Windows 7 Will Never Outshine Vista

More likely compainies will be moving to Windows 7 Server editions not the desktop editions now that Server 2008 is near ready. You have to look to where MS does most of it's business with the other software products in addition to Windows itself.

From seeing Vista on until now having SP2 beta on at the present time I found it more stable and far less buggy then XP. It takes somewhat longer there however to see everything finish loading since it was a larger OS to begin with. But the same can be said for newer 3rd party wares as well.

Take a look how fast memory prices fell through! In late 2007 DDR2 2gb dimms were priced at $300-! Now you see a pair of those for about $60-$70 or less. That also having taken into account DDR3 but still seeing a larger then usual price drop.

Win7User512 said:

Honestly, I had driver compatibility issues and not being able to play some of my older games.

But even more than that, it was sloooooooow at moving and deleting files. 7 is faster.

Amazing how long it took Vista to delete a lot of files, considering all it does is mark them 'deleted.'

Maybe so but that does not warrant the type of stick vista came in for.

I totally agree that 7 is faster(and better in every way) than vista by a long shot at not only rendering but also responding and the only reason I am keeping my product key from vista is for the cheaper upgrade to 7.

All's I'm saying is vista did not deserve the type of flak that it received from these so called experts, most of whom probably have an axe to grind with Microsoft.

Imo Vista was better than xp, seven is better than xp and vista. (imo)

Win7User512 said:

You mean how more reasonable the prices became? lol.

In less then a year's time seeing one item drop in prices to less then 33% especially for memory which hold value longer then other things is quite noticable. You expect to see that with video cards more so there since there's a faster turnover as the brands(ATI, NVidia) compete with each other while memory prices usually stay higher for longer periods of time.

RST101 said:

Maybe so but that does not warrant the type of stick vista came in for.

I totally agree that 7 is faster(and better in every way) than vista by a long shot at not only rendering but also responding and the only reason I am keeping my product key from vista is for the cheaper upgrade to 7.

All's I'm saying is vista did not deserve the type of flak that it received from these so called experts, most of whom probably have an axe to grind with Microsoft.

Imo Vista was better than xp, seven is better than xp and vista. (imo)

I hear from people that actually skipped right over XP having upgraded from 2000 into Vista. You couldn't pay them to run XP since they got accustomed to Vista 64bit as well as any 32bit editions.

The gamers on the other hand simply weren't prepared for seeing a larger OS then XP while running older systems plus the unfamiliarity with the changes seen. There were couple of items here at the time not favored in that regard while not running into any major hassles!

In the meantime I've probably only seen Vista installed about 3-4 times plus one repair install following a swap of drives and one problem installation. In the same amount of time with XP that likely would have seen 3 or 4 repair installs and more then a half dozen clean installs while beta testing other things!

You got that one right! Why do you think MS has made the RCs available to the general public and just for those signed up for testing purposes. They look at the feedback for things like bug reports as well as suggestions for improvement on the new features.

Almost 90% of those who complain about Vista never ran it for more then a week total! You hear a lot of muttering under the breath by people who simply stayed on XP and make a lot of noise without ever having any first hand experience with it under various circumstances. As far as larger and slower that was the big complaint on 98SE for those upgrading from 95!

Without anyone paying too much attention 7 is actually larger in size then Vista while seeing the main kernel refined with performance in mind due to the volume of complaints heard about Vista. Vista was however far less buggy in the shorter time it's been out then XP which long awaited the 1,000+ fixes now seen in SP3!

By the way this is being posted while in XP(mode) on the 64bit RC!