is it me or is this post full of double meanings.

win7 is just a soupup of vista minus a few bugs…bootup fast without widgets
still have incompabilty softwares issues
that is all
meanwhile all vista users..either you buy a NEW license for the win7 os..no you cannot used vista cd key..it WON’T worked or free activation…
just sticked to vista if you don’t want to pay to upgrade…

Free yourself from Microsoft’s endless OS update cycles.
Try Ubuntu Linux instead.
Download Ubuntu for FREE at http://www.ubuntu.com/

Let’s see this time if PAP try to claim credit on Windows 7’s success. Haha

Hi Utopia #4,

PAP Member of Parliament Jessica Tan Soon Neo is the Managing Director of Microsoft Operations Pte Ltd.

Hi Linux Rocks #3.

I am a Linux user too! We should all do our part in saying “NO” to Microsoft’s monopoly.

Let’s all migrate to Ubuntu, Mandrake, SuSE and Red Hat!!!

But Ubuntu can play windows games anot? lol.

Mr. E (#1):

It’s not just you. I’m seeing it too, but I admit I’m always seeing things out of nothing! Heh!

But we can’t be blamed, because there are parallels to the OS wars with local politics. The way I see it:

Windows: PAP
Mac OS: WP
Linux: SDP (and both are emphasizing on freedom!)
Chrome: RP (new guy!)

Well, I can’t fit SDA anywhere… but one can’t have everything in parallels, right?

Linux rocks! (#3):

But Ubuntu has regular update cycles as well (but of course, it’s free). And as the recent Ubuntu release, Karmic Koala, has shown, OS updates (besides the cost issue) will more than not run into problems.

Terence #6,

I rather play games on consoles such as Playstation 3 and XBOX 360. The hardware specification for PC games changes every quarter while the hardware specification of console games is fixed since new game console models are released once every few years.

“Windows: PAP
Mac OS: WP
Linux: SDP (and both are emphasizing on freedom!)
Chrome: RP (new guy!)”

So the mobile OS must be the complementary entity.

Windows Mobile: PAP’s grassroot organization
Android: WP or SDP or RP’s org ?
BlackBerry: Dodo ’s grassroot ?
Palm: Foreigner’s grassroot org
Symbian: Go fly kite org

“PAP Member of Parliament Jessica Tan Soon Neo is the Managing Director of Microsoft Operations Pte Ltd.”

Oh, maybe that is why Windows Vista sucks ! Just Want your money only.

Usually, I have no criticism for TOC,

But perhaps, Ivan Ho should do proper benchmarking before posting this? or just look at what others have done in terms of benchmark results. Instead of trying to feel it…

Just by saying this “there are no noteworthy performance indications that Windows 7 have over Windows Vista” I know how much salt i have to take with this article

improvement from Vista? but I have never used Vista, for a very good reason

8) Donaldson on November 6th, 2009 5.34 pm
I rather play games on consoles such as Playstation 3 and XBOX 360.

… consoles don’t allow for mods. I can wield a lightsaber in Fallout3 PC version. Can you do the same on a console?

I get new maps / units created by the respective community for FREE. Are there such things for the console?

and FPS games in console seem to have restriction on the number of players… I like games where we have 32 players on each side duking it out.

Benchmarked test results : Ubuntu vs Vista vs Windows 7

http://www.tuxradar.com/content/benchmarked-ubuntu-vs-vista-vs-windows-7

Windows 7 vs Ubuntu 9.10 vs OS X 10.6

http://lunduke.com/?p=840

Mr E and Jackson

TOC is a political website and hence I’ll try to do my best to ’stay on topic’ even if its Lifestyle =)

Yamamoto

Thank you for your criticism. In future I will benchmark extensively.

16) Ivan

Thanks alot. I appreciate if you do. Oh, btw, part of the reason for faster operational readiness after startup can be attributed to the revision of SuperFetch. Good thing is, they went to fix something that they put in which cause the problem. And I enjoy the experience, since I have been using it since Aug courtesy to who else but MS.

“2) win7abeta1.1″

Don’t mind me saying, but Virtual XP RC, that helps ALOT.

Terence (#6),

Yep; Install WINE or (if you have more money), subscribe to CEDEGA.

didn’t know TOC is a techie website ???

is window XP = PAP long ago
is window Vista = PAP present ( @ full of bugs @ )
is window 7 = PAP coming soon ( just fix some bugs from Vista, however still full of bugs??? )

lol

UAC is not an anti-virus tool but functions to prevent application software from gaining administrative privileges without user’s consent. If the malware is built to run without needing any administrative privilege, of course it will run without any problem but the damage it can effect is severely restricted to what the user account can access and not the whole operating system. Blaming UAC is akin to blaming the network firewall for failing to prevent your malware from running.

