First of all, will you buy it? Do you think that Windows 7 will make your life easier? What do you expect from Windows 7?
I know, i am asking too many questions. But i wonder if people have big expectations from Windows 7. Actually, i have. In XP i’ve never seen the blue screen. But in Vista i see it daily. Even some days 2-3 times. My friends have the same complain. I expect that Microsoft will solve that kind of problems in Windows 7.
And i expect more from Microsoft. Due to its new kernel (minwin) i expectit will run faster. In Vista, i am afraid of enabling the gadgets. At startup, they start in 2-3 minutes. I hope this will be fixed in Windows 7.
These are my main expectations from Windows 7. I believe that even if these expectations are not realized in Windows 7, Microsoft will make a better OS than Vista.
So i am thinking to buy it when it is released. Please comment what you are thinking and please join our poll on the right side panel of site.
Thanks,
M. Dikici
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April 2nd, 2009 at 4:26 pm
In my own experience, it is the contrary. I’ve seen XP BSOD too many times, and very few in vista. And 99% of the time this was due to faulty 3rd party drivers or hardware, in Vista as in XP. I must agree though with your point about gadgets, they slow down startup time a lot. My first test-drive with 7 Beta is much more positive regarding gadgets.
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:45 pm
I’ll be downloading it illegally like most people
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:30 am
I’ve only gotten a BSOD once or twice in Vista (used it since it entered Beta and until the beta release of Windows 7), way more frequently in XP. So far, I’m really liking the new task bar and that alone will get me to upgrade. (hey, why not?)
Compared to Vista, Windows 7 seems to start up faster after putting it to sleep. Admittedly, I haven’t timed it and this may just be perception. Still, that’s useful for my laptop which goes in and out of sleep-mode all the time.
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:51 am
Knowing how Microsoft lets out programs that 99% of the time, are not fully tested and “bug” free…
Probably well over a year—after the so-called “final” versions(s) come out.
Better to “safe; then, terribly—–sorry”…..
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:06 am
Well i dont see much difference between Vista and Windows 7 for an average user. You get the same looks. Gadgets are available in Vista. For a professional user who needs performance, this would be beneficial upgrading to win 7.
For me i still like XP just for its compatability with every softwares old and new.
April 4th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Hmm, 2 or 3 BSODs per day? Are you sure? I remember on my old Compaq Presario made for Windows 98 I would experience an infinite amount of BSODs when I switched to XP. Then when I got an HP with Windows XP, I would get BSODs occasionally, but that same computer with Vista, and now 7 has not ever shown me a Blue Screen. In the case of my laptops, my old alienware m5500 had blue screens with Vista and XP but only if I left it on my bed by mistake and it got way too hot. The newer alienware m15x hasnt shown a BSOD once but has locked up about 10 times in a year, and both with Vista and 7, but also because of me letting it get too hot on my bed (forgetting to turn on the power saving mode). So in a way, Vista and 7 are more reliable than XP. Especially 7 since it is a beta but seems to be almost like a stable high quality release.
April 9th, 2009 at 5:03 am
I’ve only ever had about 2 or 3 BSOD’s on my Vista SP0 Laptop, those instances were due to me killing some vital windows processes or one of my programs getting in a horrific loop and starting itself thousands of times…
XP I was often getting a BSOD.
April 10th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
I just finally installed last night, and I am seriously impressed. I saw very early how horrible vista was, so I never got it, but I will be getting 7 very early after release. This is the first os that I have actually been excited about.
April 10th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
As for me, XP was a good OS in it’s time, but it is way past time to move on. Vista is a pretty good OS with SP1 installed. Vista RTM was just not ready and was a bit rushed.
I have been using Windows 7. I have to say, this is a pretty solid OS. It feels like Vista SP1 but better. I love the new setup for home networking. Makes things a lot easier to share files between computers. The new taskbar blows Vista’s taskbar out of the water. I love how it simplifies everything. I also like how the help system has been updated.
