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33 Responses to “The best thing about Microsoft Windows 7”

1. marcio wrote, Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

   BETTER? ARE YOU CRAZY? AN OPERATING SYSTEM TO HANDLE VIRUS AND BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH? FOR 200 DOLLAR? WINDOWS USERS ARE GOING CRAZY!

2. Philip wrote, Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

   ^ huh?

3. Andre Oliveira wrote, Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

   Marcio, did you read the post properly?

   Quite a positive way to look at a Windows release, isn't it?

4. Peter wrote, Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

   If fiscally possible, I would hope the buyer chooses to acquire hardware with GNU/Linux pre-installed rather than hardware with Windows.

5. Damien wrote, Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

   A lot of retailers are, and have been for quite some time, offering free upgrades to Windows 7 for people who purchase Windows Vista machines. And I would imagine that most GNU Linux users would be putting together their own machines, and right now that's not too expensive either!

   P.S. Reaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllly looking forward to Crunchbang 9.10, Canonical have really flourished with Karmic!

6. ghabuntu wrote, Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

   You know, whether we like or not, whether Windows 7 is secure or not, one thing is for sure; it is set to be big and is likely to eclipse Linux even more. As to your point, I think I can agree with you that there will be more cheap hardware available for those of us who cannot afford the expensive ones. That's good news to me

7. jimcooncat wrote, Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

   Please send me your old Athlon machine. I had to retire Dad's 64MB Compaq with Win 98. I'll load Xubuntu on your hand-me-down, and bring one more user to the light. Thanks!

8. mathw wrote, Friday, October 23rd, 2009

   Windows 7's system requirements are about the same as Vista's (and it generally seems to run at least perceptibly faster on the same hardware, if not actually faster by a proper measurement) so this might not happen very much actually.

9. Philip wrote, Friday, October 23rd, 2009

   @mathw: I understand what you are saying, but if I were a Windows user and I was looking to purchase a new system, I would be looking for a Windows 7 system — unless I was specifically looking for a bargain. ;)

10. Zac wrote, Saturday, October 24th, 2009

    I have no use for Windows 7 also. Some retailers are advertising Windows 7 heavily because they haven't been selling enough PC's. They want to sell more PC's by making outrageous claims for Windows 7.

    What a wonderful business Microsoft has got. Retailers trying to move as many PC's as possible, doing the hard sell, and Microsoft sits back and rakes in the money. Microsoft doesn't even need to advertise themselves, the retailers will do it for them. They don't need my money and I'm not going to give it to them.

11. Sivar On IX wrote, Monday, October 26th, 2009

    Halo,

    Yes A Total Melt Down Happening At Microsoft. If You Look Under The Hood; Another Re-hash On Hand. It Is Truly Just A Re-Package Of Vista Ultimate. The Only Difference/In Coding And Off The Shelf Tests Exist ONLY In W-7 64Bit Edition. Major League Failure Already, I Cannot Believe They Have Released This System Morally & Ethically It Should Be Illegal!

    The real interest right now remains O-BSD, O-Solaris, Milax A Minimal O-Solaris Project; And Of Course CrunchBang….Fedora 12 A Failure/ Scientific Linux, Pretty Stable And Nice.

    I Can Never Figure Out Why Slow Bulky Ugly Buggy "Software" Remains The 'Mass Appeal.'

    I Am Ready To Kill The C-Phones, Ditch The Beepers, Burn The Cray's, Destroy; All Forms Of Bloat, And Just Settle Back Into Simplicity With An Amiga, Or TI-92 Puter, Not Calculator…Play Pong Or Something……alas I realize I can Have Both Worlds With CrunchBang….Sleep Now…Sleep….Openbox, Flowers, Simple, IX, X, Terminal… Many Machines On Ix

    Sivar

12. nasrullah wrote, Monday, October 26th, 2009

    Windows 7 is to heavy for the marathon……………………..GNU/LINUX is ahead in the race…………..freedom/liberation………….

13. mzsade wrote, Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

    I still don't get all the hype, i mean all the "new features" advertised are already available in most major linux distros.

14. abdu wrote, Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

    i actually am lookin forward to wins 7 ..why? first vista was kinda annoyin screwed up my streaming vids from the net..plus it MUST have better support for the hardware on my laptop qosmio f 50 why? on ubuntu 9.04, xubuntu 9.04, fedora kde.. wireless doesnt work, doesn;t utilize completely my sounds sustem just to name a few. the only hardware which DOES work is the webcam~!

