dude u rock serously…
Having used all the MS OSes from late version of MSDOS onwards, I have formed the impression that they alternate between good an bad:
Win3: Big step up from what came before
Win95: slow and flaky
Win98: much better
WinME: slow and flaky
WinXP: much better
Vista: slow and flaky
If the pattern continues to hold then Win7 is a winner.
I generally skip every other every major release edition on MS software (SQL svr, VS, Office) and I advise clients to do that with server s/w. Upgrading is expensive - think s/w cost, effort, disruption, training - and the new features usually do not warrant it.
Win7 looks like a worthwhile upgrade.
W7’s calc.exe is only better than Vista’s because it’s a ripoff of the one in KDE 4.0. Like most of Windows 7…
Why would anyone choose a slow resource hogging “Unused RAM is Wasted RAM” OS such as Vista or Windows 7 when a lean Windows XP Professional performs faster in every operation?
I develop software for clients and users. If the users are still on IE6 then my web apps have to be usable in IE6. If the users are still on WinXP then my apps have to be usable on WinXP, else I have no work, my mortage doesn’t get paid, my house gets reposessed and my family starve (not really, but you get the gist).
No matter how cool and efficient Win7 is, I have to stick with XP until Win7 reaches critical mass and I can afford to ignore the laggers.
I have been using Windows 7 RTM for about 2 weeks, and I’m really disappointed. I had seen positive reviews about 7, but what I see is just a polished version of Vista. Ok it looks better, but for example the slow copy/move/delete problem of Vista is present at 7, it still can’t do those functions as fast as XP. And I really can’t get used to this libraries thing and the new Windows Explorer. I’m not even getting into the horribly messed up control panel. I can mention loads of other stuff, I am really fed up with M$, if I wasn’t a gamer I wouldn’t wait a second to install Linux, but now I’m going back to XP. Vista & 7 will always be great reminders of how you can take a working thing and make it much worse while trying to improve it, just like the new episodes of Star Wars.
so we’ve all been beta testing windows 7 for the last 3 years ( beta name - vista ) and now we have to PAY for the finished product ( final release name - windows 7 )
outrageous , microsoft should be giving all us beta testers ( vista users ) free copies of windows 7 - at the very least , its totally totally wrong to be charging again for this.
it is ‘vista v1.0 final release - post beta’ called windows 7 .
“Win3: Big step up from what came before
Win95: slow and flaky
Win98: much better
WinME: slow and flaky
WinXP: much better
Vista: slow and flaky
If the pattern continues to hold then Win7 is a winner.” - Micheal G.
And I think you really have it nailed. The reason that people stick with their previous releases is because, though MS is predictable, they KNOW they have a quality, once in a while product.
If they have something that sucks, they will go to it immediatly.
If the world was using Vista, and MS left the Win7 prospect alone for 6 more years, then there wouldn’t be much trouble with upgrading. But, MS releases these things so quickly that sticking with an old version until the next is proven is still a good prospect. I really don’t see the problem with sticking with a 9 year old OS.
Its not the OS that counts nearly as much as the programs. If XP can be modularly upgraded through DLL’s to be able to run the latest software, then why upgrade? I don’t have sympathy for the users of Win98, since that OS is dated. But, XP isn’t feeling dated. Its feeling relatively modern. It can run the latest Visual Studio. It can run Blender 4.9a. It can run IE8 / Firefox 3.5. These programs are highly modernized, and are reliable and usable. The OS is a shell. The ability to give us acess to the yoke on the inside is what counts.
“Windows 7: The Best Vista Service Pack Ever”… not really: try Ubuntu… 
I would definitely use an Abercrombie & Fitch OS.
Click the Polo to start.
Just to throw my two cents into the fray:
I have nothing against Vista, yet I use XP. Why?
I’ve obtained 4 different copies of Vista, various copies of 32b and 64b with and without SP1 preinstalled, and NONE of the installers will get past the opening screen on my computer. The upgrade advisor doesn’t have an issue with my computer, and I’ve tried both upgrading from XP and clean install.
Here’s hoping that Windows 7 is not so fundamentally broken.
When Windows 7 offers more something more than XP, then ill think about moving. Fan boys want Windows to have the “coolness” of MacOS and what is what Microsoft are trying to do.
Who cares what it looks like ? performance is what counts. Going to Windows 7 is a decreased in performance.
What you get in return is… more annoying pop ups, that users will click “continue” to blindley… how is this better security? Sure the model is better, but that means nothing if you dont teach your users.
As pointed out, Windows 7 is just the next revision of Vista… so why not just release (yet) another Service Pack? Microsoft are steping away from the Vista name because of its bad rap, and rightfully so.
I’m not fooled by Microsoft’s attempt to fool its users into buying yet another god damn operating system they simply dont need!
If you want a pretty OS, then sure… Windows 7 away…
I have remained on XP because they’ve made a disaster out of Windows Explorer. No question of upgrading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_removed_from_Windows_Vista
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_removed_from_Windows_7
Enuf said. XP FTW!
From multiple sources (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_desktop_operating_systems), it’s quite evident that XP is still the OS of choice and willl be for many years to come. Even at the end of 2009, XP dominates with what? 70%!!! If you only consider US, still 60%!!! Are these all ghost people using XP subconsciously?
Proof windows 7 is a service pack, Read windows 7 dialog box during Windows defender installation, it says defender is already installed on VISTA. Photo proof on my web page:
http://sites.google.com/site/windows7isavistasevicepack/home
I like 7 but don’t like getting conned into thinking it is a new os.
I’ve had enough of the REGISTRY, VIRII, DEFRAG, NTFS, EXPENSE, TIME & GIGABYTE WASTING, OVERBLOATED, UNRELIABILE, RIGID, INCONSISTENT, BACKWARDLY HALF-COMPATIBLE, USW…ETC M$ products. Flexiware is the future.
ZKD
This is only natural, after all windows XP was just windows 2000 SP4 
12 gigabytes?! Ooohhhhhh, noooooooooo! Oh, man! 12 gigabytes! How am I ever going to find enough hard drive space for all 12? I’m going back to Windows 2000!
A number of your points are inaccurate. For example, Windows has had file encryption (EFS) since long before OS X offered an equivalent. Furthermore, EFS is built into the filesystem and is superior in many ways.
Bitlocker is different from EFS. It is full-drive encryption and works in tandem with a TPM to secure the boot process. OS X does not offer this functionality (and neither does TrueCrypt). Also, both Bitlocker and EFS have a great deal of enterprise management functionality built-in.