Windows 7 was created to be easier to use than Vista — if anything, they’ve introduced a number of UI changes that make the system much harder to navigate, particularly if you’ve never used Vista and are going direct to Windows 7 from Windows XP, which is the path that many users will experience......Read the full story.


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My new customer installs are going with Fedora 10. Fully installed, I'm pretty sure it's a viable competitor and the price is nice.

My XP...

Windows 7 is Vista in disguise. Since Vista did not sell, they are trying 7 now.

I ask you this: What does Vista or 7 brings to the table of XP, that we so desperately need?

Nothing.

But it does make Micro$oft few more billions of dollars they do not deserve.

Free is a very good price.

I just got this computer with the vista and like it alot. I'm never going to need Windows 7 at all.

XP's workin just fine for me & have no reason to want Vista or 7. I'm planning on building a new system for doing HD video editing & it'll be XP too. My computer now works fine for audio recording but it's not up to the task of HD video.

Windows just dresses up their OS and gives it a new name. XP is as good as it gets. I think Linux is coming of age now. Ubuntu gives you that XP like feel without the Windows misery!

I have run Vista since it was a beta. Never had a single prob with it, ever, not even a minor one. The graphics are way above anything else, In my work, I use the heck out of the graphics abilities. Fart superior to the xp that I used previously. Biggest prob I have found with most users of Vista is that they have not figured out how to use it and find stuff in it. The UI has changed and that just tears ppl up who developed the habits of finding stuff in XP and 2K. I remember the same discussions since win3.1 changeover to win95. You use it, you get used to it. When the next changeover comes, the same comments will occur, only the xp will be substituted by vista

Willy_cents,

What graphics advantages does it have, say, comparing it to XP?

I would be interested, if there are any. Since I work with graphics designers.

As to the whole idea of changing operating systems...:

Pre W2K OSes were bad, because they weren't reliable. W2K really did change that.

WinXP added two things: "Run As" almost everywhere, and slightly better scripting engine. Oh, and a network monitor graph. Almost forgot, XP added an ability to return to a folder you were looking at without scrolling to it again.

That was about it. Did I miss anything else?

Vista and 7 cannot work with file load anymore, just try renaming say, 97 000 files in a batch. So, right there, it is not a professional system, or definitely less so.

It has annoying user interface. What is the point of giving microsoft more money for a user interface that is not better, just different? Was there anything wrong with an old one?

In short, why buy a new OS, which isn't a thing that just gets older by itself, if it doesn't give you something you very much needed and couldn't do before?

Of course, there is the aspect of everybody programming for mostly the current system, which forces all of us sooner or later to a new (same as old) OS. (DirectX10, 11), games, CS, etc.