The report is also severely flawed as the sample of malware being tested is small (only 10) and how do we know that the anti-virus vendor did not cherry pick those malware that is known to run without administrative privileges. We do know that most malware do need administrative privileges to run as the most common malware is targeting Windows XP that does not have the protection of UAC and most Win XP users are running as administrator.

http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/
Microsoft had released their own free anti-virus solution, Microsoft Security Essentials. This is a no-frills anti-virus software that is free of bloat, has a small memory footprint and simple user inferace and is highly recommended over other free anti-virus offerings by other vendors.

[i]“2) win7abeta1.1″

Don’t mind me saying, but Virtual XP RC, that helps ALOT. [/i]

i have been testin using virtual xp rc in xp os before a FEW years ago…take up alot of resources
which is why i give up on virtual os windows within windows
maybe this time with higher more rams resources improved…

[i]UAC is not an anti-virus tool but functions to prevent application software from gaining administrative privileges without user’s consent.[/i]

i simply HATEs uac…i removed every uac from clients computers..they appreciate it…hee hee

With this, the cycle of problems would always remain until it becomes clear that Microsoft should come up with a stable system even with the given hardware limitations for all Windows users to experience. It is Microsoft’s choice for its future operating systems to be revered as an omnipotent immortal or just merely be honored as a hero.
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Ever since the move to NT-based OS (from Windows XP onwards for normal users), MS have largely solved the instability problems that plagued MS-DOS based OS such as Windows 98 in the past. Most present instability problems in Windows are largely due to unstable drivers and hardware issues.

I had run Windows XP without any anti-virus software for 5 years and did not face any instability and malware problems. I see most present malware problems due to PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) :
1. Not running any anti-virus software.
2. Disabling inbuilt OS security features such as UAC.
3. Indiscriminate installation and running of downloaded software from unsafe websites (eg from P2P networks)
4. Failure to keep the OS updated with the latest patches.
5. Not running the latest web browsers.

22) win7abeta1.1

Like what you have said, that’s a few years ago. A few years ago, I hate it too…but times changes and there is such a thing call progress….but of course progress can varies…I have been running beta testing and the new Virtual XP RC on my Win 7 RTM… is I will say…way better then the past.

“maybe this time with higher more rams resources improved…”

I will say that improvement in algorithm plays a big part too…i can give you as much resources as you want…but with bad algo…good luck

22) win7abeta1.1

And yes, they will appreciate it, since some people really do willing give up so much stuff just for the sake of convenience…

Ever since I run Windows 7 on both my notebook and netbook, both get a new lease of life. As so far, weeks of running shows no crash at all. That is very incredible and I have never experienced anything like this in Windows before. Microsoft really has made Windows 7 by far one of best operating system for layman. The performance and stability is nothing short of amazement. Yes, you have to use it to experience how smooth and fast is the all-round performance. I actually experience less hard-disk access as seem by hard disk blinking LED. Beside, Windows 7 look simplified and stunning. Give it a try.

Windows Vista is like PAP. Have image but no substance. Look nice (Create nice looking building and image) but always crash (no substance, eg self-inflicted shit like Minibomb, Mas Selamat’s escape, foreigner-screw you policy, MP-nonsense), no substance (PAP only talkcock and sing song to make worth their high salary, do basic administrative work and they think they should be paid and worship like a God and demi-God)

Windows 7 has nothing like PAP. It has both image and substance. So please don’t associate win7 with a pathetic shameless party.

As long as there are willing slaves in our consumers society, there will be products to feed this endless crave. It just like chasing after the latest model of handhones.

The fault lies not in Bill Gates & Co, but in consumers themselves, their weakness to have material things to reach a state of “happiness”

The UAC problem can be fixed by bumping up the UAC level to max ( I think that’s level 4). The only problem is that you’ll just get those irritating popup boxes again.

Not everyone everyone can be as beautiful as an apple.. certainly not the butt ugly
microsoft.

Jackson Tan: your post comparing the different operating systems out there to our local political parties cracked me up.

Just to share a bit of somewhat off-topic but interesting snippet: a few years back, not long after Vista was released, I was at my local community’s meet-the-people’s session, and I noticed that the laptops the volunteers were working with were all running Windows Vista.

Remember, that was when Vista was being bashed all over the place and everyone was wanting to stick with Windows XP.

Hmmm…

Anyway, I do agree that Windows 7 is definitely better than Vista in many ways. I now can’t live without Aero Snap, or the faster (much faster, I say) wake-up times. Icon management in the taskbar’s notification area is also more intuitive to me – instead of squeezing hidden icons into the taskbar when you show them, they now appear in a pop-up.

Jumplists and thumbnail-window switching are great features, but until more applications take advantage of these features, I don’t think it’s going to make that much of a difference. The web browser I use (Opera) is one that hasn’t taken advantage of these new taskbar features yet. The new Firefox 3.6 beta takes advantage of the latter, and there’s an add-on for Firefox 3.5 that adds support for both features; I don’t use Firefox that much though.