LOVE Windows 7

James Colbert said:

Correct on all counts, and let's not forget the failure of hardware vendors to provide decent drivers...

James

This. It's the blame the messenger game. I worked with some bad installs myself; usually replacing some drivers or other software fixed the problem. There were certainly hiccups here and there but nowhere like people exaggerated.

I remember the XP transition very well. Because I hung onto 98SE for years after XP came out. Didn't help that it was quite the time for malware. People who think XP was a magical smooth upgrade from 95 were probably end users not in charge of their own machines (i.e. people who used them at work, leaving the dirty details to us IT staff) or didn't even use computers much at the time.

We didn't get into Vista much and by the time HQ got around to planning a mass rollout 7 was on the horizon and had much glowing press. The only issues we're having with 7 is replacement for obsolete software due to the migration to x64.

Yeah,, let's talk about the whole Activation Scheme introduced with XP.
Man were people in an uproar. Which had a lot to do with so many sticking with Win2000 which was a corporate version of Windows. Or sticking with 98SE on that reason alone.

Yeah, I love those who really don't know the history, or have completely forgotten the transitions back then and how wonerful XP is and they will never change from it to 7 cause of all the bad things they hear about it and from ex-vista users who got burned by the OEM's.

Gotta love it.

evil c said:

Is this posting real?

Yes, and so is Windows 7 and it is Awesome

evil c said:

Is this posting real?

No different from your complaint thread. Everyone has opinions.

smarteyeball said:

gemini365i said:

If many people remember when Vista first rolled out the gate with no sp's, it was really, REALLY bad. That's when I got this PC.

Le'ts not forget that junk that came out called ME. !

JE

For the love of God - Not this sort of thing again


I'm happy you like Seven and all - but Vista and ME bashing has been done to death.

Too true!

Maybe it's just me, but of all to Windows versions I've used, I've never understood by people bashed Windows ME or Windows Vista.

My list (from now, moving back in time) is as follows:

1. Windows 7
2. Windows Vista
3. Windows XP
4. Windows ME
5. Windows 95

Please notice that Windows 98 (either edition) is NOT on the list!