Windows 7 is cooked

Gimme a break. Xp is old. Vista sucks. Windows 7 is great. It's fast and pretty and hardly ever crashes with me anyways. Works awesome. I went from windows xp to windows 7 and was still blown away 2 weeks later. I am still blown away how it is compared to XP.. Even to vista. What can i say. Oh and btw i liked windows ME... even though it did crash and freeze up a bit, because it was faster and lighter than the other stuff.

Windows 7 will be something i'll be buying

Has the author of this article actually used Windows 7. It is everything Vista should have been.

Windows 7 is a great O/S.

If Microsoft is so superstious that the jumped from office 12 to office 14, why did they RTM on July 13th?

i wonder if it does come with a goose in the package? :) :p

The first OS from Microsoft in my recall that uses/needs less memory than the previous release and faster to boot (literally and metaphorically). Sinofsky is baking a strong rep within MS for getting vast and unwieldy projects done.

Come on guys, if you've used Windows 7 you will know its a solid OS.

You say it should be a service pack? You continually moan about Vista being crap, and when they create something better, you think it should be free because the last version they made didn't meet your expectations?

Credit where credit is due, the new interface is fantastic. I use the RC at home and really like it but it does annoy me coming into work and not being able to use Windows 7 features.

Its a solid OS and it deserves praise, not you're biased drivel.

Would it be too much to ask everyone at the Inq to rate things on an individual basis rather than blanket hating all things from particular manufacturers?

windows 7 is the best o/s to come out of redmond for a long time for all the aformentioned reasons, also having better multicore support and memory managment to boot and removign vistas dump multiple DLL compatability method with a monolithic compatability layer was win from the start, cant wait to see how window 7 coded programs run in comparisson or when a program runs in windows 7 mode instead of compatability mode when they code them for the o/s.

also paying 89 quid for the pro version instead of 220 for a full release in the UK is also epic win aswell :D finally a software developer giving the UK some love for once instead of out of proportion prices

All of these comments on here appear to be "paid-for" advertising by MS. The very last REAL STABLE OS was 2000. With the extreme failure of Vista, MS needs all of the help they can get to keep people like me from going with Linux. That's an OS that just never fails. Can MS say that?

@Control Freaks:

Yeah sure, the millions of people who downloaded the beta and RC of Win7 were all paid by Microsoft... get real!

@INQ:
Guys, your one-sided bashing of everything post-XP is getting old. Did you even bother trying Win7 before bashing it?

I think it's interesting reading all of your comments. I think that microsoft are daft releasing a 32bit version of Windows 7 purely on the grounds that modern hardware is pretty much all 64 bit compatible and yet I have a feeling that the system builders will be making the error of installing a 32 bit os as they have done with Vista. 32bit-64bit compatibility isn't the pain in the neck it used to be and normally yeilds performance gains, and that goes double for Windows 7.
Those who are saying Windows XP is still better ah correct, if they are using a pocket calculator as a computer. My Phenom II x4 955 with 8GB of ram boots TWICE as fast into Windows 7 than XP if not faster! Before anyone chimes in about XP only seeing 3GB, you are corect, it's also about 25% of the size of 7 so it won't need the other 5GB that are redundant. Windows 7 like previous operating systems needs new hardware, essentially you will only get decent driver support with hardware made in the past few months and of course the coming years, manufacturers don't care about hardware that's years and years old, and leave it to Microsoft to make sure it works, and when it doesn't you complain at Microsoft, which is doing it to keep you happy, the company you bought the part from doesn't care about you anymore and you're looking a gift horse in the mouth, just dip your hand in your pocket and buy a new one. Generally speaking the only people with issues with Windows 7 are probably using hardware which either isn't powerful enough, or has no known drivers for 7, the same went for all Microsoft Operating systems before it, including everyone's beloved XP.
To be fair, Vista is nearly sorted and running on powerful enough machines (again still stay clear of the £300 PC world deals...unless you enjoy waiting that is) and Windows 7 is coming out.
I've been using Windows 7 RC1 as my main operating system on my current PC since I built it (May this year) and the only trouble I had was getting a sound driver (I was using a Vista one no problems and then got a proper 7 one earlier this month and still no issues) and it kept blue screening which was quickly tracked down to a bad OCZ DDR3 DIMM (Elpida anyone?)
I'm a system builder who has essentially experimented on his own kit to find what would be best for his customers, so far I've been XP all of the way unless people have requested Windows Vista, I finally think that XP has found a worthy successor in Windows 7 and before anyone asks, I would put ubuntu or another flavour of linux on a customers PC if they asked me to.

