Windows 7: Win 7 still tops

Double-checking I guess it's Firefox which is opening it, but it doesnt' open that small in Windows 7.

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Click on it to enlarge in Win8:

I see. I use IE10 so that must make the difference. Thanks for the reply. You had me curious as to why I wasn't experiencing the same problem.

It might be Firefox doing that Greg, one of your posts I saw today had a small Disk Management pic, when I clicked on it, it opened in a new window and was the same size or a little smaller. Have not seen that before on this site.

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Interesting to say the least. It doesn't surprise me though and I'm not sure I agree totally with the authors seemingly "alibi -ish" reasons for the difference. 7 is just more...... "more" to paraphrase Rimmer. (Sorry....inside joke for any Red Dwarf fans)

A user named Steven Sinofsky using his picture posted a comment saying it is all a lot Apple fanboy bunk. Would that be MS WIndows President Steven Sinofsky who left last month? Doubtful, but funny.

The solution for Win8 is to put its explorer improvements into SP2 for Windows 7 and keep it providing the perfect Desktop experience for users who nearly unanimously love it. Give all new Win8 PC's Upgrade rights to Windows 7, or a choice. Only sell Win8 retail or pre-installed to touchscreens. This could be done pretty easily and nearly unnoticed except to insiders. Windows 7 sales would keep climbing, Win8 popularity wouldn't be such a disaster and might shake out with more touchscreens coming online (soon?).

Is MS listening? We'll have to see.

+1 You're using a lot of logic and common sense, Greg. MS doesn't seem inclined to use either when it comes to Windows 8.

I always wondered why they don't just have a "Windows" rather than windows 7,8,9....

It would seem logical to continue to improve on a "perfected" platform and add updates or service packs to include new features and such. I loved XP, but not as much as 7 and I was willing to pay for the new features. If they could take your idea and of course from a profit stand point, have a payment option to activate a major update such as touch screen capabilities (if at all possible to do through downloads), MS could still make a profit, as I'm sure people would be willing to pay $20 or so as opposed to setting up shop on a new OS, but not have to go through a process such as this or vista.

Build an empire and continue to expand it, not split it into factions. Of course you can still conquer other areas, but better to do so as a whole rather than have PC users divided.

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Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, and 8 are all upgrades building on Windows NT 4.0, which in turn is a flavor of Windows alongside others like Windows 9x which has Windows 98 and ME stemming from Windows 95. Windows 7 is to Ubuntu 12 as Windows Vista is to Ubuntu 11 and so forth; we already have what you describe, just under a different version numbering system.

I see. Thanks for the info King.

If this is the current system, then why continue to add flavors to the mix and instead just have one omni-flavor if you will? I know as you said these are all add ins to the NT 4.0, but would it be possible to no longer have to install a new OS, but rather just update from your computer to get the new features that they would have included to a new flavor?

So if windows 7 was the final OS add on, and MS said "we will just continue to add to this flavor like a giant ball of twine, updating and tweaking through downloads and do away with any more future flavors" That way there would no longer be a need for a separate windows flavor.