New Microsoft Windows 7 OS, is it your Vista alternative?

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

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.

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!

windows 7 better than vista

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.

come back to planet earth, vista is an epic fail

Truer words were never spoken.

People who think vista is not a flop are obviously idiots.

I am supriced of the many users accepting Vista as the better version of XP. I started with the fist Windows version 3.11/351 and at any time i came across a Windows version which was developed in manner user community could operate with. Unfortunately all version had a staggering number of security issues as well as bugs making the Os become very vulnerable, unstable and an easy source of scripts attacks. The reason is based on the Microsoft Corp arrogance not to release an open source version so that people like my self were able to add ideas and corrections. Since i operate in the field of Network security using Cisco and many other products, I work also with Unix and Linux. While Unix is used at work, privately I have become an addicted user of Linux which due to his open source offers many people the opportunity to customize it and to find direct support from professionals. Linux has become very user friednly adapting similar graphical interface as Windows, but it is much more stable then Windows which main issues are never so easy solvable. In addition since many uses Windows OS’s the Web is just over filled from dodgy freeware promising a quick solution. A WORD OF ADVICE: NEVER AND EVER TRUST ANY PROGRAM WHICH HASN’T BE SIGNED OFF BY MICROSOFT AS MOST HAVE A SMALL SCRIPT WHICH SIMILAR TO A TROYAN VIRUS Used mainly as a marketing tool. EVEN WORST SOME HAVE HIDDEN VIRUSES WHICH STANDARD VIRSU SCANNER CANNOT REVEAL IN THE FIRST MOMENT. AND BY THE TIME IT DOES YOUR PC WILL NEED TO BE REBUILD TO ENSURE A FULL VIRUS FREE PC.

If user community would make use of Linux OS you would also gain the advantage to learn more about Operating systems. I am surprised by the amount of ignorant users unable to understand the basics of OS functionality. But do not get me wrong. These so called ignorant user have no fault on their own. In fact it was and is Microsoft whose main goal is to create a society of ignorant users by offering a so called fully functional self automated voice recognition Operating system. The aim is to simplify Operating system usage that even a child can simply use it. They already started advertising an 8 years old girl “playing” with MS movie maker to show how easy this can be used. This is the amazing idea of Microsoft. Unfortunately by creating a society of simply users whose knowledge is limited by clicking on icons they create a society of pure genuine idiots, whose personal information will be then available to have for the purpose of marketing projects. Microsoft is so becoming one of the biggest marketing company worldwide holding billions of personal data about their user community. Imagine the power having such amount of detailed information. The question is what do they do with these? This is when i welcome the hacker communities who keeps trying to hack inside the secrets of Microsoft as it is time that the world is told what are their real intentions since Microsoft is the only company holding his operating system with a great deal of secrecy by not proving the public with free access to its open source.

Yes Windows XP is a total failure together with all the others developments. And the fact they demand such high price shows their success in having already created a large society of ignorant users who don’t seem to see beyond the brand of Microsoft Windows OS. This has guaranteed Microsoft a fortune as we all now buy without even questioning the products functionality and as many bugs this may have as more attractive it may become for the many users who likes to “play” instead to think for them self.
However the fact is that Microsoft as conquered most of the market and as long there are no people to question but also act to what they say, Windows operating systems will keep invading the market becoming the most dominant and insecure platform proding MS with more and more data of all users.

New and old windows os have one special in common: they all have been developed to simplify thinking process but also they have complicated many genuine users life as their system are totally unreliable, unstable and have a lots of security issues which many will never learn. Therefore as long they keep managing to entertain large users community who don’t really question them, they will remain the dominant operating system for dummies….
REMEMBER:
Terrarum orbis est noster – The world is ours
…and not Microsoft

Despite my sympathy for Windows products, I still use XP as my experience always showed me that Microsoft new products were always shipped with massive issues and only after service packs corrections were released there was some improvement which made it possibly less unreliable. That never mend a reason for me to use it. I only did so to test the products under specific requirement. Unfortunately there ius very little positive i can say about Vista. The only positive impulse Microsoft has created is to move the development of Hardware products to new levels as these needs to be adapted accordingly to Microsoft. probably without Microsoft intervention the hardware development will be much slower. This has provided mass market new affordable technologies offering higher hardware performance which mend improved and faster PC for the common users. perhaps Microsoft existence is a vital component in the development of new technologies and markets, but they should really consider provide free cost Operating system from now on and release an open source version so that the world can develop its own customized version as Linux has done since it was released.

My expectation to Windows 7 are equal as Vista, meaning that i am expecting ONLY main problems and hidden illegal scripts one of which will be certainly to ensure their products cannot be used without popper licensing. That it self would be a reason for me not to buy it. However being familiar with most programming language i am certain we will find a method to freeware Windows 7 to operate without the need of registration. However it will all depends how far Microsoft plans to obtain personal data for its user community and by which methods as many in my opinion may dispute with current legislation of data protection act and others. But let’s wait and see as i am confident Windows 7 will be one more flop in the big portfolio of Microsoft main flops….But as we all know, they will still make the one important thing…a lot of profit from a world they have conquired and now the nearly own…what a shame.

Come on!!, for those who dare to say vista is better than XP are completely wrong, this system utilizes almost 30 of the resources of the machine ONLY for running the OS, it’s true it is a bit faster and looks real nice, but come on, desktop themes for windows XP can do the same, for me it does not work because I use a lot of old software, and not because I want it, it’s only because my work need it. For those who need to have more than one PC FOR WORK a single pc is too expensive due all the components needed to run vista, ONLY FOR RUNNIG the OS you need to spend a lot of money, I am not saying changing OS system are a bad thing, but come on!! VISTA?? You got to be kidding me, it really is an epic fail, not only for those who actually work with it also for those who love to play, this vista system reminds me the windows XP 64, it was good, but IT WAS AN EPIC FAIL TOO, so just let’s be honest, you need to spend much money for something that does not work well.

Let me set the record straight, Vista sucked, it took up too much space and used too much power, and it didn’t really give you any advantages over XP. Of course people can get used to it, but just because you have gotten used to the smell of cow crap dosn’t mean that it dosn’ smell that bad

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.