Direct X 11 will be compatible with Vista so I'm not sure why this is listed.

Items 3, 5, 6 and 7 are not really selling features if you ask me. Yet another advertisement in disguise.

Thanks Tom's.

Are you sure!?!

I think they are focusing mostly on XP users. People who upgraded to Vista already probably do not need as much convincing to get Win 7.

Sorry for double post, but this seems like a nice feature:

I wasn't going to get Windows 7, but now that I know it will have Internet Checkers I think I will have to rethink my decision!

fck who will play Internet Backgammon, Internet Spades, and Internet Checkers ??

I would like to see proof for #1.

i'll have to wait and see benchmarks before I believe a MS marketing ploy that says games will run better than on XP lol

Number 3 is useless to all Steam users. In fact, if it starts to implement Live in too much of an integrated fashion, it could conflict with Steam, much as Live already does.

Direct x 11 will be reason enough for me alone. Just need the cards now (ati)?

Make it run Descent and I'm in!

I am happy with my Vista Ultimate 64bit. "Don't fix it if it isn't broken"

win 7 is more optimized for multi-core systems. that's the reason why most games will play better on win 7 than on XP.

im not liking the use of the work should and fabulously

Windows 7 boots up and shuts down faster then any previous Windows OS.


That's pretty huge if you ask me - why did they not mention that?

He forgot to mention that the Xp machine was running a GeForce 7200 and the Win7 machine a GeForce 280GTX.

As long as it uses that bloated winsxs directory it's still broken. Here would be my reasons to switch.
*WTV conversion works.
*TRIM for SSDs.
*winsxs replaced by virtualization (like it was supposed to be).

Show me the [del]money[/del] benchmarks.

They said the same thing about Vista and then again about 64bit OS'...

Will we be able to play Full Throttle too? Still on Xp till I see Crysis on it and M$ Dosbox.

"The top third-party games, services, and international versions of games have been tested in Windows 7"

I would like to know how considering PunkBuster has refused to offer support for Windows 7 until it goes retail. Every game I've got that I play online requires this to run, and as far as I can tell, Even Balance has yet to comment on anything in public since last year.

Well you took the fun out of who ever got to say that first in the thread.
Well It is understandable that Win7 will put better use of your hardware at least the newer and newer ones hell xp thinks my E8400 is a Xeon III. Really i only need 1 reason. Continued support by major company's for drivers etc is enough to make me finally change my main os from xp.

Find downloaded games, Don't place shortcuts in the taskbar?
When microsoft releases an os, everytime one of the biggest new features is search. Its no wonder we lose files because every version of windows finds a new place to put stuff, but they leave the old place intact Just in case.
Either the design team is really bad at misplacing files or they are over engineering a simple problem.

The author of this "news" story, Marcus Yam, seems like a sellout to me....

I'd prefer a list of features and not regurgitated marketing material that I can find on Microsoft's website. Thanks.

Sounds like this will be the best MS OS release to date.

Yeah, I don't plan to go all crazy for Win 7. I'll get the 64-bit version (hey, college CS dept. gave me 32-bit vista for free, stingy for not giving us 64-bit ^_^) but I'm not going to go and replace all my Vista installs with win 7, nor would I recommend it.

At it's core, win 7 is the same as vista. The UI will be different, and while I think it's fine it is yet to be seen if the average user will actually care .

I'm hardcore all the time.

Sounds decent, I like the games explorer idea.

"Feel free to move to Windows 7 because whatever you're playing now should work fabulously in Windows 7."
Then why AION doesnt work ?

to me it is true, this is the best os i´ve ever used. even my pc is not top tier, it can play almos every new game with full detail, even better than in xp.

Yeah, I've never understood the big emphasis on Search functions. I mean, is there a large demographic that saves there files to a random location or something? Perhaps they put everything on the C:\Root and then can't find it?

Somehow, I still think clicking an icon is faster than clicking the search bar and then typing the name of the program I want to run.

I use search maybe once a year, and that's only when a patch unpacks files and doesn't tell me where they went.

Sure Windows 7 is superior to Vista but I don't think most will have any real reason to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7.

As for game performance I really would like to see you back that up with benchmarks. I'm not doubting it I just want to see how much difference it really is. The test should include XP,Vista, and Win7.