So when am I going to upgrade? Simply, I am not, I am going to do a fresh install once it is RTMed. I am even going to be purchasing a new laptop with Windows 7 already on it. I am looking at a touch screen laptop too. Not a big fan of upgrading.
April 15th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
After using the beta it’s clear windows 7 is vista fixed with much of the shit removed and a more efficient gfx system.
This is why the beta is actually better than vista and it is, faster more stable, great. I’m talking about the x64 version here.
Even seems to have better compatibility with games built for xp.
I’m no windows fan boy in fact I’ve never bought a windows os as they have been in my opinion broken and I don’t buy broken products, windows 7 actually seems to be a the first release Microsoft have actually done proper beta testing on, I’ll happily pick up a copy if it’s priced below $150.00 for oem. If they want their insane $400+ for an os like shitty vista guess it will not be
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:25 pm
I want to buy Windows 7 because I’d like to see something new, new features.
M. Dikici, hey, what are you talking about??? Vista is not that bad as you said!!!! I’m using Vista more than 2 years and never met those “problems”.!!!!!
April 25th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
I’ve been running XP pretty trouble free for years now. I can’t recall the last time (other than a piece of hardware that was starting to fail, actually) I got a blue screen in it.
I downloaded and tried out Vista’s RC when it was available, and my impression was “Eh… I don’t think so.” It was sluggish, though I expected that from a RC, but there were so many “not quite there” features I decided to give it a pass.
Win7’s beta came out, and I decided to give it a try - going for the full 64 bit OS (as I do run quite a bit at once, typically, and accessing more memory would be a good thing.) I’m at the point where I’d buy it *now,* even with some of the bugs in it. I didn’t come in expecting greatness - it’s a beta, after all - but I am seriously impressed. Something I don’t think I’ve said about a Windows OS… well, ever.
I’m watching for when it’s planned to be released. My biggest sticking point will be the price - that aside, I’m planning on building a machine for it, which won’t see another OS. I’ll likely do a clean install of it on my current machine, as well, though it will be a tad long in the tooth by then.
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:57 am
I’ve had a few of the betas of 7 so far and im really enjoying it. Not only does it perform on my bulky desktop, but it also performs well on my less bulky hp 6710p laptop. That is impressive enough from watching vista lag on that machine. What i really like from 7 is how fast it boots up, even with a couple gadgets running at start up. However i realized that this is just a blank OS with no real data or apps installed. So i installed some programs and copied over about 60 gigs of music (just to make things interesting). To my suprise, 7 still flies thru boot up and gadgets seem to launch almost immediately. Another great thing is shutdown/reboot time. These sort of things dont seem like a big deal but as a technician, when I work on hundreds of machines a week and do installs/reinstalls, or anything that requires a reboot, its very frustrating when the OS takes a long time to reboot. I can’t get the full idea of how 7 will act in an environment, unless we put it in that envirnment, so for that, i am very anxious to see how it does. From my experiments so far tho, i am really enjoying working with the newer interface and all that goes along with it. to relate back to your original questions, i think 7 is going to be a vast improvement over Vista, and yes even XP. In my opinion from what i have seen so far, it will definitly be worth it to upgrade from XP or Vista to 7, especially Vista!
I have heard a rumor that if you have vista now, microsoft will give you a free upgrade to 7. The validity of that rumor, i dont know, but from a customer service standpoint, theyd be VERY smart to do this. I hope this is the case, but id still buy 7 regardless.
May 6th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I use windows only for gaming for the rest I am on a mac. But I must say that thought vista provides pretty visual effects, the best version of windows I used so far has been windows xp sp3. For the rest the next version Windows 7 seems to be attractive but must really use it before buying a copy.
May 9th, 2009 at 8:20 am
i like win 7, but i will use it up to the extend of the law, 6-1-2010, after that i will not return to Vista so im looking linux as an alternative.
