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2009-10-22 Science & Technology

Review: Windows 7 Is Vast Improvement Over Vista

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-10-22 10:19|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Anything is a vast improvement over Vista. Not exactly setting a high bar there.

Corporate Vista users are just 3% of the installed base. That is incredible, especially given that all new PCs have come with Vista for 3 years.

Then you have my former boss, who bought MacBook Pros, wiped the hard drives and installed Vista on them...

Posted by Iblis 2009-10-22 10:41|| 2009-10-22 10:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Is anyone but the foolhardy going to run W7 until SP2 comes out?

Posted by gromky 2009-10-22 11:15|| 2009-10-22 11:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I love Vista. It fixed a lot of the issues I had with XP and its driver gremlins and I haven't had any major issues. So Win7 would be even more icing on my delicious cake.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-10-22 11:18|| 2009-10-22 11:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Windows 7: that's Vista SP2, right?

Posted by Steve White 2009-10-22 11:48|| 2009-10-22 11:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Windows 7 probably runs better because the hardware is there for it thanks to Vista.

Vista WAS flaky though. Windows ME 64bit! :)

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-10-22 12:47|| 2009-10-22 12:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Ahmm...

Linux

Posted by twobyfour 2009-10-22 15:07|| 2009-10-22 15:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Linux > Windows > Macs

Posted by Bisa 2009-10-22 18:49|| 2009-10-22 18:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Most complaints with computers have to do with insufficient RAM. One of the reasons why computers are so cheap is that the vendors deliver as little as 1GB of memory. Much software needs much more.

Posted by Helmuth, Speaking for Grerelet4852 2009-10-22 19:07|| 2009-10-22 19:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Windows 7: that's Vista SP2, right?

Wrong! It's Vista SP3.

Posted by DMFD 2009-10-22 21:19|| 2009-10-22 21:19|| Front Page Top

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