Ron Schenone

Windows 7 – Let The Games Begin!

Posted by on Jan 2, 2009 | 9 Comments

As the first beta of Windows 7 becomes available, the ‘I like it’ or ‘I hate it’ games have begun. Over at ZD-Net they have several differences of opinion on what Windows 7 will be and depending on your opinion, what it won’t be. What makes all of this interesting is that it comes basically down to change.

You see when Vista came out, Microsoft moved most everything around, added new ways of doing things and basically upset the apple cart. For those who were using Windows XP for 5 years, they were resistant to the changes. Plus Vista got a bad rap when people tried to upgrade or who bought puny systems that wouldn’t handle the load that Vista demanded. Performance suffered and so did Vista’s image.

At ZD-Net one writer states that:

I find it difficult to believe that Windows 7 was created to be easier to use than Vista — if anything, they’ve introduced a number of UI changes that make the system much harder to navigate, particularly if you’ve never used Vista and are going direct to Windows 7 from Windows XP, which is the path that many users will experience.

This is the bottom line. You will either hate Windows 7 since it is Vista with some minor changes, or love it. Unless you are like me. Computers are tools. No more, no less. The Vista laptop I bought is fast because it has a dual-core and 3G’s of RAM. I haven’t tweaked a thing and it ran fast and continues to do so, right out of the box. What can I say. I guess I am blessed. :-)

After using Vista for 3 months I feel comfortable and no longer yearn for Windows XP. I tossed out the idea of stripping the hard disk of Vista and going back to XP.

Bottom line. Windows 7 is going to be Vista with window dressing.

Comments welcome.

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  • http://bob3160.googlepages.com/home Bob G.

    I couldn’t agree more.
    People also complained when Windows 95 came out.
    There was a big learning curve in Windows XP and once you gave Windows Vista a real chance, you had to admit that it was better and more secure than XP.
    In this world you have to learn to adapt or you’ll get run over by progress.
    Stagnation was archived eons ago.

  • warinpiece

    “The More You Change Things, The More They Stay The Same.”
    Since the dawn of time, people have hated changes until they found that there wasn’t an alternative.
    These days, there are alternatives, XP(if you can get your hands on it), Vista, OSX, Linux(and it’s many many distro’s), and still people are unhappy.
    Until someone can devise a truly people orientated Operating System, people are still going to complain about this, and complain about that.
    What MS don’t realise, is that, I still use XP and that I still like it. I can get anything(software, and hardware, etc) to run on it.
    My computer isn’t perfect, but once you get past the bugs, at the end of the day, it does what I need it to do.

  • leftystrat

    If you’re content to take what you’re given, things will always be easier. Imagine how fast that machine of yours would be with an efficient OS.

    The fact is that so many people weren’t willing to take what they were given that Vista flopped. Microsoft, keen to prove that they learned nothing, are putting in a few more things to confuse people.

    We’re Number One: we don’t HAVE TO care.

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Thank to you all for the comments and for sharing your thoughts with us.

    Jeff – efficient OS? You must be talking about Android. :-)

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  • Big Cheese

    I am running the Windows 7 beta and so far I am impressed. It is running on a 1.5 ghz single core athlon with 1 gb RAM, and it feels as fast as my 2.8ghz dual core with 4gb of ram. They have supposedly made Windows 7 faster than XP and Vista. I think that WIndows 7 will be what Vista was supposed to have been from the get go.

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Thanks for the comments. I finally got a copy and will take it for a spin in the morning.

    Thanks for stopping by and sharing your opinions.

  • Meat Puppet

    So far after a few days of testing, I am having mixed results. I love the speed of this OS over Vista and some of the additions are nice as well. Only issues I am having so far are not being able to play “punkbuster” games and EvenBalance isn’t going to make beta drivers for PB at the moment. Another thing thats rankled my hide is having to manually install a hotfix on my XP SP3 machines in order for my Win7 machine to see them on my network. One last thing I noticed that should at least stay the way it is in Vista is in the Explorer. I liked having the logged in users folders as a seperate entry under Desktop.

  • rjs

    Well after a few days playing with windows 7 X64 version i must admit this os has some really nice futures and runs smooth and stable as a rock even with the nvidia card i have ( vista reboots continues with nvidia driver errors)

    And yes i a few games surprised me by running on windows 7 like it was running under XP and sometimes even got the feeling it was more stable now. Now i never got these games running under vista so big surprise here.

    But games like Command and Conquer CC3/RA3 and so on well forget them for now they simply won’t install, many other programs don’t install as well like winamp.

    And yes i tried all compatibilty modes but simply forget them only a few programs will work ofcourse its up to you to try which works or not.

    But still IF the final product is going to work with those programs and games i want, i really consider to trade in my never used vista license to this new windows 7