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Originally Posted by djgreedo
What about Vista did you not like? Windows 7 is really just Vista SP2 with a fresh coat of paint. On the 4 computers I have run Windows 7 on it is less stable than Vista (still much more stable than XP, but Vista SP1 is basically impossible to crash unless you try very hard to do so).
Windows 7 isn't more than a fraction faster than Vista according to my usage and some recent online benchmarks (i.e. all benchmarks fall below the threshold deemed noticable by users).
All the love Windows 7 is getting confuses me...because it really is just Vista with some tweaks. Reminds me of the Microsoft ads of people who didn't like Vista using Vista without being told it's Vista and loving it...
The new taskbar is odd...I'm still not sure if I like it. It may depend on how 3rd party developers code their programs to use it. At the moment any app with multiple windows just plain sucks for me.
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Well, let's see, about Vista, here's a rundown of stuff that I didn't like and that irked me:
Heavy ram usage (Win7 uses a fraction of ram to do the very same thing on the same machine)
Menu's were all over the place, took twice as long to get anywhere as with XP (Win7 has jumplists on applications, which are very useful)
Slow, very slow, running on 2gb ram and it still felt like I was wading through chocolate to do anything (Win7 feels fast, it reacts much more quickly, my test of this is to run PS CS3 which was a dog on Vista, and now is very comfortable on Win7)
Annoying UAC, yes I could turn it off, but it still annoyed the hell out of me (Win7's iteration of UAC is far more friendly and interrupts you less)
Crashes (I know you say it's damn near impossible, so I must be the exception to the rule, but I had frequent hard lock-ups on Vista and non-responsive applications. Again, I was using exactly the same machine as I'm using with Win7. Although I must say I have a friend who has no problems at all with Vista, works flawless for him)
The new dock/taskbar I like. It's got the same level of functionality as the OS X variant, but it's far less annoying or distracting.
Yes, Win7 is not much more than Vista Mark 2, or whatever you'd like to call it, but in my experience with it, it's a whole lot better than Vista. I think of it as Win2000 to the previous Windows ME. For me, and I'm no MS lover, Microsoft have corrected a lot of the mistakes they've made in the past couple of years and brought out the operating system that Vista could have been.
Actually I have more of a beef with OS X 10.5 Leopard than I do Vista. I do't know what Apple have done since Tiger, but my machine doesn't seem to like it very much (my ex-machine now, I gave it away).
And Ubuntu continually improves and gets better, apart from wireless, which I've always had a problem with on Linux. That's why I'm dual booting at the moment, apart from Photoshop and Office 2007, there's nothing else I miss from windows when I'm in Linux.