Or Windows Server fanboys? Or Windows for Workgroups fanboys? Or even, dare I say it, Windows ME fanboys?! Microsoft should do the world a favor and offer free upgrades to 7. We're both relying on anecdotal evidence here, but I have yet to meet a single person that likes Vista. Please explain to me the advantages Vista has, and for every advantage Vista has, I'll offer five major regressions. I don't automatically hate Microsoft or Microsoft products.
I'm not a fanboy. Vista however is a terrible, terrible OS, and even the people I talk to who run Vista, do so for the above three reasons I stipulated. I'm heading out the door, and I will respond with regressions, however for your supposed improvements:. XP allows you to run as a non-admin, and it is easier in XP.
You can still elevate permissions, in a far less annoying fashion. Vista's UAC is a failure, and that is why it is greatly improved in Windows 7. If you are surfing the web in IE, you fail.
I'm running the Vis. I've been supporting Windows since the 3. Vista is a bloated, useless, smelly turd of an OS and will go the way of Windows ME as soon as 7 is released. I have not seen one business or serious user adopt Vista. In fact a sizable portion of my jobs were removing Vista to install XP when Vista first rolled out of it's dark and smelly cave.
I use Vista for the same purpose I use Sarah Palin, an instant intelligence test. If you accept eith. Are you sure they run it because they like it or because it came pre-installed and then grew to like it? Yes, it matters. It matters a lot. People who bought Vista and installed it because they liked it are the sorts of people who might upgrade to Windows 7.
People who run Vista because it came preinstalled and they couldn't be bothered to request a downgrade to XP are similarly unlikely to spend the money, time, or effort to upgrade to Windows 7. Why are you so angry about it? Are you that upset that there are people who like Vista or who might like Windows 7? Seriously, what's the problem? I got vista on a new laptop when it first came out, and yes pre-SP1 it was pretty dire.
I nearly downgraded to XP, but held out for SP1. Now I'm perfectly happy with Vista, and I'm planning on upgrading my XP desktop at home to the 7 beta this weekend.
I don't try and ram vista down everyone's throat, but it does annoy me when I hear such uninformed vista bashing. Vista isn't perfect a. That sure seems like DX10 to me. Vista is slower, has a broken driver model, UAC is broken, configuration dialogs have been relocated for no apparent reason, the start menu is a disaster in usability, and simple tasks have now been changed to multi-step processes that take more time.
Computers are supposed to enable us. GUIs are supposed to make life simpler and more eff. If you can't find out what it is that vista is doing in the background, then you aren't much of a software engineer.
Could it be that the last minute problems of Vista SP2 are just Plus more and more file sharing networks are downloading Windows XP ISO images at new records for downloads to get rid of Vista and replace it with a pirated version of XP because they cannot buy a copy of XP except from certain vendors. Not only that but a lot of people are waiting for ReactOS [reactos. So they can have a free and open source Windows alternative that runs native Windows XP drivers and software. Even, gasp, Linux!
Plus more and more Macs are being sold and converted from PC users. Now all those P4's are coming of age and a Mac will run your olden programs as well as new ones for both platforms. In the mean time, the economy is making people look for lower-end which has Ubuntu on netbooks, gOS on Wal-Mart's stuff or allows Apple to beat Dell in mid and high-end good looking too computers especially business. A few years ago, most geeks I know were still in Windows XP land whereas most the same people now run Linux.
Since students are considered the most tech-savvy in most households where non-geeks live , most likely the parents are following their lead even if it's just to get iChat to work. CIO's and CFO's are actively looking for cheaper alternatives where before you could spend multiple thousands in server licensing without anybody asking. Also the current and incoming geek-class server admins have knowledge and experience with alternatives where before server admins were sometimes nothing but glorified accountants that worked on a really good spreadsheet in Excel once.
When college students and faculty come to my desk and ask how do they save or print their document in Word , that's a pretty clear indication that the Word UI is complex and complicated.
Inclined to understatement much? I'd say that BSD being on about 1 out of every 12 PCs sold worldwide qualifies as more than "relatively successful", but maybe it's just me. Are you sure it wasn't just part of the firehose? You'll have to look and see if you're on index2.
