Comments on: Why Windows 7 marks end of an era

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:18:01 +0000

I’ve been in the PC world now for 20 years, and I’ll tell you this, cloud will never work for the corporations out there. There is no way that they will put data out on the cloud. This cloud is just another hype and will be replaced again in 2 to 3 years with something else. There will be people using it, for sure, but that will be totally only for your stuff that you dont care to loss. I use to have a myownemail.com email address, and 1 night they just disappeared! So put your data on the cloud if you dont care who see it, or dont care it it gets loss.
Also, I’ve been running XP on my desktop at home for many years now, and bought a new desktop with 1gig ram and 2mhz intel processor about 3 years ago. I’ve always waited for XP to start up and there way never a feeling that wow, this is fast. From last week I installed Windows 7 Enterprise with SQL Server 2008 & the visual studio 2008 and many of my older software on my D drive, and I tell you what, Xp is slow, Windows 7 beats the crap out of starting up and shutting down! The applications on 7 works almost just as good even if not beter and thats with the eye candy!
I would like to csutomize the start menu on 7 to look like XP as I really dont like it but I sure there will be a way around it.
My oldest software, KatMouse which is from 2002 runs perfect on 7, so why not change? I’m all for 7!

By: halicon

halicon — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:54:51 +0000

i do not think cloud computing is as close as it is reported… not for one second.

By: Donovan

Donovan — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:08:15 +0000

Ja, whatever, Michael. What about a brand new netbook? The thing only punts a 1.6 Atom processor and 2GB RAM. Eye candy doesn’t help me get my job done.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:23:08 +0000

I’m a bit amazed at how many people complain about the eye candy. I’m on a budget triple-core system and my processor typically hovers at 0% with Firefox open and task manager displaying the three graphs. Honestly, if your system is lagging from eye candy its not the fault of the eye candy, its the fault of the old clunker you’re running.

Computers are getting more powerful and software is getting even more demanding. Attempting to run current software (like Windows 7) on older hardware is perfectly fine. It appears to run on anything from the past three years. But if the system can’t handle Windows 7, don’t blame it on some random fault of the OS. Blame it on the real issue – the PC just wasn’t made for it.

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:51:43 +0000

Someone said BSD/UNIX? Heathens

By: ano

ano — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:01:08 +0000

if i remember, vista was supposed to be the last big os when it came out.
From my point of view, i will never use the cloud for personal use. It is very nice to have your data at your fingertips but i would never be able to trust other with my data. large corps who will hold this data will be the ceter of attraction for hackers for whom it will be a holy grail of info. I would rather have my os and data on my system.
cloud in my opinion is better for ppl who just use their comp for browsing hearing songs and probable watch videos.
if you are a gamer as in not mmorgs, do editing work etc then cloud is definitky not the way to go.
Another thing is that all isps are putting caps on your bandwidth. unless they remove it which is not going to happen, cloud is not going to take off.
personally i do not even use social sites anymore because of the amount of data you share with others.
im pretty sure you would not want others to access your private photos. You want others to see it send them by mail after encryption.
Just my 2 c i might be way off.

By: Donovan

Donovan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:37:35 +0000

clapclapclap good comment Jeff, especially regarding ‘worthless eye candy’. I’ve switched all of that nonsense off on my Windows 7 machine. All I want from an OS is to be able to turn on my computer and load the apps I need to get to work.

By: Donovan

Donovan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:36:18 +0000

Ugh, Duncan, please try to avoid using that horrible American neologism, ‘monetising’. Rather go for ‘commercialising’, the old fashioned way of saying ‘we’re going to sell this sucker’. Too bad if Yanks can’t understand what that means and have to invent a new word which they think makes it more obvious. Let’s try not to perpetuate it, whatcha say?

Talk about nitpicking, I know. Good story, though.

By: Henk Kleynhans

Henk Kleynhans — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:05:28 +0000

Jeff, on what basis do you say that “legacy NT code” is worthless? I think that NT is in almost all ways a much better OS than UNIX, especially when it comes to “legacy” leftovers that should have been discarded 30 years ago! (We’re STILL stuck with X Window System, for crying out loud!)

UNIX’s success has much more to do with the way it could run on a variety of hardware, with minimal re-coding. I.e., like a virus, it could easily mutate.

I’m looking forward to Google’s Chrome OS, if only to finally have a full Linux system without the rubbish that is X.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:12:58 +0000

What can MS do in Windows 8? How about getting rid of worthless legacy NT code and build on BSD/Unix foundations? Windows 7 is still prone to malware, it’s still just a single user desktop OS with network capabilities stuck on. The fact that it doesn’t run as Admin by default is great but it’s not enough – and get rid of worthless eye candy.

In fact security is the only reason to upgrade from XP to Windows 7? What does Windows 7 offer that XP SP2 does not? Eye-candy? Direct X11? UAC? An XP virtual machine which only runs on some CPUs and is only present in Win 7 Ultimate – the most expensive consumer version? When that runs it runs less well than native Win XP.

If your software works under XP and you’ve secured your system properly– what reason is there to upgrade? For eye candy? For the half-baked new Taskbar which tried to copy Apple’s Dock? Pretty OMGPonies!!!!!1 themes? The need to buy new software to work properly under 7?