Linked by snydeq on Wed 11th Mar 2009 10:24 UTC
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.
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Member since:2005-06-29
* Painful networking (Sharing / Printers)
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.
Member since:2005-11-10
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.
Member since:2006-01-10
* 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.
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2005-11-10
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.