New Microsoft Windows 7 OS, is it your Vista alternative?
Filed under: Computers, Software | By: Daniel
Posted on: January 22, 2009 | 20 Comments
Most windows users hardly have a kind word to say about Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Vista operating system, it’s also widely reported that many users tried Vista for a while and then switched back to Windows XP. Then you have the millions that never tried Vista and just stuck with XP.
So you could say that Windows Vista was a flop, although we enjoyed it for many months before moving to Mac OS and never looking back. Now its time for Microsoft to try and win back some of its fans with a Vista alternative.
This goal may be achieved with Microsoft’s new Windows 7 system, which you can download currently in a “beta” form from Microsoft’s site. There are some big changes in Windows 7 and one of the most obvious changes is Windows 7’s tolerance for low-powered computers.
Its well known that with each Windows OS upgrade you need a more powerful computer, but with Windows 7 this is not the case. Windows 7 will run just fine on a high spec dual-core computer and also good on an Asus Eee PC. This is directly to combat the popularity of open source operating systems like Linux.
You can read more on Windows 7 via the read link below or if you have tried WIndows 7, is it your Vista alternative?
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I like windows vista.
I used Windows XP after i used windows vista and i can’t use XP, its too hard to find things windows vista is the way to go!
I like vista better than xp .don’t see why you call it a flop
windows 7 better than vista
Lets be honest here it would be difficult for windows 7 to be any worse than vista. Vista is to slow, and is one permenant error after another. Even worse when it offers to fix something it take far to long, asks far to many questions and I have never had it fix a problem successfully. I have in the past waited an hour for it to fix a problem that I think didn’t exist in the first place, only to have it download a fix and then say Oh I can’t fix this problem after all. What a waste of time. Time I can’t afford to waste on a defective OS. I think I was more thsn patient with it. I tried it for around 6 months bedfore deciding enough is enough, cutting my losses and binning it. In this day and age you shouldn’t have to be patient with a right royal screw up of a program. It should by this time have been totally fixed, but its only real fix is to bin the software. I won’t be trying windows 7 anytime soon. We moved on to linux and are much happier with it than we ever were with vista. I just need to get an alternative for the lap top which is our last remaining copy of vista, Will more than likely be Linux again. May Vista RIP and be quickly forgotten. That@s all its fit for in my opinion.
i must say i dont agree with calling vista a flop, i really like it it works fine for me ,people need to be patient, as earlier it had glitches but now it was worth the wait. thanks microsoft.
come back to planet earth, vista is an epic fail
I would agree Windows Vista is a flop and from the vast majorities of reviews along with Microsoft’s tumbling stocks I would say that a major percentage of the public agrees.
I’m an I.T. admin of 20 years and my own personal opinion of the software is anything but good.
If all you do is read email or search the web, maybe edit a few pictures or make some home movies that Vista will be fine for you, but if you really dive in to the nuts and bolts from a developer or I.T. side it is absolute crap and so buggy it’s hard to get the same result twice.
Over the last few years I’ve been drifting more and more into Linux. I know that immediately makes me a Windows hater in some eyes. Far from it, my main machine is XP. However, the general public has no idea how bad they’ve been robbed by Microsoft. The Stability and robustness of Linux puts Microsoft to absolute shame.
Unfortunately the general citizen doesn’t want to learn anything they aren’t absolutely forced to, so they continue to lap of the schlock that is pushed in front of them.
I never tried Vista- I avoided it like the plague. I was going to give it a shot now that SP1 is out. I was all ready with my vista CD, when a friend gave me a win 7 beta copy. From all I’ve read, it took all the good that vista brought to the table, and fixed the major issues.
I’m pumped about it at any rate.
I’ve been on Vista for 5 months. It came with a new laptop. Even though the laptop has twice as much memory as my old machine, Vista is slower than XP ever was and it hangs all the time. Half my programs don’t work on Vista. Most of the others required patches. It’s controls are wonky and half of what made XP a decent software is no longer available in Vista. What a waste Vista is…a waste of time, money, and as it turns out, great marketing for Microsofts competitors as I comment that…”I’ll never buy one of their (Microsoft) products again”
I may try a dual boot system and see if I can get it to work on the short term but I’m definitely moving back to XP and I’m going to play with Linux as well. I figure if I have to waste time fiddling with it anyway, why not fiddle with a quality software package.
I’ve got no idea why MS released Vista the way they did…half baked and useless to most people.
Vista came with my new computer. As far as i’m concerned vista is nothing but a ploy to buy new microsoft software. Programs pior to 2005 are practically useless due to incompatibility. For me to use any new microsoft OS they will have to pay ME!
Truer words were never spoken.
Alphatwin is an absolute moron! Vista is way better than XP and performs great. Just because you can’t operate vista you come on this website and bash it. This article is so biased its ridiculous. Anyone who doesn’t like vista is either retarded or an old f*** that didn’t like the change from windows 95.
ilovevista,
This is my favorite line, “Anyone who doesn’t like vista is either retarded or an old f***”.
Wow, way to rant intelligently, I see you have offered 0 actual information on the topic at hand. Very typical of a n00b who really has little if any experience.
What a shame. Next time try and be a bit more intelligent with your outbursts.
Just so were clear, I go back much farther than 95.
I do believe that you has not brain or it’s control for an entity with a large bank account
vista it’s about sell you the new products cause vista and visual basic (that is a computer language) does not sync
and most of the software it’s written in that language
so after that big bubo they (Microsoft) said hell with it and make a new one that is why they (Microsoft) are not trying to fix vista and instead they (Microsoft) came up with a new OS after just 2 years in the market
PD: XP last 6 years and keep on going
I was raised on the old Commodore 64 and Apple ][es and so forth, going through nearly every operating system created by Microsoft and Apple with various *nix flavors and so on. I’ve never been without a computer at any point in my life. I’ve worked in IT as a government contractor and as a freelance web/graphic designer and photographer. I’ve had a lot of experience and it’s only on that experience that I can base my opinion.
That said, Vista really isn’t bad at all. I used to use the “worst version” of XP (Home Edition) on a much older computer to run a bunch of P2P applications, web/ftp servers, IRC servers, etc whilst using all kinds of memory and cpu-intensive graphics applications. Granted, I reconfigured the operating system the way I wanted and needed, but I was able to rig an automated server that could have thousands of connections going through it every day. I went on an extended vacation for three and a half months and in that time, it never crashed, never got hacked, and didn’t have a problem.
Using the same approach to Vista (Home Premium this time, 32 bit), I haven’t had any problems. Even my lousy HP laptop can be left running several torrents and P2P programs for days without a problem. The longest I’ve gone between reboots is three or four weeks. I’m not sure how long it’s capable of going because I invariably end up needing to install/modify something and thus reboot.
I put the same OS on a newer desktop I built last year. So far, it has never crashed or had a single security event. I can run a variety of Python apps, for example, with no problem. And I’ve had no driver issues! I don’t know how or why so many other people have had such negative experiences, but I’d hazard the statement that it has less to do with the operating system and more to do with how the system is being used in general.
To say Vista is a flop is pretty left field. A good indicator of an OS’s popularity is its iterations in the P2P community. Seems to me, there is no shortage of people the world over looking for Vista.
People who think vista is not a flop are obviously idiots.