I Think Windows RC Looks Disappointing - Do You Too?

I think they have succeeding at making a better Vista.
I just wish they would make the classic theme fit better with Vista & Win 7.
I mean Aero is really nice, but when I'm doing work I like to have the minimal setup going on.

 

Aaron,

My main computer is just on 3 years old. Pentium D 3.2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 256 MB Video card.

I think Win7 is slightly faster than WinXP but that may be because I only have a few apps installed. It starts up and shuts down faster. Simple things like navigating menus is fast. When I get motivated I'll install Photoshop and see what happens.

 

+1 here. I am really impressed with Win7, works great so far.

 

You call yourself a 'geek', and I wouldn't brag about it too loudly, thank God MS programmers know that we are all different. Linux should be the right stuff for you, but then again there isn't much 'fun' running Linux, is there?

"Microsoft's primary stated objective with Windows Vista, however, has been to improve the state of security in the Windows operating system. One common criticism of Windows XP and its predecessors has been their commonly exploited security vulnerabilities and overall susceptibility to malware, viruses and buffer overflows. In light of this, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced in early 2002 a company-wide "Trustworthy Computing initiative" which aims to incorporate security work into every aspect of software development at the company. Microsoft stated that it prioritized improving the security of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 above finishing Windows Vista, thus delaying its completion.
Windows Vista ended up costing Microsoft 6 billion dollars to develop." (Excerpt from Wikipedia).

More over thousands of very intelligent people worked on Vista even before XP was first released. Here you are lambasting Vista as if it was one of the latest Hollywood "flops" and talking about the the "lack of brains at MS". If you are worried about your beloved XP, it is going to be around for along while thanking the new netbooks which need a light OS. Whether you like or not Vista and Windows 7, they are the future, and you are the past.

 

Slightly off-topic, friends who have used Vista and were used to XP, only took me a few minutes to:
>> disable a few visual tweaks
>> either disable some unnecessary services by following Black Viper's list or use the more automated Vista Services Optimizer
>> Install Norton UAC

And you'll have no complaints with Vista.

Now when Windows 7 is launched, I'm sure any unhappy users would only have to spend a few minutes of 'googling' to find further tweaks and improve their experience with the new OS.

 

I would have to disagree. Open-source is the future and I think M$ knows it. More and more people (and not just geeks) are realizing that FOSS OS's can do everything overpriced M$ OS's can do and often times do it better, and FOSS can do it for free.

 

Considering that people are still using Windows 98 and pirates prefer XP to Vista, XP is going to be around for a long time. And, XP does not have all the DRM crap that VISTA or Windows 7 has.

http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/10/microsoft-vista-drm-tech-security-cz_bs_0212vista.html

 

I'm using Vista64 home prem SP1 a little but mostly I use PCLinuxOS.

But the number 1 gripe I have against Vista is that the file paths are way way different than XP. Why? Afaik for NO good reason. Seems really stupid & smacks of total control freakism by M$.

 

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/41581/113/

88.42% Windows versus 0.88% Linux, sorry I couldn't resist.

 

I prefer the file paths in vista.
C:\users is way better than C:\documents and settings
im gonna try windows 7 rc over the weekend if i have time.

 

Me too. I always can't remember how to access Documents and Settings in DOS, for example, cd \docume~ I believe it is. A lot easier with cd \users.

 

I would have to disagree with all of that.... But only time will tell eh?

 

On related news, people who say 'M$' are idiots. More at 11.

 

Although it is termed "Release Candidate" there are rumors that Microsoft still has a new UI planned...

So I guess we will see.

Personally, I don't really have a problem with the Vista or Win7 UI as is, but I can sort of understand the desire for 'something new' or at least additional UI options. On the other hand, I wouldn't expect a radical UI change. Microsoft is a fairly conservative company and is driven probably more by large enterprise customer demands than by the collective voice of individual users. Large enterprise customers don't want a new UI, or at least anything radically changed, as that involves training and IT support costs. So, you as a user are really butting-heads here with the General Electric, Exxon, and Coca Cola's of the world.

You never know though. Microsoft has appointed Julie Larson-Green as "Corporate Vice President, Windows Experience". She is apparently the one that made the decision to replace the Microsoft Office menu system with the Office 2007 "ribbon" toolbar, and to not give users the option to go back to the old menu structure. That was a pretty radical UI decision, for something as corporate and button-downed as MS Office. Of course, it's a decision I don't personally agree with... as I think users should have been given the choice to rollback to the Office 2003 menu structure, especially since I don't really like the ribbon. Nevertheless, she's pretty gutsy. I'll give her that.

 

Running the Windows 7 RC (64-bit) now. Love it!

I prefer Unix for programming and math (LaTeX, Lyx, Maxima,...).
And I much prefer OpenBSD to Linux (both are Unix-like, not Unix).
Getting tired of Linux again.

 

I hope they don't change it much, I think it's great as is.

 

OpenBSD is quite impractical for a Desktop machine.

 

chronomatic:

Umm. No. I've used OpenBSD as a desktop for years. Just tried KDE on
my laptop (OpenBSD), but prefer the minimalistic fluxbox or ratpoison or such,
so re-installing that. Then, on my desktop, I'll replace the Ubuntu partitions with
x64 OpenBSD.