PS has anyone else noticed there are more people for Windows 7 here than against?

You probably haven't bothered reading up / finding out about Windows 7 - because if you did - you'd realise that actually it's based on a much revised and lightened kernel, which was called MinWin by a some internal guys.

When Intel dropped the ball with P4, AMD could have made some serious inroads into the processor shipments - but it didn't happen, and then Intel came back with the Core series, and we all know the rest.

Watch for a repeat here - Windows 7 is Microsoft's Core, and Vista was Microsoft's Pentium 4.

Remains more advanced, sadly, W7 is 30 years old *bad* ideas packaged in gloss. Microsoft continues to deliver the Trabant of operating systems.

What I don't understand is....what does this offer me? It has to use more resources and thus be slower than XP. Unless it does something beneficial, in a way I'll actually use (functional), then no way will I switch!

Windows 7 is what windows XP should have been, let alone vista.

I can't knock this product, nor can I find where this article knocks it (as other people have commented about) - it works the way an OS should :)

I'm still going the linux route - but have to admit to having preordered 7 as I feel it is the most usable OS to come from m$ since ME.

... and YES it should be free to those poor suckers who have had to suffer vista.

I'm running win7 for almost 1 week now on a fast PC.
I hope their version is more than RC 7100 + online updates otherwise expect trouble.

Example of things I experienced:
-Sometimes losing write rights on my second ntfs partion I only log in as administrator now.
-I just lost my network connection after an optional (automatic) windows update. I coudln't fix it,I did go to yesterday restore point and Win7 kindly said that it failed to restore. Nice!
(obviously got my internet back by now)
-My raid0 is slower than my single drive but that is probably mainly because there are no good drivers yet for win7 64bit.
- One stange thing you have to install DX9c if you want to be able to play games it worked, but strange. (I know DX11 is present).

One positive thing, I didn't have raid driver trouble during install.

Don't worry it will not be my main system for a while, to many important bugs. I'm using XP Pro.

The author of this article clearly does not know what he is talking about. Has he actually gone out and tried the beta and RC version of Windows 7. I tried the RC version on 4 year old hardware and it worked like charm. Running vista on the same hardware had my processor running at 75& usage and the hard drive working the whole time.

Micrsoft has clearly got it right this time round.

@Jordan Appleton I have noticed how more people are for Windows 7 here. Obviously people that can appreciate a decent OS.

But, I felt I had to provide some input on this topic. I have used every os M$ has come out with ( except ME) i knew better.lol anyhow, as far as I am concern I feel that win7 is actually the best os they have come out with in a long time..

ME sucked, and I wasn't fond of vista ( I used it for about a year, and I am currently using win7 RC and boot times have gone from going to get a cup of coffee, to about 30 seconds from power to usable. major improvement, yes my machine is overclocked to hell and back, but it was before as well, and I have to say that 7 feels alot more snappy and responsive, has not crashed on me once in the past month I have been using it.

I have been building and fixing computers for 18 years now, and this is the first time I felt as though it is worth paying for the os. now that says something...( if it weren't for my gaming addiction, i would have switched to linux a long time ago)

It must be costing M$ an absolute fortune for all this posted positivity versus the slash dotty, internet hive-mind. I mean, it couldn't actually be any good, could it? *sobs*

DaRAGE wrote: "Windows 7 is great. It's fast and pretty and hardly ever crashes with me anyways."

The words "hardly ever crashes" in this comment says it all. 2000 is the only stable OS M$ ever produced.

