WHAT THE HELL IS WINDOWS 7????

Okay, i've been out of the software readings for a while, BUT I'm supposed to be a computer junkie and have been wondering what kind of crack people were smoking when they kept talking about windows 7 today. I have just realized now that vista has been replaced??

Why, what, when, how??????

So what's different with windows 7 and how do people find it? is it a total re-design? Is my Vista Ultimate basically obsolete?

Wow, nice rock you've been hiding under .

How's the weather on the moon these days?

hmmm ive had a play with windows 7, it looks and feels like vista in many ways, though its a lot more efficient, fast boot times ect

vista is pretty good but the lame man has been told its rubbish so MS cant be bothered to do SP 2 , 3 ect as the name is ruined they just make windows 7 whcih has be recived with open arms by most

vista is still a good OS and will be useful for a long time

im looking forward to 7 though as finally MS may have a of the starting block good OS lol

They kept bring out service packs and for xp, so they will hopefully continue to update vista. I've only just bought the fricking think.

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but as to the post in all seriousness its gonna be like going from win98 to win98se "computer junkies" aren't going to know the difference unless they read the label. Were as those of us who insist on doing what was not intended with our computers will swear by it. I hope, M$ is still completely capable of FUBARing it again in which case we'll compare it to win00 or winME.

Whats Crack?

Vista is not a good OS .

Performance is slower than XP across the board .
http://www.infoworld.com/article/0 [...] -xp_6.html

The difference is mostly due to the copy protection [HDCP] which means vista handles data much more than it actually needs to.
Vista has been a huge marketing flop for obvious reasons . Business doesnt want it because its not a productivity improvement . Gamers didnt want it because it reduced fps .
MS even set up the Mojave experiment to try and convince us all that vista is fast . All they proved is that people will believe anything if you tell it to them enough times, and that MS will go to any lengths to sell product .
A simple benchmark vs XP would have told the true story ... so why did MS waste so much money ? YOUR money btw since its going to be you the consumer who pays in the end .

Windows 7 appears to be the core of Vista without any of the HDCP , plus a whole lot of enhancements .

Notice that netbooks ship with XP .. its because Vista cant run well on that hardware ... but Windows 7 can .
It will fly on real hardware .

WOW! This made my day. I'v been working on CAD models the entire day and this was the first thing I say on the home page after reading the news.

Well, I prefer XP, but Vista isn't ME

I liked XP better because it ran slightly faster on my computer... however the fact the Vista x64 lets me use all 8GBs of RAM makes up for it. (Gotta hate XP x64)

No it's not.

Since my xp is running like dog ***, despite that fact that it's virus free and defragged, i'll probably go ahead and set up windows 7, god i hate doing this crap!

exactly.

it's all about maintainance of the system........

i remember not more than 1 year ago.....i had a pentium 3 @797mhz CPU packed with intel d815 board with a IBM video card with 16mb vga and single 512mb sd ram @100fsb and a 16gb IDE (mostly crashing) ........DON'T JUS LAUGH AWAY

...it raned XP like power house.. every 1 was jus speachless.. not even a core duo could run like that it was all superfast... it had de best performance of xp potential i ever had... and reason.. it's still unknown 2 me... my dualcoes and quads does'nt run like that on x64..

i ran DOOM3 @1024 @low quality and @800 without glitches!!!!! when i ripped a ASUS MX4000 128mb AGPx4-2

If you have 3gb ram, stay vista until 7 is worked out. it is never just a release, it is for the quick and crazy to figure out.

Then after the sp1 or equal, install 7 anytime, the 3gb is suddenly twice what it used to be according to the GDI resource changes. For me again, seeing encoding time or any work compiling, binary or REAL things to do with a computer stopped at a prescott HT, and vista premium, and above benchmark still showing no signs of intelligence on earth, I would only be humoring a new os for the gdi stuff, in which I am not having any problems with anyway, on highest settings for every hog video wise.

I do recommend vista premium or greater, it was down to 100 bucks in some places....

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