Top 10 reasons to buy Windows 7
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Please tell me I will not have to deal with burning forest fire as a background color to dialogs, as per the screenshots in that link? What idiot came up with that background? Marc
I'm not overthinking the problem, I just felt like I needed a small, unimportant, uninteresting rant! - Martin Hart Turner
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>> Get quicker access to all of your stuff How much time does it take to launch a program though? 2 clicks for most programs on the XP personalized start menu (1 click if even that bothers you and you enable the quick launch bar). And documents just on the MRU list within the file menus of those apps. >> Manage open windows more easily You've always been able to resize and arrange windows in that way - I guess they mean snapping features. Now I just wish MS would start making their dialogs resizable instead of fixed sized windows containing tiny lists with lots of data. >> Quickly find what you’re looking for I hate indexing etc it just slows down HD access for other apps and causes annoying HD access noise when idle. If you want to find a text string inside a large binary file it probably won't be indexed anyway. I tend to know where my files are and rarely need to search - the main search I do is for text within a Visual Studio solution and I use the search within VS for that. >> Share files and printers among multiple PCs Have been doing this since Win 95 and I'm guessing there were easy ways to do it before then also. Don't see anything new here. Right clicking a folder or printer and selecting Sharing and Security isn't exactly difficult either. >> Stay entertained effortlessly Wonder if they've fixed the bugs in Media Center yet. My MCE 2005 used to crash about 25% of the times I brought up the TV Guide and after waiting a year with no fixes I gave up and switched to MediaPortal. >> Easily create and share movies Windows Movie Maker is already in XP. >> Connect to networks easily Don't know what they've changed here, but I don't have any problems with it at present. >> Do more and wait less If STR works more reliably that's good, though I suspect many drivers still won't co-operate properly. If it's more responsive by doing less blocking operations on the UI thread that's good as long as they're not making rarely used features (like search) faster at the expense of something else (indexing that slows down general use). >> Touch and tap rather than point and click Great, so they want me to buy a touch screen monitor and get fingerprints all over it. Think I'll stick to using a mouse thanks. >> Manage devices more easily (from a single, consistent, place) You mean device manager?
Yea, I don't get it either. Stuff that has been part of the OS for years touted as something new even though all it got was a minor upgrade. They act like they weren't already there. Things available to XP for years now by 3rd party folks (Google's search is about as good as theirs) is somehow an amazing feature. And the touch screen thing made me cringe. Very few people like those touch screens because they force you to operate for long periods of time with your hands above your heart. This position is stressful to the heart as your cirulatory system actually isn't well able to handle it. Unless they make touch screens like architect desks where you have an inclinded surface you look down at and work on, the touch PCs aren't going to do all that well. Tablets aren't exactly flying off the shelves.
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Yea, I don't get it either. Stuff that has been part of the OS for years touted as something new even though all it got was a minor upgrade. They act like they weren't already there. Things available to XP for years now by 3rd party folks (Google's search is about as good as theirs) is somehow an amazing feature. And the touch screen thing made me cringe. Very few people like those touch screens because they force you to operate for long periods of time with your hands above your heart. This position is stressful to the heart as your cirulatory system actually isn't well able to handle it. Unless they make touch screens like architect desks where you have an inclinded surface you look down at and work on, the touch PCs aren't going to do all that well. Tablets aren't exactly flying off the shelves.
Maybe Windows 8, or whatever they decide to call it, will include speech recognition / voice-operated commands ;P
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... Because it's pre-installed on a new machine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ok, here's my setup at home: On the right, I'm running an old Core 2 Duo with XP... On the left, I'm running a brand new quad-core phenom II with crossfired radeons and all the good stuff... The new box was just upgraded last night from Vista to W7 (Had almost nothing installed, so a relatively-clean transition). Here's what I'm noticing so far... 1) The taskbar is weird, and I kinda miss my captions, but I'm giving it a chance. 2) Vista looked prettier. 3) It's a lot more stable than Vista 4) W7 is at least five times as fast as Vista, but still half the speed of XP, on much better hardware.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Developer, Author (Guardians of Xen)
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... Because it's pre-installed on a new machine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
How about "It's not Vista" ? I'm hoping that will work for me.
Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)
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Please tell me I will not have to deal with burning forest fire as a background color to dialogs, as per the screenshots in that link? What idiot came up with that background? Marc
I'm not overthinking the problem, I just felt like I needed a small, unimportant, uninteresting rant! - Martin Hart Turner
Right, Marc. There are other pleasing background options like Green and gold fusion, fuschia and violet, Solid Magenta, etc., As a matter of fact, Windows 7 is highly customisable... That's what they want to show with that background. ;)
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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Ok, here's my setup at home: On the right, I'm running an old Core 2 Duo with XP... On the left, I'm running a brand new quad-core phenom II with crossfired radeons and all the good stuff... The new box was just upgraded last night from Vista to W7 (Had almost nothing installed, so a relatively-clean transition). Here's what I'm noticing so far... 1) The taskbar is weird, and I kinda miss my captions, but I'm giving it a chance. 2) Vista looked prettier. 3) It's a lot more stable than Vista 4) W7 is at least five times as fast as Vista, but still half the speed of XP, on much better hardware.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Developer, Author (Guardians of Xen)
Ian Shlasko wrote:
- The taskbar is weird, and I kinda miss my captions, but I'm giving it a chance.
You can bring them back. It's somewhere on taskbar options. The only things you can't revert is the separation between task and quick launch items, and while you can split each instance of an app into a separate icon they remain next to each other in all circumstances.
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
- The taskbar is weird, and I kinda miss my captions, but I'm giving it a chance.
You can bring them back. It's somewhere on taskbar options. The only things you can't revert is the separation between task and quick launch items, and while you can split each instance of an app into a separate icon they remain next to each other in all circumstances.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
You can bring back the quick launch. -Left click on the task bar. -Toolbars -New Toolbar... -enter: C:\Users\
YourYsername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch