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What do I like about Windows 7?

That is finally installed.

It only took me 3 days, and numerous attempts to install it on Fusion. FINALLY, I found a post that said you couldn't do an inplace upgrade from XP, but had to do a workaround that was left over from Vista.

Nice going Microcrap!

I had to do a clean install on a blank virtual disk and then reload ALL of my programs from scratch.

Just goes to show you that Microcrap STILL can't program it's way out of a wet paper sack. Its managers have NO consideration of their customers. I can only imagine the howls of outrage from the corporations that have held onto XP and bypassed Vista, when they finally try to upgrade all of their computers to Win 7.

sturner wrote:

I can only imagine the howls of outrage from the corporations that have held onto XP and bypassed Vista, when they finally try to upgrade all of their computers to Win 7.

Reimage them and leave the servers (with all the files) on Server 2008 where they belong?

I used Windows 7 RC long enough that I can't really remember why or how it is different or better than Vista. A bit snappier and less bloated, I guess but I didn't find any major problems with Vista so I cannot say that is a big deal. I can tell you after running the release version of Win7 for a week why I like it better than XP - after a week I would have had to reformat and reinstall XP at least once, possibly 2, 3, 4, maybe more times if the first reformat/reinstall didn't take. None of that smurf with Win7, it just works.

Last edited by test (2009-10-29 2:01 pm)

Haven't used it yet, can't comment directly.

sturner wrote:

It only took me 3 days, and numerous attempts to install it on Fusion. FINALLY, I found a post that said you couldn't do an inplace upgrade from XP, but had to do a workaround that was left over from Vista.

Nice going Microcrap!

I had to do a clean install on a blank virtual disk and then reload ALL of my programs from scratch.

Just goes to show you that Microcrap STILL can't program it's way out of a wet paper sack. Its managers have NO consideration of their customers. I can only imagine the howls of outrage from the corporations that have held onto XP and bypassed Vista, when they finally try to upgrade all of their computers to Win 7.

OK, you had to give up L4D, RO and the rest for a spell. That's inconvenient, but not fatal... to a non-gamer, anyway. But remember that XP came out a full 8 years ago this month- 10/01- and Vista already had major changes to the driver model, memory handling and much more. I'm not sure that upgrading from XP to Vista's platform model update version, out yesterday, would be much easier, as that already requires Vista SP2 as a starting point. How easy is it to upgrade in MacOS from say, ca. '95, to ca. 2003?

gd wrote:

Here is what I like about Windows 7: it is not made by Apple. It is horribly prone to malware as have all the versions of Windows have been.

Source beyond "common knowledge?" Going on faith in security matters can really bite one in the hinder parts, and even OSX has AVware in it these days. Pretty rudimentary stuff, too.

sturner wrote:

I have to admit that MS is very consistent in being technically accurate, but not useful in instructions or Help files.

We can agree on that. Their help is seldom helpful. Most of us hereabouts, I'd guess, learn what we can and DIY.
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On the original topic, I am looking forward to the new 2D API stuff, and 7's ability to keep everything in video memory, without needing to keep a copy also in system memory. XP should have that; I'd likely have a 1GB videocard now. The Vista equiv (of the other stuff) is

The Windows Graphics, Imaging, and XPS Library enables developers to take advantage of the advancements in modern graphics technologies for gaming, multimedia, imaging, and printing applications. The new features include

• Updates to DirectX to support hardware acceleration for 2D, 3D, and text-based scenarios
• DirectCompute for hardware-accelerated parallel computing scenarios
• XPS Library for document printing scenarios

I think that includes hardware-accel vector grapics and sprites. Think how well '80s videogames would run. Star Castle, anyone?

NightCougar, that's what I had to do for my Fusion install. Here is the link that was provided on the VMware forums.