You're right, because other operating systems can fix hardware issues on the fly and magically make 3rd-party drivers flawless.

I bought A nice xps 1530 laptop last year, I almost didnt buy it because it came with vista.Vista just plain sucks. Yes it has improved a little, not much. It takes forever to copy large files,Linux and xp can do it four times faster. I bought a preorder copy of win7 form amazon For $50. And yet I am so mad at having to paid for vista(I dont know how much it was preinstalled)Windows 7 is a little better but it omits the good thing about vista windows mail. It is one of the better mail app. After 2 weeks I finally canceled the windows 7 oreder. I will never pay m$ for another OS again.
Linux works so much better and its free.
Not even to mention about the DRM infected pile of crap is over priced!

Not sure why this keeps coming up as "Vista Sucking" has been the biggest pile of steaming misinformation I've ever seen, I mean driver wise it had a rough start, people love staring at memory usage and bitching about it while completely unaware that they had no performance issues to speak of.

Vista is beautiful, it's slick, and if you know how to use windows a quick TURN OFF UAC and another REMOVE SIDEBAR, and you have a good user experience waiting on you. It's a shame you have to do this things yes but, it was the OSX and Linux communities that kept bitching that windows did not nag you to death about running programs, people MS should never have listened to.

Vista is better than XP unless you are a monkey with downs syndrome and can't manage installed the proper drivers or are installing it on a 10 year old single core pile of crap with 128 Megs of RAM.

I've been using Windows 7 64bit for several months now, first Win7 beta, then Win7 RC. It has NEVER EVER crashed in my computer, so at least in my case, I conclude that it is as rock solid as Windows 2000 (my favourite MS OS by far) but with all the bells and whistles added.

I'm sure I'm tagged as "paid by MS by now" but meh, it's also worthy of mention that the jump in quality and "feel" from Win7 beta to Win7 RC was tremendous. Win7RC is already better than Vista IMHO, so if the final version of Win7 has any improvements over the release candidate there is no reason to stick to XP (unless you don't want to fork cash)

As most of my colleagues above have said, Windows 7 is amazing and Microsoft pay awfully well for this sort of post.

I too failed to read the article correctly, ignoring the complimentary reference to Windows 7 as a serviceable operating system, and misread the slights against Vista as slights against Windows 7.

So without further ado:

Xp is old. Vista sucks. Windows 7 is great.

If MS is reading this I believe you already have my bank details.

Last revision of 64-bit XP came out in '06. I'm running this at home and don't plan on upgrading until driver support falls totally off.

When I want to use a better and newer OS, I just reboot into Linux Mint.

7 is just vista sp2 with a few tweaks, so why release a new os? that's easy, Vista was very poorly received so no matter how much it improves with SPs it will still not sell.

(and yes I have tried windows 7 rtm... it's slower than xp, and particularly unresponsive in the first 15-20 min after boot up, it does offer some improvements, but combine the pain of having everything reorganized(vista style) for no particular reason with the above problems and you'll hardly want to change)

I have never cared for Vista so much so that I still use XP. Vista is ill there is no question about it's like a big strong man with a cold. The hard drive thrashing is ridiculous and my biggest complaint (yes folks I have tried all the work arounds).
BUT that being sad I have had good and pleasurable experiences with Win7 and I do not have any complaint with the 7100 release. I liked it so much I purchased a second drive and dual boot it along with XP and will make the permanent switch when the time comes. I find now that I only need XP for good gaming performance and that will change as the drivers improve.

So PLEASE Inquirer don't spread the FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) just because you obviously hate Microsoft.
You look so foolish and loose any credibility on this subject.

Win7 will be a winner.

