Do you see windows7 as an improvement over vista and xp

matt0978 said:

Considering how Windows Seven development was put on hold whilst Vista was rushed out it's hardly surprising Seven is the better OS, it's been over 6 yrs in the making and has had time to mature. See this thread I started Vista was based on Windows 7

See my reply to that thread...

If one takes in to consideration that every launch of every new OS by MS was riddled with bugs and incompatibilities, took at least 3 SP's to get it halfway working, i find it remarkable that windows 7 was 90% compatible and relatively bugfree right of the bat.

People can fill pages with stories how the win 7 kernel is all 'new' and 'rebuild' but MS's history makes that extremely unlikely to put it mildly.

From simple deduction one can easily see that Win 7 is Vista SP3 with a slightly altered GUI and some extra (pretty, but hardly innovative) goodies.

Put against Vista SP2 it performs pretty even keel, Vista is as stable if not more so since the drivers are way more complete for Vista.

So, i say, 7 is a mild improvement over Vista in some lesser important but very visible departments. Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder rationality goes overboard and 7 gets hyped to the sky.

I'd install it, if it were next to free ($20 about) as a paid SP for Vista.

Other then that i don't see the point.

I can't blame you... you don't know how different they are inside :)

Chappy said:

I guess the ones who are disappointed with W7 because they think there's just a few UI changes and tweaks really haven't read about (or understand) the changes to the core of the system, and are only relying on what they "See".
There have been MAJOR kernel upgrades that make 7 more stable and secure over both older OS's, and so many other function changes that are too numerous to list right now. Maybe you guys should find out what's changed under the hood and not just at the paint job before making those statements.

I agree. 7 is definitely better, although Vista runs very well here. If I didn't have a technet subscription I wouldn't be in a great hurry to upgrade if I had to pay full price.

Hummmm … Comparing to XP …

M$ has forgot there’s a difference in the display of, and the purpose, for Icons and Thumbnails ..
( I can’t use my customized Irfanview Icons on my desktop )
You can’t customize the file type R click context menus anymore ..
You can’t create new task bars and park them on any edge of your screen(s)..
Email, Photo Editing, and Movie Making programs have been removed ..
Last I looked, Shrink doesn’t work because Defrag doesn’t work ..

But Hey .. It’s pretty and has some gadgets and toys to play with ..
(but themes, gadgets and toys can be added to XP)

I got a new Vista computer and "upgraded" it to XP MCE …
Sure glad I did that while I can.

I can’t figure out what M$ is up to .. (besides making money) ..
And what Ya’ll are getting so excited about.