Thats not the complaints I hear. The complaints I hear are that they upgraded every machine in the office to top of the line and got a buggy half assed OS. Or built a custom top of the line gaming rig and Vista slowed it down to a crawl.
Can you honestly get on a Windows 7 machine and then go back to a Vista crippled PC and tell me their is no difference? If there are differences what are they? Your control panel actually opens right up on the 7 machine while Vista takes 10 seconds to do so? Oh, how about the 15 minutes it takes Vista to copy a small file from one local drive to another? You mean that new Windows 7 box will actually see the home network?
I could go on for 10-15 pages and I have done so in this very forum. If you had no issues what so ever with Vista you either never been on a vista machine or your idea of an issue is far different from mine.
I've never experienced those issues to begin with. If I have I would of complained about Vista just like the lot of everyone else. I guess I was just very lucky...along with the other 40 or 50 family members that I have setup a Windows Vista computer (So I guess I have in fact been on Vista a
couple times...
By all means, yes I know that windows Vista is much slower than 7 but it's not really all that slow in general. If the speed limit is 65 and I'm going 50 then I am not going slow- but I am certainly not going my top legal speed either. I'm still going to get to where I am going, just not as fast.
And yes, I've upgraded my system from Vista to 7. It's much better looking and faster. But I seriously never had any hardware issues with Windows Vista- ever. My idea of an issue is if something isn't working as expected. If something takes me a second or two longer I won't really care too much.
Oh and those high end gaming rigs...did they happen to have slow hard drives? overclocked memory? maybe buggy video drivers? none of that is Vista's fault. Put a 10K or even a 7200RPM hard drive (let alone SSD), Un-overclocked memory and mature drivers in a Vista computer and watch it fly.
And about the control panel...why does mine open up almost instantaneously (within 2 seconds) in Vista? And why can I copy a large collection of PHP files (all in the 1kb to 10kb range with a total of about 5,000 files) from my laptops SUPER slow 5200RPM hard drive to an external hard drive in under 5 minutes? Is my dinosaur of a laptop some sort of special case- or is it that you yourself have never used Vista.
And the office upgrade- how long ago was that? Was SP1 out? Vista shipped as a buggy half-fast OS, I will grant you that. SP1 fixed 90% of those problems....SP2 covered the rest. Everything else is Hardware and Software manufacturers fault- not Microsoft's. Also, on my laptop with a $5 off-brand network adapter I am actually picking up networks from across the block- my wireless network connection is getting the full 15MBit/second down and 2.5MBit/Sec up and all I had to do was install the drivers for it.
HOWEVER, I will grant you that Windows 7 is superior to Vista. But only on the grounds because it is a newer model. But I do also agree it is what Windows Vista should have been, back when it was called
Longhorn.
