frightening to see this global dependency come visible.
Oh… I was safe from XP and didn’t pay heed to it until SP2 was released. Win2K was my prefered flavor of Windows and still is in many ways.
I also would not even entertain XP until SP2, and still have a number of client machines on 2K because for me it has been the Microsoft OS that has provided the least issues. The only reason we are upgrading some of those machines (to XP) now is we have users who can’t seem to grasp the very slight user differences between IE and Firefox (sigh), and there is some web content that they use that just will not work properly on IE6.
WRT the networking thing, Microsoft have, over the past few years, tried to make it simpler for the home user to network their computers. While this has worked to some degree the downside is they have made it infinitely more frustrating for those who want or need to set things up manually. While the Finder may be a bitch about networking every issue it has can be overcome quite easily, and more importantly in the same or similar manual manner as previous releases. Windows on the other hand…