Is Windows7 just a repackaged Vista

In January my wife got herself a Pavillon with preinstalled win 7 home premium, She also acquired Norton internet security and MS office 2007.

She is an ordinary user, an she went directly from Win XP and Office 2003 and ie7,
She is more interestd in results and documents than the OS itself.

She has to ask me sometimes because the UAC pops up or there is some warning.

I say it is ok to know 10% of a systems capabilities, and use them well.

She is very productive with it.

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I must have missed it, having not been around much lately. What happened for you to need another new notebook so soon?

I agree with the market approach of Vista beign compared to ME, but in actuality Vista was what ME could only hope to be. The two OS's shouldn't be compared without clarity, as Vista is a gazillion times better than the pure garbage, stripped down, headache that ME was.

From a marketing perspective, I'd have to agree for the most part though.

I am not a Wondows advocate, in fact the only OS they released that I ever actually liked was XP.

WHat I don't like is when people knowkc Windows JUST because it is WIndows and they have little hands-on knowledge but parrot the same slop that gets plastered all over the Net by other people who are simply anti-Windows.

XP was just too insecure for me and I really didn't like yteh interface, which was nothing new as far as usability but just a new look to buttons etc. I'm sure you've heard me refer to it as the Fisher Price interface more than once.

With Vista I too had read the slagging before actually using it myself. When it came time for a new notebook I cringed at the thought of Vista, I even had a copy of Win2KPro ready for a clean install after I played with Vista for a bit.

But I was shocked as s*** to find out that NONE of th issues I'd read so much about were actually there. It wasn't high end, it was just a basic, over the counter, retail notebook from BestBuy. But it screamed and the new usability features were great too. Took me a little bit to find and learn the new do-dads(I never read page 2 of the manual when it comes to computing)and then had get used to using them. The end result, I couldn't say a negative word about Vista, based on how it worked in my entry level notebook anyway.

SO teh time came again, a little faster tahn expected, new notebook time. This time it was Win7, which I had heard great things about but Vista was running great for me too.

I now absolutely LOVE Win 7, I couldn't say enough about it, absolutely incredible! I see the improvements to Vista so now it is teh best of both worlds, XP speed with Vista security and more.

I would gladly put my name to it that Windows 7 is by far the best desktop OS in Microsoft History.

That's my straight take on it asnyway, perhaps others habe other issues but in almost every case I've read about Vista, it was consumer purchase errors that lead to the problems and complaints, I'm sure the same will go for WIn7 too.

I wouldn't be concerned unless running really old hardware where drivers are not available (haven't found any myself yet, in fact I haven't manually downloaded drivers for anything, including my ODBII ScanTool.

It seems so many peple are gung-ho on getting into 7 that the manufacturers of even obscure hardware are updatign to Win7 64 bit compatibility now.

The reason we moved from Win98 to WinXP at my former job was because of system stability, period. XP doesn't crash nearly as often as 98 did, and the saved time from users not losing their work quickly paid for the upgrade.

There was nothing else about XP that improved the way we did business, but that was worth the price of admission.

The average end user doesn't use the majority of the features available. All they care about is they click on a pretty picture on the desktop, and the proper application opens so they can do their jobs.

If 2010 is a better year than 2009 was, I am hoping to have a Win7 system by summer.

Its Windows ME all over again. Business didn't deploy it. It will never be the cash cow that XP or 2000 was. Companies eventually adopted XP and 2000. Not so with Vista. Its become more of a small business/home user OS.

Vista does run acceptably if it has the proper hardware and software, but it costs money to have that. It doesn't cost any money to run XP. It still works and its still supported by Microsoft. What is the compelling reason to change?

If Microsoft thought that Vista was so good, they wouldn't have allowed OEM's to include a downgrade CD to XP for business users. Thats a big red flag to me, especially because Windows 7 was on the horizon.

AV