Vista suffers from poor marketing, and poor development from the MS side (being released too soon) and from the developer side (not enough drivers/software). Those problems were sufficiently gone by SP 1. It always made me chuckle when I hear how poor Vista is and then learn it's being put on five year old systems and being forced to run 10 year old software. >From the ground up 7 is Vista, make no mistake. There are differences, but they are subtle, more like the difference between Vista and Vista SP 1. It's name is clearly an attempt to move away from the Vista debacle, deserved or not, and get people to think a little more positive about it. Most the arguments I hear against Vista haven't been true for well over a year, they will probably never go away for some people, they just don't like it no matter what happens.
BTW, I am running Win7 on a laptop here so I do know what it looks and runs like. On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall < [email protected]> wrote: > Vista did not have the support for what I needed when it first came out and > also Machines I had would not all support Vista. (I had just built a new > machine and ran Vista advisor and it told me I still had a few things I had > to upgrade.) > > It was just not an Upgrade I felt I needed to make. Windows 7 sounds much > better from the ground up and is more likely to be a better seller than > Vista. > > My son has a Vista laptop and loves it. I have fiddled with my daughters > laptop (Vista) and it is not all that bad, but for the money (It was an > expensive one) I decided not to upgrade at the time. > > I run a few machines (In the family we have three laptops (Plus 2 that need > repair) and three desktop machines. Vista's minimum upgrade path would have > been home premium. Well over $100 a pop. Could not see spending that kind > of money for that type of upgrade. > > My wife's laptop was ordered with XP but she also has a DVD of Vista to > upgrade anytime. We will see, she is way more cautious than I am on stuff > like that. > > Stewart > > > At 10:20 AM 3/26/2009, you wrote: > >> Why 7 and not Vista? >> >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > At present I am excited about Windows 7 and am anticipating upgrading to >> > that. >> > >> > >> >> >> ************************************************************************* >> ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >> ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> > > Rev. Stewart A. Marshall > mailto:[email protected] > Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org > Ozark, AL SL 82 > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