I sometimes build old computers for people that can't afford them. A 10 year old dell with a 400mhz cpu and 128 megs of ram will run win98 way faster than almost any computer now running vista, a dual or quad cpu and 4 gb ram.
1. The registry. Win95 could be installed with 3 floppy's. The vista registry could fill a library and it gets bigger with every OS. No other OS uses this outdated bases for an OS.
2. Digital rights Managements.
Every file on your computer must be scanned, have you not noticed the hard drive never stops running.(it does this for other reasons but DRM is a big chuck of why vista is so slow)
3. They moved everything just for the sake of being different not new.
4.It always ask if your application installed right and other stupid warnings and question. (some can be turned off.
4. It spys on you
5.every application runs slower on vista than xp. Newer is supposed to faster not slower.
6.Never ending updates because it is built so poorly.
7.Microsoft has not come up with anything new on its own so it stills ideas from os x and Linux.
8.It is way over priced, anyone who bought vista ultimate fill ripped off?
9. setting up a netowrk is still way to confusing, Os x does a much better job.
10. You still MUST HAVE a anti virus app. If Microsoft builds it, why dooest it fix its own problems for free.
I could go own and on, and yes Microsoft supports a lot of hardware, but so does Linux, and its free and more configurable.
Vista looks pretty and thats where it ends for me.Windows 7 does have slight improvements but anyone that tolerated vista should get windows 7 for free.

I am in the unfortunate position of having to tell you that, although point number 1 is correct (Vista/7 are bigger than Windows 95), points 2 to 10 are wrong and should be researched thoroughly.

Back on topic: rubbish article.

I just installed the RC1 64BIT version last night on my AMD 9550 X4 and it's great and I have just pre-ordeded a copy of Pro from PC World at £90 because I got in the discount ha ha ha so I dont have to pay £180.

I am not a gamer. I dual-boot w2k/debian on my desktop, and run xp on my laptop.

Both w2k and xp work with all my hw and sw. Both OSes are familiar to me, and give me no special trouble.

Yeah, I know, I'm cheap, I'm a dinosaur, why don't I just use win 3.1, blah, blah, blah.

To that I say: that still does not give me any good reason. Furthermore, if you have money to burn, and get all excited over every bit of idiotic "eye candy" then why not use a mac?

So why do I want to give my hard-earned money to a company as evil as microsoft? I will do it, if I have a good reason. So what is the reason?

I have at least three unopened licences for Windows XP Professional that I have not used (and, if I never get around to it, could easily eBay in a flash) - and for the time when 3GB really *isn't* enough, I also have three sealed Windows XP Pro 64-bit editions ready for use.

Don't think I'll be upgrading for a while...

The world is OK with XP. It already does what the world needs. And Linux too.

Everybody talk about the awesomeness of the new OS (or lack of) but I don't see anyone mentioning a single good reason.

That's because there isn't.

Save your money.

So the fan boys that install an OS for 2 weeks are telling us that W7 is bullet proof in every circumstance with every application known to man?

I find it shows how lacking they are that they can't get a fresh install of XP to work bullet proof for two weeks. If that's the case then their opinion is garbage.

I would bet I could fine a few of our corporate applications that would have a problem running without some level of tweaking.
W7 or Vista ME is a piece of software for computers. No amount of verbal garbage will change that REAL professional IT people need to do their due diligence and confirm everything works before moving a whole corporation.
Where is this incredible pressure coming from to spend more money on an OS that has little benefit and their sales pitch isn't impressing anyone of a killer feature?

Keep playing your little video games at half the speed of XP with double the memory footprint. Just remember W7 is a Microsoft product which is expected to contain millions of lines of bugs.

I find it so ironically hypocritical that people whine about "undeserved" bashing of products yet they attempt "undeserved" praise of those same products. In this case, I can accept "it's better than Vista" or "it's decent" but to come here and extol Win 7 as some amazing upgrade that all l33t computer users should have is just plain BS. It makes you wonder why it is so important to some people to take the time and effort to do a company's product marketing for them. If you want to list the explicit ways that it has enhanced your workflow then fine but to say it's "just great" and "runs well" serves no useful purpose and is highly subjective. You biased "promoters" don't realize that you are just as annoying as the biased "bashers" are to you. If I was honestly marketing Win7, the headline would be: "Win 7: It's not necessary but better than Vista".

How in the world can you defend this system and use the crutch, "It's better than Vista ... so it sucks less."

