Beyond the IFy backwards compatibility, WIN7 is just plain weird. I’m using the built-in background changer and it frequently rearranges the ordering of my icons, and also fits them in differently. The explorer continues to do wacky things like sometimes throwing the listing to the bottom of the screen, sometimes the top and sometimes just opening like it should. – No one has been able to explain THAT problem…
Then there’s the every-day ooops, had to reboot problem. Also there’s the COMPLETELY useless and rather annoying – your-program-has-stopped- working and we’re checking for a solution window that never seems to close and NEVER helps you.
Plus, there’s all this functionality that XP had that is just gone; software and hardware vendors are completely dragging their feet in upgrading their stuff to WIN7 – I bought programs that just don’t run, not even in the XP virtual machine – software that won’t even install – where is the legacy support?
OK, it does seem to mostly bootup faster than XP, but that just means you get to all the problems sooner! And the patches, my god, there were over 180 this last time! One hundred and eighty mistakes to be fixed! That’s encouraging… I’m developing a real love/hate relationship with WIN7; I have an XP machine that I use just to be able to say, ah yes, this is how it was…
