Comments on: Windows 7: Great for Vista users, a huge fail for XP fans

By: Idiotbuster

Idiotbuster — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:29:50 +0000

this is the crappiest article I ever read… basically u are saying it is not good because xp users will need to adjust to a new interface…whatever

By: Uzer

Uzer — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:07:56 +0000

Windows 7 = Epic fail.

Stick with XP.

I laugh at the guy above me…the guy who thinks he knows something about DirectX.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:32:49 +0000

Hey Guys.

I Just wanna say im current using Windows 7, and after my extremely long years of XP, was looking for that something better in 7, and to tell you the truth ive got it! Windows 7 has totally blown me away, for once everything i touch on this operating system works perfect, smoothly & fast. I believe that EVERYONE should give this a go simply because it actually works! Ive been reading up on people’s thoughts and they all agree that this is a much better improvement than vista and a big big BIG upgrade from the good old XP. Hopefully if microsoft can keep this OS good to how it is in its beta at the moment then we have a winner! But for now, im enjoying my time with the beta… :D

Oh and Direct X 11 DOES make a difference on OLD graphics cards!

By: Leno

Leno — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:18:03 +0000

Man, gotta love all the MS fanboys out there. Gaysoft has been roughting its users for to long, and now they are finally getting some good old medicine. Sure Windows 7 will be a great success, why? Because MS realized that they cannot create mediocre products, but i remember this is not an isolated incident windows 2000 was bugged to all F*(^ and so was ME, gay edition. Windows 98 also got reamed (by some) over win 95 but people forget and move on. Even in its beta and early stages XP was a little volatile before its first service pack. People just don’t take crap anymore like they used to. Originally Apple didn’t plan to run directly against MS in competition as doing it in the past led to /fail, however, due to the unsatisfying release of vista, some other products were able to lay siege on the market. People are actually considering other products. Its wonderful, people using linux, unix and other alternatives… However that still only accounts for 7% of the market.

Look give me a product that i can game on anyday, but ill use my imac and macbook for all other functions anyday.

By: Nkosi

Nkosi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:58:40 +0000

ignore my grammer and spelling, english is my second language.

By: Nkosi

Nkosi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:56:06 +0000

Wow, John got emotional there but I gotta hand to him though. He’s right. Vista was a defective clone of Windows with Xp’s bits stitched on. Windows 7 is everything I wanted from vista and more. New interface, fast loading, vast FUNCTIONING drivers and driver pathways, stable performance etc. Vista for me was a complete nightmare for me. My usb ports wouldn’t work because the driver pathways in the regedit were wrong so I couldn’t get an internet connection or use most if not all my peripherals. Win 7 came with all my drivers pre-installed and working perfectly with any additional installs. I’m so impressed i think i’ll buy it on the day of release. Welldone MS.

By: john

john — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:10:44 +0000

I don’t blame you guys because of the way microsoft has been sneaky before but they have now realized their sneakiness will only go so far.

By: John

John — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:07:39 +0000

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 DavidB who posted the comment above “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 the things of xp to “complete” it – hence all the problems with Vista.

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

Stop being so jaded and commenting poorly on things you know nothing about!

By: Cleon

Cleon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:06:01 +0000

I am a windows programmer and i am currently testing the Beta of Windows 7. My first impression of it is that it is great! (Compared to Vista at least). The interface is a totally different thing from XP and frankly i think its just as or more intuitive. MS has done a much better job of this than they did with Vista. My hardware is 1GB RAM, 128MB Video Card, 100GB HDD, 2.0 GHz CPU and windows 7 runs almost as fast as XP did. I havent timed it but it think the boot time is around 28 – 33 seconds also, i never had to install any of my drivers from CD. Windows 7 recognized the hardware and whatever drivers it didnt have, it got through windows update.

I am currently playing some games and writing small programs to deploy on other operating systems (2K, XP, Vista etc..) to see how they hold up.
Overall i think Windows 7 is great and consumers are likely to get more bang for their buck than they could ever get with Vista.

Great Article Dave but maybe you should try the beta before you begin to give your opinion.

By: conanchuck

conanchuck — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:07:51 +0000

I install windows 7 and Vesta on new built computer Vesta sucks am sorry has a lot of issue in lots of company’s.
I install winows 7 and it is better then Vesta but not as great as Windows XP.
Now I heard that Windows 7 was base on server 2008 it’s not I wish it was then it would rock.
Vesta and Windows 7 needs to work with the drives and third party program to make a living.

Here is some of the issues-

Good
• The view of the windows 7 looks outstanding it so detail
• Internet download files is awesome with in seconds
• Web page start is ok
• Boot Up is better then Vesta but not as good as XP
• I like the tool bar very nice Just like server 2008
• Media decoder major issue
• The shut down has been slow but faster then Vesta
Bad
• The rate the computer doesn’t work at all I think it’s the Bois upgrade?
• The Internet Explorer has a few issue start up and refresh
• Network is a little too open need to set the Domain then should see the network
• Install the windows took for ever almost 5 hours Geeeeee
• Drivers support Microsoft got to work with the people on this one
• Clean disk is fast but is it cleaning all is says?
• Defragment very long time for a new install it should be defragment when finished install
• Windows 7 has a few lock up for the windows update
• The refresh is faster but not stable
• USB drives Windows Explorer will not start up
• The down load depends on the web site for down load speed