Twilight Wolf
Frequent Poster
Seriously, I really don't see the big deal about it. Now, keep in mind that this is coming from someone who isn't tech-savvy enough to care about all the little bits and pieces most people don't care about in a given OS, like coding, etc. I'm a pretty good example of an intermediate PC user, someone who knows their way around a computer fairly well but doesn't get deeper into it than that - one of the people Windows 7 is being marketed to. Having used the RC for a few months now, I can honestly say I have found nothing about Windows 7 that makes me want to dump Vista for it. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad OS - not at all. But neither is Vista. Sure, maybe it looks a little prettier and it has a few neat features (I am fond of the changes made to the taskbar), but I'm sure that stuff could be made available in Vista if Microsoft really wanted it to be. In my experience, Windows 7 isn't faster than Vista, it's not more stable, it's not more reliable, and neither is any software that I'm used to running on Vista. In fact, I have had more problems with Windows 7 in these past few months than I ever had with Vista in two and a half years. For the sake of example, I find myself having to reinstall the drivers for my USB keyboard and mouse (both of which are Microsoft products that claim to be compatible with Windows 7) once a month or so because they simply change overnight and refuse to work properly any more, and without any outside tampering by me. It's not like they don't work to begin with; they work 100% as they should, as they did on Vista, until they just... don't. I don't even so much as look at my settings for these devices any more for fear that doing so will screw them up, and yet it happens anyways. I've also begun to experience the issue of my computer forgetting my wireless connection settings, so I've had to manually reconnect it and re-enter all the security information and connection settings in order to use my wireless internet. My audio card drivers have the nasty habit of changing themselves randomly, too. Pitiful.
In summary, I cannot understand why Windows Vista, which was and still is so reviled by so many people for so long for reasons I cannot comprehend, especially when I never experienced most, if any, of the myriad problems it was supposed to have, when essentially just reskinned and given a new name, becomes the best thing to hit PCs since Windows 1.0. This is why I do not buy into all the Windows 7 hype and am simply going to install Ubuntu once the Windows 7 RC expires and then most likely just reinstall Vista after that, unless I really like Ubuntu.
That is all. If you're going for Windows 7 when it comes out, why? I'd honestly be interested in hearing your reasons.
P.S. Fun fact: Opera's spell checker thinks "internet" isn't a real word. Lawl.
In summary, I cannot understand why Windows Vista, which was and still is so reviled by so many people for so long for reasons I cannot comprehend, especially when I never experienced most, if any, of the myriad problems it was supposed to have, when essentially just reskinned and given a new name, becomes the best thing to hit PCs since Windows 1.0. This is why I do not buy into all the Windows 7 hype and am simply going to install Ubuntu once the Windows 7 RC expires and then most likely just reinstall Vista after that, unless I really like Ubuntu.
That is all. If you're going for Windows 7 when it comes out, why? I'd honestly be interested in hearing your reasons.
P.S. Fun fact: Opera's spell checker thinks "internet" isn't a real word. Lawl.
0, so I'm good.