15. JahBless wrote, Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

    Sivar, you are absolutely correct in saying it should be illegal what M$ put out there as "finished products" and the prices they charge for them! I was 5 years before i moved to xp from 98 and now I have moved from xp to linux (mint 7) and have not looked back one bit. Vista was/is a complete joke, only M$ were the only ones laughing at how much they 0wn the industry! It seems to me that vista was preparing the hype for win7 by vista being so slow and annoying and etc. etc. etc. so of course win7 would seem like a dream compared to it… but like it has been said already, vwin7 isn't even a new product! last thing… does anyone else besides me have friends and family who have pc's with windows and are constantly getting phone calls and invitations to fix their machines???? My permanent solution now is "Move To Linux!" FOSS 4ever! peace!

16. JahBless wrote, Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

    ps. downloading #! as i type, 56%… looking forward to trying it out, have heard good things about it!

    (pps! what a dream transmission is compared to utorrent, now i can actually browse the net and use my laptop while dl torrents! …linux… the way it should be ;) )

17. Shinzies wrote, Sunday, November 1st, 2009

    Windows 7 Ultimate, oh yea…!!! The shiznet like this should of been released 2 years ago…

    Mint what? Please…

    Desktop Linux based OS will never be like Windows, Period..

    For those talking about underhood:

    The day when Gnu/Linux Desktop smokes Windows it will be the day i will take a Gun and shoot myself in the head.. Why, cuz then my root will be anyones root… Thank you very much.. As for security of these so called easy to use linux distros oh wait sudo my ass, they are more unsecure than they claim.. Stop saying Linux is secure, cuz the last i checked contents of /etc was readable by default for regular user on almost all linux distributions…

    Linux and any other OS is secure as much as you secure it, claiming it is secure by default, give me the damn machine i will show you what is secure by default.. The moment that ethernet wire is plugged into the damn ethernet card is the day your security by default is lost..

    the famous iptables is as good as the kernel stability and as good linux user is i hate how some people say i am linux user oh yea, and i am secured.. usually n00b talking out of his ass.. so next time when u install your security by default try reading /etc/ssh/sshd_config by regular user, then you get your security by default 1 on 1 served to you in clear plain text…

    Gnu in the hands of a pro is secure, and the pro is still wondering should he put more security and apply new security policies on its core and distribution level of the network. so yea, i love linux… but i love windows just as much… stop saying microsoft sucks, cuz you know you suck and that is a good thing to know about you..

18. Philip wrote, Sunday, November 1st, 2009

    ^ oookay.

19. Shinzies wrote, Sunday, November 1st, 2009

    ^Indeed, oookey..

    Respect to the editor for hardware related post, i hope it really does get cheaper …

20. Igor Perkovic wrote, Monday, November 2nd, 2009

    Tried Windows 7 and seems quite good.

    Also, it's very look like some Linux distro. It's hard to not noticed partition on installer, network tools, taskbar like tint2 (but with more functionality), Windows Explorer, .. likes same on Linux with tendencies to be better and more powerfull.

    Vista eats 1,5 GB of RAM, Windows 7 eats 500-600 MB of RAM.

    I think that windows users will embrace new lower consuption system, so Philip, I'm not too sure that hardware will be on bargain. It just might be the opposite.. With smaller mem. footprint, we may expect lower hardware with same or higher prices..

    And who knows why it's good.

    Regards!

21. Philip wrote, Monday, November 2nd, 2009

    I'm not too sure that hardware will be on bargain. It just might be the opposite.. With smaller mem. footprint, we may expect lower hardware with same or higher prices.

    Yes, but in the short-term, hardware retailers will still want to offload their "old" stock of Vista machines. Now, as a case in point, I purchased a Packard Bell EasyNote Butterfly S last week from a well-known high street retailer and it was significantly reduced because it had Vista installed.

22. crouchingpenguin wrote, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

    …. and the best thing about that is there will be an abundance of machines for me to put #!CrunchBang Linux on. :D

23. Dan wrote, Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

    Bring on the Karmic Koala @ crouchingpenguin, I picked up three broken PC's over the weekend, one had a blow power supply, one had a blown graphics card, and the third one had no HD.