It's most likely that you're on index You mean they finally have made their Apple OSX software copying machine a little better? Newer versions of OSX run faster on the same hardware than the older versions. Is that at last, finally also true of Windows?
How does Windows 7 run on a vintage computer compared to OS There may be more comments in this discussion. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead.
Do you develop on GitHub? You can keep using GitHub but automatically sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with this tool so your projects have a backup location, and take advantage of SourceForge's massive reach. The folks who broke the launch details and dates of previous Service Packs for XP and Vista have Microsoft's latest internal schedule. Can Microsoft get it out before Windows 7? According to the new schedule, just barely.
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted. Full Abbreviated Hidden. More Login. They have to.. Score: 4 , Insightful. Share twitter facebook. Re:They have to.. Score: 5 , Funny. Since Windows 7 is Vista SP3. Parent Share twitter facebook. Score: 5 , Insightful. Score: 5 , Informative. The quick launch and taskbar now intermingles and can be greatly customized by the user.
First and foremost, device manufactures DO NOT have to program this in order for it to work it is just an option for direct interaction. Access all the functions of your devices from one screen. We have a domain controlled work laptop. We come home and want to access our personal media now managed by libraries and printers. This solves those problems, while keeping company data safe. Default printers change automatically, depenting on what network you connect to. Remote bluetooth control of media player, via a win mobile phone.
Demo showed a second faster cold boot over Vista. Read the rest of this comment More that a Service Pack? Score: 2 , Insightful. Now diff your list 7 and Vista vs Windows 7 and XP. Finally count the things that were promised for Vista and compare this number to the-above. And then you'll see why Windows 7 is a service pack.
Score: 4 , Informative. Re: Score: 2. Why do people keep referring to Win 7 as a service pack for Vista? With that logic I could say XP is a service pack of I think people keep forgetting history when it comes to MS operating systems. Comment removed Score: 5 , Funny.
Comment removed based on user account deletion. Score: 2. I wish it would flame. Analogy time! If small changes are incremental, what are big changes called? Score: 5 , Interesting. I think you've missed the meaning of the word "evolutionary". I would consider XP similar to a "service pack" to They're almost the same OS, in much the same way that Vista and 7 are almost the same. If 2 operating systems are designed to use the exact same drivers, they may as well be the same OS.
Re: Score: 2 , Informative. By the same logic, Windows 7 is a service pack, and direct descendant, of the original Windows NT. If you were to look at the codebase, I would wager that Vista and Win7 are incredibly close. Re: Score: 3 , Insightful. The majority of the overhaul is a interface to add a nice KDE-esque taskbar.
Re: That silly staged sig Score: 2. I disagree. Windows was good in some ways, but it was not a consumer OS. XP brought all the needed functionality and compatability that was needed to make it a consumer OS. Windows 's video drivers ran slower than XP's, so it was not as gamer friendly. Lots of older apps would not run in Win2K, but they will in XP because of the extra compatability layers. IIRC they were planning to make 2K be the release th.
On the server side that's exactly what they are calling it, the server release based on the Win7 codebase is to be called Windows Server R2. Yet people cheer at Windows 7 like it wasn't so. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Alex Dawson. Between 10th, and today, 14th, Windows Update has installed more updates. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.
I have the same question 3. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Edit 2: I love system restore. Saturday, December 6, AM. Ronnie - Thanks for the recommendation. I've tried unplugging all USB devices, external hard drives, secondary internal hard drives, and internal optical drives. I have even tried disabling all non-essential built-in periphereals in the BIOS e.
I am using the latest Vista drivers and disabled my antivirus. Ronnie Vernon MVP wrote: Hi You also need to make sure that all of the installed hardware is using the latest Vista compatible drivers. Saturday, December 6, PM. I'm not sure of the space requirements. I have about a gigabytes free on my C drive so have not looked at the space requirements. I am expecting the same problem on my Windows Vista Ultimate bit Edition.
It doesn't even display a message why it fails I'm having the exact same problem, and this is even a new build! I want to test SP2! Monday, December 8, AM. I am running Vista x86 Ultimate. Hey, this re-arming worked for me, where disk check and defrag, and several other things did not. I am running Vista Business and I had this issue.
0コメント