Raven
3rd August, 2009, 12:56 AM
Just to get a general and honest opinion from others as to what you think of Windows7 so far.
Me personally, to be honest, initially I thought it was good, it's certainly faster and more responsive than Vista and alot more convenient out of the box....so initial opinion is very good, but using it some more and I have to say that in my honest opinion XP and Vista are better for 1 reason - functionality. This might be nitpicky to some, but to alot of others it's going to be totally understandable - in Windows 7 they removed the ability to manually arrange files within folders - now you are forced into either putting up with it as is or having to rename your file just to make it fit how and where you want it to....which to me is shit. It's like at what point does slight speed/response gain overule functionality ? It shouldn't, not ever. This is quite clearly a major oversight by MS, and if the OS is released as is then this is the first thing that mainstream families will notice and will be the first slight on the operating system.
But what frustrates me is that Vista had a very rocky start, and popular opinion took over and the rest is now history....and yet Windows7 is seen as the Windows savior when the sad fact is it's basically 98% Vista at this point especially presentationally, but tweaked for slight convenience and slight response but having had features and basic functionality removed for the privelige.
In fact one really cool thing about Windows 7 was the animated orb boot screen, and other visual tweaks to Aero fade on some windows like the My Computer Properties page, but even these things were inexplicably taken out in the latest beta and RTM in favor of Vista's boot screen etc which further still takes away from Windows 7's individuality....now correct me if I'm wrong but if you have an unpopular operating system do you then purposely make your new one look and sound exactly the same ?
One thing I'm not after is judgement or popular opinion, what I want is for people to be honest and talk straight about their opinions on Windows 7 without fear of judgement or ridicule....and I think this is the place to facilitate that.
Me personally I don't think Vista is anywhere near as bad as popular opinion makes it out to be, I know I'm in the minority on this one but that to me is just a simple fact aswell as being my own opinion. I also do not think that Windows 7 is the savior of Windows even though that is what some people are hyping it as, quite frankly I don't even think Windows 7 is better than Windows Vista in all honesty, not when you consider the similarities at this point and the response vs functionality difference.
Me personally, to be honest, initially I thought it was good, it's certainly faster and more responsive than Vista and alot more convenient out of the box....so initial opinion is very good, but using it some more and I have to say that in my honest opinion XP and Vista are better for 1 reason - functionality. This might be nitpicky to some, but to alot of others it's going to be totally understandable - in Windows 7 they removed the ability to manually arrange files within folders - now you are forced into either putting up with it as is or having to rename your file just to make it fit how and where you want it to....which to me is shit. It's like at what point does slight speed/response gain overule functionality ? It shouldn't, not ever. This is quite clearly a major oversight by MS, and if the OS is released as is then this is the first thing that mainstream families will notice and will be the first slight on the operating system.
But what frustrates me is that Vista had a very rocky start, and popular opinion took over and the rest is now history....and yet Windows7 is seen as the Windows savior when the sad fact is it's basically 98% Vista at this point especially presentationally, but tweaked for slight convenience and slight response but having had features and basic functionality removed for the privelige.
In fact one really cool thing about Windows 7 was the animated orb boot screen, and other visual tweaks to Aero fade on some windows like the My Computer Properties page, but even these things were inexplicably taken out in the latest beta and RTM in favor of Vista's boot screen etc which further still takes away from Windows 7's individuality....now correct me if I'm wrong but if you have an unpopular operating system do you then purposely make your new one look and sound exactly the same ?
One thing I'm not after is judgement or popular opinion, what I want is for people to be honest and talk straight about their opinions on Windows 7 without fear of judgement or ridicule....and I think this is the place to facilitate that.
Me personally I don't think Vista is anywhere near as bad as popular opinion makes it out to be, I know I'm in the minority on this one but that to me is just a simple fact aswell as being my own opinion. I also do not think that Windows 7 is the savior of Windows even though that is what some people are hyping it as, quite frankly I don't even think Windows 7 is better than Windows Vista in all honesty, not when you consider the similarities at this point and the response vs functionality difference.