Comments on: Why I'm Dumping Vista For Windows 7

By: WWD’s 2009 in Review, Part 2

WWD’s 2009 in Review, Part 2 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:03:01 +0000

[...] big news revolved around operating systems: Both Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Windows 7 were released. Twitter and Facebook updates started to appear in search engines. I reviewed TinyGrab, a simple [...]

By: Cena

Cena — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:29:24 +0000

I dont see any pont to upgrade to 7. I am running Vista and m very happy with it.. today is 7 and tommow will be 14.. huh Microsft is just goona keep on making new windows…

By: Edgar Peters

Edgar Peters — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:28:56 +0000

I cannot believe that Vista users have to pay the same price as XP users for an upgrade to Windows 7. I suffered by upgrading to Vista, my business suffered by the upgrade, and now that Microsoft is dumping it, I have to pay as much to get away from it as those who never upgraded to Vista. Can’t Microsoft get customer service right and give a small credit to those who had confidence in them and upgraded to Vista to begin with?

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:35:36 +0000

so i took my laptop in and it was Norton blocking me from getting online. I thought I had uninstalled all the Norton stuff but I guess not.
Anyway thanks for all your feedback.haha Not that I got any.

By: jo

jo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:47:24 +0000

I have a vista laptop and an xp desktop running on a Linksys wireless router for about a yr now. All of a sudden my Vista laptop is no longer able to detect the wireless router. It says I have internet access w/ my service provider. But I can’t get online. I’ve been on the phone w/ Linksys and my service provider and HP and nobody can figure it out. I’m wondering if some setting just isn’t checked off somewhere or would uninstalling Vista and changing to Windows 7 solve this problem???
I did get online in safemode but I don’t know why and the screen looked strange and mouse moved by itself.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:46:00 +0000

Note: Vista in the second alinea should be Windows 7 ofc.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:44:51 +0000

I have a somewhat different setup than most people have. External DMX6 soundcard from Terratec, 4 video cards, 16gb RAM, 4x 300Gb 10.000RPM disks of which 2 in raid and a shiny 27 inch 2560 x 1440 monitor. Now that might all seem like bragging but i don’t care. Vista 64 bit gave me nothing but trouble. Weirdest stuff every install had his own share of problems which weren’t too easy to solve. From borked sound to mysterious write protection to constantly failing drivers. To make a long story short, Vista is rubbish. What is even more rubbish is that Microsoft dare to even bring that pile of mistakes to the market promoting it as something worth buying.

Well we can see they only value it for 20 euro’s since that is the whopping discount you will get when upgrading to Vista.

Now Windows 7 on the other hand is everything one might have expected from Vista already. Its stable for starters, screens are better grouped all in all a vast improvement. Cheers for that after ripping you customers off making vast abuse of a monopolistic market position.

So concluding my reaction to Sefnerr. It is not a Vista Service Pack with extra $ attached. Windows 7 is what Vista should have been with extra $$$ attached. Vista was just a low exploitation of a psychological fact, namely that the use always tend to blame it on him/herself if technology does not work how it is supposed to be.

By: How Windows 7 Will Cut Computer Energy Consumption

How Windows 7 Will Cut Computer Energy Consumption — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:06:44 +0000

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Why I’m Dumping Vista For Windows 7 « Third Day Web Designs — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:34:54 +0000

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By: sefnerr

sefnerr — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:17:28 +0000

I’ve used various versions of Mac’s OS’s, a few flavors of Linux and every version of windows since win3.0, and MS-DOS before that. AmigaOS anyone? Seems like they all say the next release is the best thing since sliced bread. Very few of these OS releases were revolutionary.

I’ve enjoyed Vista and it’s ran flawlessly on my primary PC for about two years. I also have to say that I run XP as the primary OS on my other PC’s without issue.

I’ve had a short evaluation of Win7 and I don’t see what all the excitement is about. It’s my opinion that Win7 is just another service pack for Vista with $$$ attached. If you hate Vista, I’m not sure what you’ll like in win7.

By: veggiedude

veggiedude — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:58:50 +0000

“Macs are just designed better for many purposes, but I’m glad to see windows close the gap.”

Yea, they are closing the gap. Windows 7 can accommodate 192 GB of RAM.

Snow Leopard can accommodate 16,000 GB of RAM.

We be getting close, that gap is gonna close!

By: Pay4Bugs

Pay4Bugs — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:01:10 +0000

I really do not understand why there was so much hate about XP and Vista. Personally I think there’s nothing intrinsically broken about them, they do what they were designed to do, no more no less.

Macs are just designed better for many purposes, but I’m glad to see windows close the gap.

Now I wonder how hard it’d be to pitch my debugging service to MS7 to find their bugs…..

By: Apres Ski

Apres Ski — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:42:38 +0000

I am a computer instructor and teaching is my bread & butter. I still might have to get Vista, but I’ve stalling that until Win7 came out.

Now, I can put Office 2007 on something and start working out full time. I’ve been learning 2007 in bits & pieces but now it’s time to pedal to the metal . . . ROTFLOL!!!

By: Windows 7 Is Here: What You Need to Know Now

Windows 7 Is Here: What You Need to Know Now — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:30:46 +0000

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By: hauke

hauke — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:17:49 +0000

I can’t understand why so many people are still addicted to Windows. Linux is such a competitive alternative. I’ve switched to Ubuntu two years ago. There is always a period of transition, for sure, but what you get is gorgeous and it’s getting better and better every 6 months! How cool is that.

Microsoft strategy trying to create an artificial buzz about their next version and the huge price cuts are more than a signal, that they know with whom they are competing: free and smart Linux software as well as services delivered by cloud computing onto the browsers…and these browsers are independent of the OS.

So if you’re smart, give linux a try and choose Ubuntu!

Cheers!

By: Meryl K. Evans

Meryl K. Evans — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:18:15 +0000

That’s why I am in no hurry to upgrade WinXP. I just wanted out of Vista and it was worth the risk. Like Simon said, MSFT learned from Vista and tested Win7 much longer. But you know them hackers will be looking for holes to exploit.