Win7 SP1 released to public

David Ben Yosef said:

Night Hawk said:

120gb 5,400rpm drive and an 11hrs. total to get everything done!

Don't you just LOVE jobs like that? Grrrrrr!!!

I did the exact same thing for my little cousin when her Vista laptop crashed the OS. Windows 7 had just come out, so I did a clean install of that for her, instead of that garbage bloated Vista OS. That's by far the worst OS Microsoft has ever come out with. I hated that OS right from the get go. The only thing I liked was the new Aero, but other than that it really stunk. I can't begin to tell you how many of my family members systems I had to change from Vista to Windows 7.

I won't install Vista for anyone now. I don't care who it is.

I still don't understand how XP takes you longer to install than Windows 7. XP has always installed faster than 7 for me. Every single time. <scratches head>

Depends on installation methods used! If everything is all together such as XP having now seen the last SP included on the last available cds the only extra time is seen with the last of the updates released.

As far as which is best is matter of opinion while MS made the mistake of setting the miniimum requirement too low with Vista not that it wasn't a working OS but specs were set too low for OEMs who typically were seeing 512mb, 1gb premade over the 2-3gb better advised minimum.

Personally I found Vista far more stable and hardly any blue screens while with XP those were all too common. Unfortunately SP3 came too late since by then I was looking forward to examing what 7 would bring as well as waiting to test it once available.

Initially I thought 98 was a slow turtile until finally replacing 95. Ran that one for years eventually second with XP SP1 onto SP2.

7 however is MS looking at performance for the average desktop having far more OEM driver support available at the retail launch over what had been unfortunately for Vista but even worse for the 64bit XP!

So far no complaints with 7 and having it loaded up with anything and everything even seeing smooth results with SP1 on. Stable and still responsive making it the overall champ as far as Windows is concerned.

Long live "7"!!!

David Ben Yosef said:

Night Hawk said:

As far as which is best is matter of opinion...

I couldn't agree more. For me, Windows 7 reigns supreme.

You won't hear any disagreement on that from me!

Rhammstein said:

I still believe the majority of issues with Vista, certainly the support issues, aren't all on Microsoft. I think the entire industry was a complete joke at the time, getting working drivers was simpler on linux. There's a lot of blame to be thrown around for Vista, because it's an epic failure, but at least half if not more of it can be attributed to an industry that cares for nothing more than the bottom line, period.

There was quite a bit of turmoil at first once Vista was out and people where stuck without updates available at first for the then new version. 3rd party support sadly lacked for addon devices as well as your main hardwares!

With MS managed to pull some strings in wanting driver support readily available and did more to see the beta and RC releases more widely known by getting people to look at the new promos. It was still fortunate that 7 and Vista have the close compatibility however over what would typically be seen when each new version came out in the past including Vista where new drivers were always in need as well as newer versions for each software.

Talk about why businesses are slow at upgrading retooling all softwares with any newer version isn't in their bottom line budget at times. This is mainly where MS had focused on the previous versions while focus has shifted for 7 and next to come when looking at the typical user.

Now for 7 MS is pressing to see support and getting back on a schedule and why SP1 has gone from beta to final without a lengthy wait but in a reasonable time frame.