Windows 7's first 100 days: So how were yours?

[whs]

Oh and the WEI seems a bit broken in terms of aero graphics and gaming scores

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What`s wrong with the WEI. Mine seems to report correctly. I assume you know that the Win7 WEI goes up to 7.9 (in lieu of the Vista 5.9). I guess they changed it just to confuse us and now we are comparing apples and oranges.

As in an aero score of 4.4 and a gaming score of 5.5.

I have a similar situation

 

[Frostmourne]

That isn't right - games would be more stressful than Aero. Probably why Aero seems a bit wonky too. SP1 will probably fix this.

 

[Night Hawk]

With the WEI here I end up with 5.9 for the older mid range model video card.

 

[chessian]

I reckon it is a best of all OS.

 

[Nick R]

My Black Friday purchase (Sony laptop) is the first device I've ever used Windows 7 on. Having come from Windows XP on my desktop and never touching Vista (), I must say Windows 7 is very pleasing. I like XP, but Windows 7 is fantastic, and I can't wait to see what more it has to offer by spending more time checking it out.

 

[go0gle]

I've been running Win 7 pro on a old Asus F3JR, which came with Xp pro and I am very happy with Win 7. I skipped Vista altogether...

My F3Jr runs better than it did with XP pro which is amazing.

I've been using Windows since Win 95 and I have to say that i never thought that MS would come up with a stable OS! I was wrong. 7 is rock solid! It just works..

 

[Night Hawk]

I miss those old Duke3D alien blasting days seen with 95 and 98SE here while 7 is on top of the list for desktop versions by far! I think you will that at least 99% of those here at SF as well as other places are actually impressed at how well 7 turned out!

Vista was still quite a bit more stable then the previous versions that came before it there. But definitely lacked quite a bit in the performance area simple from the MS attempt there to fill it up with all new but too many features! 7 will certainly turn things around overall.

 

[garilou]

I did no do much on the new computer that I bought last summer, at discount because it came with Vista, I was waiting to receive my free copy Windows 7.
At last I received it and installed Windows 7 yesterday. Having worked on XP for many years, I must say that right at the beginning I hated Vista.
I first put my adaptation problems in the fact that I not that young anymore, and might have problems adapting to something new.
But as soon as Win7 was installed, some problems I had were automatically solved (like my Home Network between this computer, my older desktop and my laptop that are still on XP)
I still have a few issues, but I am sure this forum will help me.
Anyway, already, a HUGE difference with Vista!

 

[Night Hawk]

It's definitely a hugh difference period when you start going back to the 9x family up until now! Here I started off with pre Dos even into Dos and 3.1 later and moving on through the 9x bunch to XP, Vista, and now 7 with 7 being the top choice!

 

[Intheworldacar]

The best OS!

Well all I have to say is that Windows 7 is the best OS Microsoft has ever made!

 

[Reg]

Have had 3 issues. No Windows Startup sound, 3 or 4 Crashes when coming out of Sleep and Company Logo Shortcut Icons on Desktop are changed to Windows own Global design.

 

[windows7fun]

windows 7 rocks

I installed windows 7(full) yesterday, and I can't be any happier
Windows 7 ROCKS!

 

[Abhishek Ghosh]

I have no problem with 7600 yet.

 

[UpperMe]

I've had Windows 7 x64 Ultimate since 23, October, and without a doubt, it is THE most stable MS OS I have ever used. Yeah, there have been a few little things that took some work, but NO crashes, driver issues or any other major problems. For that matter, I had very little trouble with Vista x64 Ultimate, too. People just need to understand that they can't run these OSs on a weak old machine.

 

[Frostmourne]

Its usually the manufacturer's fault if drivers don't work for laptops - not 7's.

 

[Night Hawk]

That was one of the largest drawbacks seen with Vista was a lack of 3rd party support. MS wanted that support present for 7 however! Most companies have made some adjustments to see that happen.

 

[whs]

In the early days of Vista there was a statistic saying that 45% of the "Vista" problems came from OEM drivers.

 

[Night Hawk]

You would surprized to see how often that was a typical problem seen for XP as well! In fact XP actually saw more of it since Vista support lagged a bit at first.

 

[Cohen]

I've had it since September and it's been great! Really enjoying it and i have had no problems so far.

 

[whs]

I do admit that Windows 7 is a very stable OS but.....
Some drivers are still not available for a large part of current hardware that it not being sold in stores anymore. Windows 7 is not compatible with alot of software that was running fine with Windows Xp that was the reason why we never upgrade to Vista because of that fact and now Windows 7 has the same issue you need to install Microsoft Virtual PC which is also garbage Sun Virtual Box is 10 times better that Virtual PC. That version of Windows XP on the virtual PC is a special version that I cannot run certain software on that either.
XP Mode Is a waste of time.

Windows 7 needs to be revised to fix the compatibility mode it doesn't work correctly
It only looks better but basically thats it

But you have to understand that the fact that old XP programs do not run on Windows7 is not the problem of Win7 - it is the problem of the owners of those programs. If you want to run XP programs forever, you have to run XP forever. I fully understand MS cutting out some of this old stuff because legacy is the biggest road block for progress. But this time they gave you at least XP mode - whatever that does. I never tried it because I come from Vista. And all my Vista programs run perfectly.