M$ Laws….
May 9th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Will buy it for sure! I am excited aboutthis new OS, the work MS has been putting in this is remarkable.
June 5th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
I’m using Win7 right now…
I like that the new function that when you drag a maximized window to another screen, you wouldn’t need to restore the windows to normal size before you do so. And same thing after you dragged to another screen, you just put it on the top edge of screen, it will automatically maximized the window. (All in one step)
And 32bit version support more than 4GB of memory. So my old devices can still use in Win7×32.
But the task bar still stuck (won’t auto-hide) sometime, like every previous Windows does.
The trouble to unmount a USB device has reduce somehow, but still happen sometime. Always something using it before you know.
Overall, I like this OS better, because of its new and some new features. And for the crash-free improvement? It would be great, but it is not really my concern, since it doesn’t happen that frequently to me either on Xp or Vista.
June 21st, 2009 at 10:04 pm
I installed Windows 7 RC when I got stucked with Windows Vista Home Premium kept updating an unknown application (most likely Adobe reader) before the log-in screen and wouldn’t stop rebooting. Surprisingly Windows 7 was successfully installed, most likely in upgrade mode because it rendered all my previous files on Vista intact, including my dual-boot (wubied) Ubuntu 9.04. The booting time is long on fresh boot, however reboot is fast. It looks like a decent OS. I would certainly acquire Windows 7 if the prise is right, like aound $100 Canadian. I have also installed Windows 7 on my eight years old HP Pavilion 7935 which only 512 Mb maximum allowed RAM on it. It does have a decent PCI Nvidia Geforce FX5200 on the machine. The machine runs slow but it seems more decent than the Windows XP Home it had before. Windows XP seems to bogg down every now and then and required OS reinstallation at least one a year.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
well i have had only 2 probs with vista home premium in 6 months #1 i tried to stop service pack2 for vista downloading and i had to restore comp and #2 tried it again to stop service pack 2 big mistake #3 i let it download and bingo no probs here
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:33 am
I will not be allowing any of my 100 plus business’s to move to windows 7 because, I paid full price for Vista Ultimate and it bombed. Anyone that bought Vista Ultimate should get a copy of 7 for $10. I will keep my clients on XP untill Microsoft gets this point. And if microsoft doesn’t get a iphone killer by XMAS they have failed and i don’t believe they will recover from that FUBAR.
October 4th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
I’ve installed just now the Windows 7, but it took me around 4 to 5 hours to installation to complete, before I could boot the Windows. Then Windows started, seems fine, but it is running very slow slow slow, I looked with TaskManager and could see that most of times were the CPU occupied with the CSRSS.exe and by the Task manager itself, running almost all the time with 100% CPU busy, that’s because I have Dual core. I can’t understand what is going wrong in the environment. I should understand the problem should be caused by old hardwares, but then it should run slowly, but not using 100% CPU time. I am running Windows 7 Beta in 64bit mode, ina dual core CPU with 2.4 Ghz
October 16th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I have intalled Windows 7 on my pc for a month. I like it much, but the only and main problem for me is that it’s not able to run some games
Anyway, its better than Vista..!
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:54 pm
I´ve heard, from a friend, that the same problem experienced by me happened during a TV show in Japan, during presentation of the Windows 7 ina a Morning Report show. The MS representative tried to use the Touch Screen to use the system, and nothing happened, or if something happened, it took too much time to open and drag the windows. It is on Google and I think can be seen on YouTube. What happens ? They didn’t test it before going on air ?
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:54 pm
I´ve heard, from a friend, that the same problem experienced by me happened during a TV show in Japan, during presentation of the Windows 7 ina a Morning Report show. The MS representative tried to use the Touch Screen to use the system, and nothing happened, or if something happened, it took too much time to open and drag the windows. It is on Google and I think can be seen on YouTube. What happens ? They didn’t test it before going on air ?7100