If you want to blow your paychecks on Gates-ware, go ahead and buy this thing, or cash the checks Microsoft sent you to clog up blogs with pro-Microsoft drivel.

We'll soon see if the tune turns sour once it lands on America's hard drives. No doubt, many of you will still try to convince "non-believers" that Microsoft's poop doesn't stink.

You can even buy stock in the film company doing the next series of the "Mojave Desert" heads who are dried up MS users who haven't had a fresh drink of waters in years.

For the ones that keep on digging up the old corpse of win2000.. try install latest MSN (Live Messenger) or Windows Media Player.. last time I tried that maybe 2-3 years ago it just failed to install because of non-compatibility with this old os..

And for those hugging their XP discs.. if it works fine, keep on truckin'

But Vista is still the better OS Tm.

Maybe Seven is even better, have yet to try this incarnation (:

And seriously the author of this article should lay of the booze...

Most of these pro-micro$oft comments remind me of a dipstick "sister-inlaw" during christmas dinner at my good friends house.

My friend and i have been building PC's since 8088 machines(way back) and gaming on dos before windows was invented.

While we were discussing how bad Vista was crashing to desktop in the middle of gaming and how Microsucks killed the EAX surround stuff for our blaster cards,and all the DRM cr@p etc. etc.

Well "Dipstick sister-inlaw" says " Vista works fine for me I have no problems with it." My friend and I look at eachother while we bite our tongues not wanting to make his brother mad and tell the truth.So we had to wait till she left to speak our minds.

We both agreed we wanted to say to the "Dipstick Sister-inlaw" .....Look you computer illiterate half wit. You don't DO ANYTHING with your PC but read some web pages, send some email , and join a chat room at most, Of coasre you won't have problems doing simpleton stuff."

But if we would have told her that , next years christmas dinner would have been hard to handle.

So I truely think most these pro-microsoft fan comments are most likely the same type "Dipsticks" as the half-wit sister-inlaw.

They didn't say its gone RTM, they announced the version that would be RTM, in other words its about to go gold.

A little longer people :)

Btw, a lot of retailers are now receiving their "Vista + upgrade to 7" deals now, be careful of old stock movers trying to flog you one without it.

Sorry, if you truly think that all comments on here that mentions Vista in a positive light are from "dipstick MS fans," then you are clearly more idiotic than you will have others believe.

Sorry, but I think you're the "computer illiterate halfwit." If you couldn't get games to run under Vista, then I'm going to say the problem lies with you and your friend.

I've played many, many games under Vista. A couple of older titles, didn't run properly, but a majority I had ran flawlessly.

Perhaps you and your friend have no idea and should stick to those ancient 8088 machines, as it seems that's the only hardware you seem capable of mastering.

Vista of course isn't perfect. It wasn't exactly rock solid when first released, I've yet to see any software that is. However, for the most part, I've enjoyed it. A few niggling little things annoyed me. But hell, so did XP, Win 9x/ME, even Linux annoys me at
times.

But your post is for nothing but trying to get a rise out of people. Just because you had a crappy experience with a certain OS, doesn't mean that anybody else who found a pleasant experience is some "computer illiterate dipstick, who only surfs the net."

Grow up.

Could be xmas 2011

Must I say mr. Brokeheart, what do you say of the new windows 7?

Well my dear bioar, its a fancy piece of candy i dare say NOT, its like a tub of cheese a little bit fresher, understating the yellow surroundings of its expantions, why not capture the blue around the gray shadow and blink its entirety?

I do say, what about the firey world that has become of it? The world? The sky is blue, yet there are tabs in each red, the grayed from the black, yet favorites remain.

Concluding the conclusion of the gist of the summary of the white black, purple, red, orange, black, and black yet again, since it weighs more, the turquise tulip of the pulseating heat circumvents orange reflection of firey substance, ready to embrace the shuebox of the leather hand made chair.

good day.

This ME II SP7? That alone says this writer is a hack job.

This tory is now linked on many actual tech sites, and most are laughing at how clueless the author is.

