On Mon, 4 May 2009 13:17:24 -0700, Keith J. Farmer" <kfar...@thuban.org> wrote: > Might I suggest: the fact that it doesn't have "Vista" on the label? > > Don't get me wrong, Win7 is a great advance over Vista -- I'm using it > exclusively at home and have been since the beta, but the only differences > from Vista (whch I use on my work laptop until tomorrow) that I encounter > day-to-day are the superbar and the smoother processing (see Russinovich's > video about detangling the scheduler that was passed down from times long > forgotten). If you can't put your finger one a reason, I suspect the reason > has more to do with a (subconscious) attitude about Vista that you don't have > about Win7 (and Vista had a *lot* of social baggage from the start that was > never properly handled).
Well, I can't completely rule that out, although of course I want to believe that I am immune from that kind of psychological prejudice. There is more to it than that, however. When I started moving my driver work to Vista, it felt like I was doing battle against the operating system at every turn. It seemed to be actively interfering with the tasks I needed to do to get my job done. I don't have that sense with Win 7, even though I'm running 64-bit, which has additional driver restrictions. For what it's worth, we had a short discussion on the OSR driver developer's mailing list this morning, and it appears that I am not the only curmudgeon who is having this change of heart. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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