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Your rant does you no credit. You’re confusing HW designs choices (e.g. IRQ, serial) with MS SW. I’ve used Linux for a decade at work, and Windows 7 is as stable and a heck of a lot more user friendly for the desktop. In fact look what a *mess* KDE 4.0 (one of the main graphical desktops for Linux distros) was – so don’t start getting on your high-horse that MS don’t know how to program and that you, with your 10 years of experience, can do sooo much better. PS OS X has some fairly major bugs too

Win7 security is no doubt significantly improved. Users need education into UAC – after that it’s pretty similar to the unix concept of user rights.

Windows has been handling screen resolution very well with my laptop, which I alternate between work (19″ VGA monitor) and home (26″ DVI). Perfectly happy with its performance on a 1.66GHz dual core with 2.5GB

“have never even used it properly but they come here bashing all those who say anything good about it.”

Umm, can I ask you how much have you programmed in your life? I have 10 years of programming under my belt, from year ago.

I understand the concept of security and how you get it in programming.
ALL I see here is..
GRAPHICS, its pretty lets buy it does not impress me.
BLOATED OS, that REQUIRED MORE and MORE and MORE..
OLD tech, that hasnt changed. Look up DYNAMIC DRIVERS.. Look up MEMORY manager.. Look up running only what is needed for the program, THEN being able to DUMP them when they arent being USED.
OLD hardware design. Look up WHO created windows NT, then wonder WHY MS cant program that way. Look up OLD systems like BOs, and Amiga that the VIDEO cards did the WORK of decompiling and processing the VIDEO, not the CPU.. Look up PARALLEL processing, and then WONDER why MS cant get ALL the cores working properly. Look up and WONDER why we still use IRQ and a SERIAL based system, that WAITS at every DEVICE before it can continue. THEN windows trying to BYPASS, something thats NOT NEEDED with software. WONDER why multi CPU works under windows and Multi CORE does not..AND you PAY FOR IT.

You want the truth.. Wonder why MS just bought out a HIGH end computer company that KNOWS HOW to program for Multi CPU machines. Because 99.99 % of MS does not know how to PROGRAM for multi core. the ORIGINAL multi CPU windows NT was not created by windows. Windows programmers have NO idea how to Fully program. THE CORE of vista and win7 have lost most of the programming created under NT.

Wait for the NEXT versions that SHOULD be able to increase speed by at LEAST the number of cores on the CPU.

I have used Windows 7 beta, RC for over 6 months and I was highly impressed of it. Even though it still suffers from the usual (more you use me, more frequently you must format me) disease. Gets slower by the time. I hope its fixed in the retail version.

Other than that, its a solid OS.

And that crappy homegroup idea that it would only work among win7 machines was known to anyone who dared read a preview of the turd7

Still—I HATE M$. How in the world so many Linux distro’s start up with everything working and connected and Win7 requires all this extra work is an OUTRAGE!!!!!!!

Further, I’m now running into the Homegroup in Win7 only being open to Win7 OS’s. My two other “main” XP machines are not switching to Win7 just to be able to have all my computers on the LAN. I see this may be an issue of the difference between “the Homegroup” and other file sharing options====but what a difficult mess, and yet M$ is still proud of its product????

I’m back to thinking XP works for me==why buy into all these hassles? My Win7 is being returned. Had the salesman write that on my receipt, we’ll see.

In their reply, they kindly told the vendor to hold until they fixed the thing… in about 12 months!

MS has turned into a bigger crap and their copy attempt on mac user stupi…. er friendly has made it even worse.

Driver searching is a standard microsoft solution, I would never ever trust that every driver is on their install disks nor the vendor install disks for at least 6 months after a release.

Brings up whole issue of how poorly M$ is at screen resolution control. I’m running three monitors and nothing works the way it should with resolutions. Just like their word processor program. There should be “a switch” where everything is “WYSIWYG” instead of all this formatting crap we get instead.

I’m saying this doesn’t work for me and give it another year. Won’t recognize my sound card either. Does seem a little quicker, and IE8 was working like a champ.