I've been on Win7 through all the testing and release, so it's a year + experience w/ me. I like it a lot.
Improvements include: Much better UAC controls Significantly improved legacy driver and software support. Compatibility mode actually works really well now. Really fast cold start -> useable desktop times. Very stable. Loads and runs well on old Pc's and laptops. The old Dell laptop w/ 512 ram loaded right up and runs nicely. I like the networking sharing features that ship with it, though they aren't laid out as nicely as they could be. Things that need improvement: IE8 : It's okay until you add encounter the typical user with their 3-4 toolbars on it. IE8 doesn't handle 3rd party toolbars well. It also has ridiculously restrictive security settings, and makes it next to impossible to turn them off. Thank goodness for FF and Opera. Ships with lots of unneeded things turned on by default. Not a huge surprise, but it would be nice if they were off by default and the user could choose what to turn on. Too many variations of the OS. Just my opinion, but I miss the days of a uniform platform release with windows. Win7 holds the same 'this feels right' vibe for me that XP did back when it launched. XP will hold on for a few more years, but Win7 is IMHO worthy of the upgrade. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Geoff Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: I can't believe this That's the first comment Ive heard like that. VISTA was junk that looked nice but was inferior in every other way. Win7 is vista look-alive but performs like XP and with all the nice goodies and a pleasant interface. This version of windows is actually as good as they claim. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Hill Sent: Tuesday, 26 January 2010 6:25 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: I can't believe this On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Sytze de Boer <[email protected]> wrote: > A client brought in a 2 year old vaio laptop > >From cold boot to wordpad doc, 5 minutes > > Replaced the hard drive (80 gig ssd), installed Windows 7 > > >From cold boot to wordpad doc, 23 secs. > That included 9 secs for Bios start up > > Yeah ok, no other software installed yet (AV etc) > > I want one, NOW You would probably find that XP would be just as fast with a fresh install. I've been using Windows 7 for a few months now and to be honest I find zero improvements over XP... -- Paul [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/003901ca9e85$07347dc0$159d79...@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
