From: Adam Maas
Win7 is nothing more than Vista with ReadyBoost turned off and the
task bar broken. Very little real-world difference between the two,
mostly a rebranding to deal with the fallout of Vista's launch. The
real irony is the Vista launch was far smoother than the XP launch,
few seem to remember how bad that was because even broken XP was a
major improvement over Windows Me. Windows 7 is actually the only
smooth consumer OS launch Microsoft has had other than Windows 3.1,
mostly because Windows 7 is merely a lightly tweaked variant of Vista
which should more correctly be called Vista SE.
Which brings me to my major complaint about Vista.
I really liked how XP was organized; how things looked when I opened
folders, where things were, how you got to them, how the search tool
functioned ... really a bunch of minor details that pretty much get
lumped together under "look and feel".
I was comfortable with XP. It may have sucked, but it worked better (for
me) than 95, 98, NT4, ME, 2000, SE ...
Vista changed EVERYTHING.
Nothing was where I expected it to be; it wasn't organized the way I had
learned to operate. And I *STILL* despise Vista's search function. I
don't want to use an internet browser to find where I put certain files
on my hard-drive. It may function better than XP, but it aggravates the
crap out of me sometimes.
Still, I'm finally becoming inured to Vista.
Am I setting myself up to go through that same shit all over again?
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