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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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…

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

… 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?

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

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