Looks like Microsft may well have a hit on its hands in Windows 7. In just eight hours, Windows 7 pre-orders outpaced the total number of pre-orders for Vista on Amazon UK. Vista was available for pre-order for a full 17 weeks, so this is something of an accomplishment for Microsoft.
On sale October 22, Windows 7… how do I phrase this? The fact that it’s not Vista is reason enough to consider buying it, especially it you’re clunking along on Windows XP. (To think that people, myself included, prefer the nearly eight-year-old Windows XP to Vista says something about the quality of Vista. But let’s not beat that dead horse, for the zillion time.)
IDC analysts predict about 170 million copies of Windows 7 will be floating around Europe by the next of next year. How many of those installs will you be responsible for?
Of course, not that any of this matters. Once Google Chrome OS comes out, we’ll all be like, “Yuck, who stores their presentations on their hard drive? How 2008 of you!” /eye_roll
I’ll stick with XP until the 1st service pack or so, thanks.
I’m still traumatized by Vista. I will also have find where everything, (setting type stuff) is again. Thank you, M$ for re-hiding system settings on every major Windows release.
P.S. I’m an IT guy. I’m supposed to know apparently.
Every machine I have that ran Vista is back on XP. It’s going to be a long time before I recover from that and embrace Win7. You say Vista, I shudder and cower.
I did try Win7 beta however on a spare machine. Looks like older hardware and lower cost newer hardware won’t be able to run XP compatibility mode in Win7. That’s a deal killer.
I really hate Microsoft. Adding and (especially) removing programs is still problematic on Linux and xBSD. Until that happens the alternatives will never make it to the desktop.
i’m using windows 7 for four months. it works faster and more stable, than any other os windows.
Windows first launch always gets the problem to user so it’s better to wait till it’s 1 service pack
I never understood, just WHAT did people hate about Vista? Or was it all just internet hate that grew out of control?
i run vista on a laptop and desktop and have no problems…i think most people just hear about other people with problems and automatically they are the ones with vista problems too!
i forgot to mention that i disabled UAC…i know thats where a lot of aggravation comes from!
I’ve been using Windows 7 for quite a few months in a commercialised environment. I’ve ran VM’s, and Apache / PHP / MySql on it with no problems at all.
It’s got far better compatibility than Windows Vista and XP did.
I’ll actually purchase a copy of Windows 7 for sure.