Comments on: Windows 7 News

By: DZ

DZ — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:31:24 +0000

I use both Ubuntu and Windows 7… i will agree with the user that say that Ubuntu is more customizable that Windows 7. I will also agree that Microsoft better watch themselves when it comes to Linux cause they are emering as a viable option to Windows. Let me say this though. I test OS’s from beta to RC to release… I did this with Windows 7. It runs 10X’s better than my XP ever thought of doing without any errors. XP and Windows 7 were pretty close in performance… not sure whether the guys above was making a guess on how he thought it would perform, but Win7 moves significantly better than XP did for me anyway. Ubuntu is always my first choice in OS’s just because I love Linux… but becuase I work from home on a VPN that requires windows… I always have to have a windows box up and going, but Win7 is a great OS reagardless and if you have decent equipment (on the machine i run it on.. sinle processor, 2.8 HT with 2 Gig of RAM) then it should run really easily for you… setup isn’t that bad either… and there is not that much different between XP and Win7 that I have noticed.

By: sknifer

sknifer — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:38:23 +0000

Windows 7 is actually faster than Windows XP. Try downloading the latest Beta from demonoid. I am very satisfied with it. In fact I am using the OS now while typing this comment. I never had any crashes and I get to use all the features of Windows 7 Ultimate i.e. aeropeek, super taskbar, etc

By: Smug

Smug — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:34:24 +0000

Windows 7 should fail miserably. No company worth their salt is running Vista and they won’t choose 7 either. A new GUI and taskbar and a revised UAC that’s it. This may impress the kiddies and mommies but isn’t that what Apple is for?
Twice the memory requirements (stressing 32 bit architecture) and ~15% slower accross the board compared to XP. No new file system, the registry is still crap and UAC can be substituted with DropMyRights. All that is bad in XP still exists and Vista/7 just adds more bad. Any “computer professional” who runs Vista/7 as their primary OS is not someone I’d hire.
Windows is scared to drop XP as Linux is truly coming of age and they know it. Many Governments are making the switch. Mark my words XP will be around longer than 2012.

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By: BillGates

BillGates — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:26:41 +0000

Windows7 is slower then XP so why would any XP user want to upgrade to Windows7, Windows7 is only a little faster then Vista and a lot slower then XP, well thats what my benchmark tools tell me.

By: garbanzo

garbanzo — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:08:37 +0000

Will they convince Windows XP users to switch to Windows 7?

this depends on whether or not XP users get a chance to use windows 7. as an (ex) XP fanboy, i installed the win7 beta, and was skeptical at first. i never used vista, not for two minutes on any machine, so i started fresh.

but that was over a month ago, and it’s been weeks since i booted to my XP partition. i’m officially converted!

win7 has a lot going for it. once it hits the shelves and people start using it, i think there will be a lot of upgrades…

By: Jojo

Jojo — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:57:40 +0000

There are supposed to be 6 variations of Window7 but only two (Home and Professional) will be available retail. The other versions can be accessed thought some sort of downloadable upgrade.

With 6 different versions, it doesn’t seem much different from the scheme that MS created for Vista. Windows 7 seems to be merely Vista SP2 with little in the way of major new functions or internal design.

But I’ll probably have to upgrade from XP since XP is getting a bit old now.

By: gokudomatic

gokudomatic — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:37:54 +0000

What Microsoft did still not learned was to allow to customize deeply Windows like a linux distribution does.
For instance, there are no Windows version that can do the same config as the ubuntu on my laptop-server (no GUI except terminal, minimal installation for LAMPP/emule as service, firewall, minimal cpu usage, minimal power consumption).
Windows still lacks modularity.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:21:17 +0000

I’ve never been a fan of actual upgrades for the operating system, they always just seemed a bit buggy to me as compared to a full clean install. So the idea of a reduced upgrade pricing from XP with the ability to do clean installs is welcomed.

As for the fewer editions, I like that as well. Vista Basic was a joke when compared to the features of the other editions, but some older computers required it or Home Premium with all the extras and eye candy turned off just to get them to run Vista. Hopefully Win7 will be able to come through on the better use of system resources.