Windows 7 Could Shine Vista's Tarnished Image
Microsoft thinks that the positive vibes from Windows 7 will spread to Vista.
With Windows 7 in the can and soon to be released to the world, Microsoft must be relieved that it can finally wash away all the negative feedback that it had to endure because of Windows Vista.
Despite all the important and positive infrastructure changes introduced with Windows Vista, users found the OS to be bulky, slow and not worth upgrading from Windows XP.
Windows 7 aims to fix all the wrongs of Vista and to start with a fresh, positive image of Microsoft's operating system. So far, all the early impressions from users of the beta and RC versions of Windows 7 have been positive. Interestingly enough, Microsoft believes that all the warm, fuzzy feelings surrounding Windows 7 will actually boost the image and reputation of Windows Vista.
"I think people will look back on Vista after the Windows 7 release and realize that there were actually a bunch of good things there [in Windows Vista]," said Steve Guggenheimer, vice president of the OEM division at Microsoft, in a ChannelWeb story. "So it'll actually be interesting to see in two years what the perception is of Vista."
Windows 7 is built off from the same code foundation as Windows Vista, leading some to call the upcoming OS as just a "second edition." But many of the changes and improvement in Windows 7 are crucial to a better user experience, which is in the end what determines popular opinion.
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Vista is just awful. I bought a new computer last weekend and with vista it just seems my new computer is already old. it feels like driving a car from 1950 - sluggish. it takes 10 seconds to start firefox, slower than on my ancient 5 year old XP laptop. Im sorry but this is not progress. I hope for microsoft they improve things with windows 7. I for one switched to ubuntu.
That does sound to me like "Vista should now be viewed as the Windows 7 beta". I'm not queuing up to kick Vista (I don't like it, but didn't violently hate it), but I would be a little annoyed if I'd bought Vista and saw Microsoft treating it like the mad aunt in the attic.
Vista is just awful. I bought a new computer last weekend and with vista it just seems my new computer is already old. it feels like driving a car from 1950 - sluggish. it takes 10 seconds to start firefox, slower than on my ancient 5 year old XP laptop. Im sorry but this is not progress. I hope for microsoft they improve things with windows 7. I for one switched to ubuntu.
That ain't vista, that is either your computer or you that is the problem.
Microsoft have no other choice but to treat it as they do, they tried using the mojave campaighn which was somewhat talked about but still, when you have ignorant masses to deal with, you treat them as a lowest common denominator. This is what you are seeing, it is not a reflection of vista or of windows 7 just of ignorant public opinion.
Indeed what else do you expect when you have customers like niels.
In a couple of years time, everybody will still be saying that WIndows XP was the best and most successful MS OS. And people will all say thank god Win7 came along to replace Vista. If it wasn't for the lack of DirectX 10 support, MS would still have large sales of XP even now. Anyway roll on DX11 !
Install Vista and disable:
Indexing Service
Prefetch
Superfetch
Automatic Restore Points
Enable booting with all cpu cores
Buy 4+ Gb memory and disable Swapfile/paging
....and so forth
Vista will then work great, and the new functions + system stability will make win XP seem 10+ years old
Vista when properly resourced works nearly as well as W7. The problem was that MS insisted in trying to tell people that Visa didn't need any extra resources which it clearly did. That along with all the misleading branding of things that were only just Vista capable gave end users a horrible experience. As said its not Vista,s fault.
W7 is basically a full out apology for Vista in as much as MS are know seeming to be bending over backwards(free RC on a massive scale, V cheap pre-orders)to give us a very usable OS that will run well on a variety of systems people already have and in itself in some cases is as good as a hardware upgrade.
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well then tell me, strangestranger, what kind of a customer should I be?
That ain't vista, that is either your computer or you that is the problem. Microsoft have no other choice but to treat it as they do, they tried using the mojave campaighn which was somewhat talked about but still, when you have ignorant masses to deal with, you treat them as a lowest common denominator. This is what you are seeing, it is not a reflection of vista or of windows 7 just of ignorant public opinion.Indeed what else do you expect when you have customers like niels.
So tell me strangestranger, what kind of a customer should I be?
Somebody who tries to figure out what the problem rather than just blame an OS.
Seriously, do you think anyone would use vista if on a new computer it took 10 seconds to open a simple web browser?