Like a previous poster said, Win2K was the Ms's BEST OS so far. The most stable, fastest one yet. Also like a previous poster said "give credit where credit is due"

Win2K ftw

The OS that Vista should have been...

The Windows 95 kernal is back!? Fantastic, I miss DOS!
Seriously Vista was ME II in how it was accepted publicly.

The way people throw around different versions of Windows these days, makes you think they don't know the difference between the Win 95 and Win NT kernal.
It's like explaining what NeXTStep is to an OS X user. Oooh so it is all BSD you say ummmm lol

I've been using the RC for the last couple of months, and I'm quite impressed. It's not as good as I hoped it would be (still some driver issues), but way better than I expected it to be.
It uses less memory than WinXP Pro to do basically the same things, it *really* auto-recovers when the Radeon drivers crash (annoying while gaming, but better than not recovering - pity they crash in the first place though), and the startup/shutdown sequences are faster.
I quite like it.

Its not NexTStep you noob.... Its New Technology. You talk as if you know something about the NT kernel but don't even know what it stands for....

Oh btw.

I used Vista ultimate x64 for 2 years on a Quad 8GB monster and had no real issues. I was really only using vista for dx10. I have been using win 7 betas for a while now and am quite pleased. I would go as far to say that it is THE BEST OS M$ has ever produced (Ive been using different M$ OS' from 3.1) Read the words in the last statement. If you don't like windows 7, you don't know what your doing and should probably not be using a computer in the first place. If you are wondering why you should upgrade from XP, you probably shouldn't because your computer is most likely way to slow for MODERN SOFTWARE. You cant put Modern Software on OUTDATED HARDWARE. Get a new computer, or better yet build one yourself.

And The Author of this should take a practical look at journalism. Maybe you should TRY a product before you bash it. I cant see one thing that I didn't like about it...

Hhhmmm.....Dubbs, you just made yourself look a little silly. He wasn't talking about NT when he said NexTStep, he was talking about an even older OS that you don't know about and proved that he knows more about IT than you do. The reason it was mentioned along with OS X is because, surprise surprise, it was the OS on the first computer made by Steve Jobs!
Remember, when you're unsure of something, or are about to flame another person: Google is your friend. Oh, and if you decide that maybe you want to look more in to it and not appear like a 'noob' next time it's mentioned, have a look here: http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/whatismacosx//history.html

Im not really sure why everyone hates vista... yea, it sucked for 64bit at first, no good drivers, lots o crashes. But now even on my not so standard 780i, vista 64 is rock solid, fast, and tons better than xp ever was.

i can't really imagine windows 7 being any better other than interface which is purely subjective anyway.

I don't play games and even if I did DirectX 10(.1) doesn't seem any better. Speed difference is practically irrelevant. Eye candy is alright, but who cares. Interface is no more productive or innovative. About the only possible plus is that the 64 bit version will produce more support for 64 bit drivers.

MWolf has the best point yet. M$ is not really doing what the public needs but instead it's doing what M$ needs ... and that is a continued collecting of YOUR MONEY.PERIOD

I been running windows Seven along side my company Xp pro setup since beta. Now at first there was a hang up here and there but now that i have this running with W7rc1. Business wise i can't see why you couldn't switch over to it unless you have some really old ass software you positively cannot upgrade.

Notice i didn't say you must buy it because its the best thing ever.
I simply stated it works just fine.

It's as rock steady as my trusty xp which I'm personally impressed by considering it hasn't even gone gold yet. I couldn't say that with all the other oses through the years.

For it being slow on gaming rigs. My son and I slapped it on ours and haven'
t noticed a lack speed in any of the games we like to play.

So overall I like this new one.

The only real thing i could complain about and don't, is it doesn't want to play with my printer. Which really has everything to do with the Manufacturer
of said printer than the os itself.

So take my comment any way you wish. It works and it does what its supposed to do. That in the end is the bottom line.

I've never had a problem with Vista 64 or using the RC of Windows 7.....I do think that Windows 7 is better though. I think its funny that people bash Microsoft products but I've had more problems running Linux than any version of Windows....minus ME of course