    I took all three to bits and made a working one with 0.98GiB 1.8Ghz AMD and am treating myself to a 400Gb serial ATA II disk for it on the weekend. Looking forwards to shoving crunchbang 9.10 onto it, my Karma is all good I recycle!

    Windows 7 pfft, load of old hype I havent touched windows since XP SP1.

24. Garreth wrote, Thursday, November 19th, 2009

    IMO Windows 7 won't dent the popularity of Linux on the desktop. Linux is still primarily enthusiast and spread by word of mouth.

    I think people (non enthusiasts) will mostly stick with vista that they had preinstalled rather than Buy Win7.

    But the best feature of Win 7 IMO: Window snapping/tiling. Why can't Ubuntu/compiz do this automatically and at least as good as Win7? Tinycore linux is the only distro that i have seen come anywhere near (e.g. open a terminal and it appears in a blank space rather than the last place it was).

    Correct me if i'm wrong.

25. illumin8 wrote, Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

    Im looking forward to the prices the second week of January on the left over Vista Machines.

    I was interested in the BlackFriday stats from the States. 600 million spent online. Now there is a big marketing push to culturalize the catchphrase Cyber Monday. Unfortunately OpenMoko doesnt seem to be interested in marketing pushes:)

26. xlin3r wrote, Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

    Windows 7 works better than any other Windows versions other than 3.11 (if anyone remembers, and experienced the good times), but still destroys the entire course of working anyway. But nothing beats Linux and its advance through a solidarity-based way of thinking behind. Would also like to crunch bang Linux distribution that works well in my job. You dare to take ubuntu to the right window manager … ;) Nothing wrong with gnome etc. ..

27. Nova wrote, Friday, December 18th, 2009

    Hi, I’m just an average user. But I have been exploring linux and Ubuntu for a few years. Finally tried it and it appears to be the “bomb” to me. Microsoft can’t possibly keep the lid on this movement for too much longer It’s just a matter of time.

28. Eh wrote, Thursday, December 24th, 2009

    Non sequiter:

    I dont think you should do a #! 9.10 because of some of the "interesting" installation problems. Wait till 10.04 its a LTS release so it has to be good.

29. airtonix wrote, Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

    1. Consumerism Will Not Die :

    Microsoft will never die, its users will continue to support it simply because they are the kind who feel empowered when they spend large sums of money to be socially separated from others.

    Oh sure your product-x may be the same as mine, but yours did not cost 300 dollars. That makes me more important because I spend more money, since obviously I am much wealthier than you.

    1. MS Win Window Manager is ancient.

    But the best feature of Win 7 IMO: Window snapping/tiling. Why can't Ubuntu/compiz do this automatically and at least as good as Win7?

    Not sure what you mean, windows actually can't do alot of the things that all x11 window managers are capable of.

    One of the things I've had to scream murder to find is : taekwindow… without it I would rage hard trying to deal with resizing and moving window frames around on a win32 system

30. Louis Wu wrote, Saturday, February 6th, 2010

    I've been using linux for a number of years now. I still have a windows partition, but it has been a long time since I've used it. Just so much wasted space on the hard drive. I was initially just curious, but the more I worked with it, the better I liked it. It's pliable, and allows me to do what I need to do quickly with no fuss. I initially had some problems with 9.10, but I was actually able to fix what problems there were relatively quickly. Rather than the unending "arms race" games that MS was fond of playing. Now, if I'm forced to use windows, I find it tedious. I find myself constantly running into bits of proprietary code here and there. In fact, I don't really work with windows, but around it.

31. Eh wrote, Thursday, February 11th, 2010

    @Nova: They've been keeping the lid on it since ~1995(ish), and at worst they just pay people not to use Linux. They have enough cash…

32. Computer Guy wrote, Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

    I just bought a new laptop with Windows 7 and love it. It's a really good operating system, although I still prefer Vista.

33. Timmer wrote, Friday, April 16th, 2010

    Ive been using Karmic Koala for about a month I have windows 7 xp and ubuntu on this machine really luv ubuntu was getting to be a real battle trying to fight off all the nasties that windows seems to attract!The war is over theres peace for me in Linux land love it!Its not that hard to learn as some people believe Im really liking it can do everything I need to do and it doesnt get sick all the time like windows!