I have been a programmer since Dos and windows 1.1 and I have used every version of windows extensively. With this note, I have to attack some things in these comments.

This article was written on windows 7 BETA ONE; I am using the latest public beta and I think, as mentioned in the article, it is a massive improvement on XP and, of course, vista. I hated the problems with vista but before vista was released, I knew it was going to be terrible. How? Because I am not too lazy to read, unlike someone who posted the comment “It has been well and truly written about that 7 is being developed from the Vista code base.”

Windows 7 is NOT being developed from vista. IT IS THE VICE VERSA; Vista was developed from Windows 7.

Microsoft finally decided to listen to us hybrid users who think linux has been more stable than windows for the past 10 years. They decided the new Filesystem, winfs or EXNTFS, would be build off of linux.

The same goes with the way the SVChost, aka the kernel, accesses memory; it is similiar to that of the linux kernel. This, in the end, caused great stability in windows 7 build 7000 – greater than XP!

So, what happened? Why was vista so buggy being based off the new fantastic windows 7 made of linux modules? Microsoft Got greedy; they knew they weren’t done and weren’t going to be completely done with this new hybrid windows/linux version for ten years.

So what did they do? They pulled out the new svchost and the halfway-done features of 7, kept the window dressing, and released it as windows vista. Windows vista was a crossbreed of windows 7 and windows xp; they weren’t done with the core of 7 so they tried to go backwards quickly and throw in architecture of xp to “complete” it – hence all the problems with Vista.

What is vista italian for? View… View of what? View of windows 7!

Also, the ribbon is great and it is innovative, I love it in Office 2007, but the release was more than 2 years ago.

Also Microsoft keep saying that their new OS releases will be dramatically different with completely new user experiences. I wouldn’t say that making it prettier and faster accounts for this.

Don’t get me wrong I actually love Windows, and I will enjoy Windows 7 when it comes out. I love eyecandy, and I like my OS to look just how I want it too. However Microsoft should announce “the same OS basically, just prettier, with some new features and innovations”.

It also doesn’t help that, frankly, Apple is meticulous and, in my humble opinion, just better at UI design. They also know how to make the user actually create an emotional connection to their OS — see Leopard’s Time Machine for an example.

Also, Ubuntu more plug and play than Windows? Maybe if you’re considering older devices that Vista won’t recognize, but that’s an odd statement to make given the fact that most devices are made with Windows in mind and Vista does a good job of snagging drivers for newer devices. Ubuntu’s hardly a threat to Windows at this point, still not ready for the mainstream yet. There’s still a lot of nagging issues, particularly if you’re running a laptop. It’s always fun to put a distro on a new box and see just what hardware it picks up and autoconfigures. It’s always *not* fun to have to google issues, particularly things that break unexpectedly after they’ve worked for so long.

If you want to talk about Windows threats, Google would be at the top of the list.

Yea I agree it’s too soon to judge. :)

WTF?

Q: Why should you upgrade form Vista?
A: Because Vista is slow as shi%.

For once Microsoft is actually thinking about the end user

The whole process took less than 25mins, and wham! internet, cross-platform read/write, my own desktop, printing paper, storing photos…the list goes on.

Like the rest of the world I’m locked into MSWin for a ton of reasons, but this experience has me convinced that the future really doesn’t include MS.

“Microsoft better strap on a pair…”

LOLz

I also quite like Vista, I dont see why MS is so keen to replace it with something new already. I think MS needs to step back and think why they are making a new OS, not just churn out another OS with a few new eye candy features.

Or I may have just read someone’s wish list, I’m not sure.

Loads of people always want to know about new OS releases, so writing about Windows 7 is a way to get some visitors coming :)