Windows 7 Review

Its just vista with less suckage.

If you are on Vista now, install this the day it hits the streets. It is a massive improvement over vista.

If you are on XP, the choice is not as clear cut. If your computer came with Vista premium and you downgraded to XP to make it work, then you probably want to try windows 7 on it.

If you are on XP because your machine shipped with Vista Basic, or has a sticker claiming to be "Vista Capable", you'll probably want to stay on XP until you buy your next PC.

If your machine pre-dates vista or you downgraded to make XP apps work again, you're going to be on XP until you buy a new machine and get rid of that last XP only application.

If you are one of the smart ones that dumped windows during the whole Vista mess, then sit back and enjoy the show. It should be an entertaining Q4 watching the "windows faithful" scurry around trying to make things work again.

Originally Posted by lusid

If your machine pre-dates vista or you downgraded to make XP apps work again, you're going to be on XP until you buy a new machine and get rid of that last XP only application.

Those people should just get pro for the virtualization feature.

Speaking of which, is it true Windows 7 has touchscreen capability? I seem to remember that being one of its major selling points.

Hi..
oops ...
Some bugs still in vista
the new version means Window 7 is better.
Effective in all applications..
specially office documentation.

Hi Friends,
Personally Window 7 is great .
Lots of change in graphics.
clear visions , coll themes and best contrass.
All applications are fast to use..
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Originally Posted by Logarithms

Speaking of which, is it true Windows 7 has touchscreen capability? I seem to remember that being one of its major selling points.

It worked great on my old tablet PC, if only briefly. The touch features on the tablet in w7 were much better than the touch feature in xpte. It is supposed to support multi-touch and gestures, but since nobody builds displays yet that enable those features we will have to wait and see.

A cautionary tale regarding my tablet PC:
I installed it to try the touch features, but I only had 768M of ram. It installed smoothly and with minimal driver fiddling I had everything working but the card reader. however, w7 really tries to keep 50% physical ram free so even with no apps running there was massive swap file activity. after a few days idling on my desk the hard drive was toast.

1gig ram really is the bare minimum. You'll need 2gig to do much more than test the installer.

I have been using Windows 7 for at least a few months now. Its nothing earth shattering, but it's stable and does what it is suppose to do while looking better than Vista or XP ever did. The UI is definitely a lot faster. Duno if it's worth spending money on, but if you are going to buy a computer now I suggest waiting until Oct 22 so that it comes with Windows 7.

will vista compatable software and hardware work with windows 7?

thanks

Hey Jsuperducky.
My name is Glennwaugh I read your post but I think windows 7 is not good
for me because of there must be 512 mb ram but I have only 128 mb ram
so it is useless for me.
Thanks.

I like it so far, I had tried the beta for a few weeks but ended up back with XP Pro, but the OEM final seems to have fixed the few issues I had. Overall I think they have a winner, its been stable so far and Im hoping it will entice some of my clients to finally take the plunge and upgrade since its getting hard to find new machines with XP downgrade rights. Vista looks to be remembered as this decaded Windows ME. Im begining to sense a pattern though...

Windows 3.0 (crap), windows 3.11 (good), windows 95 (crap), windows 98 (good), windows ME (crap), windows xp (good), windows vista (crap), windows 7 (good)....

Originally Posted by grapeape

Windows 3.0 (crap), windows 3.11 (good), windows 95 (crap), windows 98 (good), windows ME (crap), windows xp (good), windows vista (crap), windows 7 (good)....

I think you mean: windows 98 (crap), windows 98 se (good)

Originally Posted by grapeape

I like it so far, I had tried the beta for a few weeks but ended up back with XP Pro, but the OEM final seems to have fixed the few issues I had. Overall I think they have a winner, its been stable so far and Im hoping it will entice some of my clients to finally take the plunge and upgrade since its getting hard to find new machines with XP downgrade rights. Vista looks to be remembered as this decaded Windows ME. Im begining to sense a pattern though...

Windows 3.0 (crap), windows 3.11 (good), windows 95 (crap), windows 98 (good), windows ME (crap), windows xp (good), windows vista (crap), windows 7 (good)....

3.0 - good
3.11 - good
95 - groundbreaking in it's day
NT4 - great
98 - so-so
98SE - good
ME - BAD
2000 - excellent
xp - great
2003 server - bleh
vista - muh.. hated it
7 - so far much, much better than vista

How is Windows 7 different from Vista or XP?

Hi all,
Generally:
Faster, less requirements to run, new features.

Features: "Compare" Slide one window all the way to the side and it will cover the screen. Same for another window. Good for comparing and swapping files.

Different interface with different task-bar.

A few more control panel options.
Overall, it's really just a major update of Vista. Such as Mac OS X Snow Leopard vs. Snow Leopard.

Hi I am Harry.
I am happy with my vista. I am not blaming on the windows 7 as I am using the windows vista but it is a good and as compared to vista. I have did not used it but heard lots of about it and seen too. Well Best of luck to users.
Thanks.

Hello,

Windows 7 is not quite a "Vista service pack." It does share a lot of the core tech, and was clearly designed to fix nearly every bad thing anyone said about Vista. Which ironically puts the demon that it was trying to exorcise at its heart. What that means is that Windows 7 is what Vista should have been in the public eye a solid OS with plenty of modern eye candy that mostly succeeds in taking Windows usability into the 21st centaur but it doesn't daringly innovate or push boundaries or smash down walls or whatever verb meets solid object metaphor you want to use, because it had a specific set of obligations to meet, courtesy of its forebear.

Windows 7 is the biggest step forward in usability since Windows 95. In fact, over half of what makes it better than Vista boils down to user interface improvements and enhancements, not so much actual new features.

Windows 7 brings back a sense of a tightness and control that was sometimes missing in Vista there's a technical reason for this relating in part to the way graphics are handled moments where I've felt like I wasn't in control of my PC have been few and far between, even during the beta and release candidate periods. The more chaste User Account Control goes to that the frequency with which it interrupts you was grating in Vista, like standing under a dripping faucet. But it actually works as Microsoft intended now, with more security, since you're less likely to repeatedly hammer "OK" to anything that pops up, just so it leaves you the hell alone.

Thanks.