It being too difficult to find the setting you need to change in the mess of a control panel still kind of sucks. But otherwise, it doesn't suck. Oh, except it's still over-priced for what you get.
The best example I can find of really stupid feature hiding is that there's room-acoustics correction burred in a setting hidden deeply nested in the control panel. This is something that on hardware AV equipment adds £100 to the price tag, but is in Windows 7 for 'free' but totally hidden and disabled by default.
Something about the look of the new box art/logo/product splash they have was poking at my brain. I've been getting it on my monitor when i log into windows live to play a co-op game. I think i figured out last night what was making something in my brain tickle.
the brushed metal/lighting/feel/friendly curves/etc of it is like something you'd see out of the folks at apple, and the whole thing wanders (in my brain at least) into some kind of trademarky uncanny valley.
I hope it continues to be awesome. I'll think about picking it up after others have had a decent burn-in period.
Um... As a bit of a computer history geek, the "Mac stole their GUI from Xerox" idea is BS.
The Xerox Star was a word-processor and graphic design system, it was *not* a general computer interface. It was designed specifically for creating documents, and organising the types of items you would have in those documents. The only way to purchase a Xerox Star initially was as part of a full "personal office system" intended to replace an entire traditional office and installed by Xerox, then later with purchase of a Xerox Laser Printer. The Xerox Star was always seen and marketed as the graphical control system for a printer, that could do a few other office related tasks as well.
Saying Apple, Microsoft, Sun, BEos, Amiga and Atari 'stole' the Xerox Star GUI for their general purpose computer systems GUIs would make as much sense as saying Xerox 'stole' the idea of object based point and click GUIs from Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad.
ps. OS X is *not* a mod of freebsd. It uses some of freebsd's user land, but the kernel and core OS of XNU is completely different, as is the user shell and GUI, having originated from NeXTSTEP.
pps. Saying Apple copied NeXTSTEP would be a bit silly, since NeXT was Steve Jobs's company during his hiatus from Apple.
I pre-ordered it back when they were selling it at half price. Supposedly it's in the mail, so I'll know sometime in the next week or so if I am going to love it or hate it (though I suppose ambivalence isn't completely off the table).
As long as it doesn't let the blue smoke out of my computer I'll be happy.
If you could handle XP, you'll be able to handle Windows 7. With the major caveats that the Control Panel is now even more confusing and hard to navigate. It has an improved security model, but the implementation is still going to be suspect enough that you will want to install a virus scanner first thing, and run it behind a firewall. I still would not recommend using Windows as a public accessible server or for any situation requiring more than 90% uptime. It's fine for a media and games desktop tho.
We also have a 8 year old machine runing XP V3. (And I am perfectly happy, thank you). I suspected upgrading would be nearly impossible, now I sure. Thanks. :-) You may have just saved an argument/debate in our house, a headache and some money with that one line.
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Win7 sucks less than Vista, about the same - maybe a little better than XP. Not quite Apple, but with better an engine more like a Ford than an Buick.
"YMMV."
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But I concur, I am not that impressed with the control panel, and set mine to a more classical style.
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Neither has it gone "vista" on my ass.
So I'm happy.
Thus this ad :
is total BS
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FWIW, that ad could be totally flipped (i.e., Mac guy promising to fix previous MacOS problems) and be just as true if not more so.
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So I think the ad is hypocritical
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the brushed metal/lighting/feel/friendly curves/etc of it is like something you'd see out of the folks at apple, and the whole thing wanders (in my brain at least) into some kind of trademarky uncanny valley.
I hope it continues to be awesome. I'll think about picking it up after others have had a decent burn-in period.
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I mean , their OS is TOTALLY not a mod of freebsd , they totally not steal the GUI idea from Xerox or anything >_>
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The Xerox Star was a word-processor and graphic design system, it was *not* a general computer interface. It was designed specifically for creating documents, and organising the types of items you would have in those documents. The only way to purchase a Xerox Star initially was as part of a full "personal office system" intended to replace an entire traditional office and installed by Xerox, then later with purchase of a Xerox Laser Printer. The Xerox Star was always seen and marketed as the graphical control system for a printer, that could do a few other office related tasks as well.
Saying Apple, Microsoft, Sun, BEos, Amiga and Atari 'stole' the Xerox Star GUI for their general purpose computer systems GUIs would make as much sense as saying Xerox 'stole' the idea of object based point and click GUIs from Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad.
ps. OS X is *not* a mod of freebsd. It uses some of freebsd's user land, but the kernel and core OS of XNU is completely different, as is the user shell and GUI, having originated from NeXTSTEP.
pps. Saying Apple copied NeXTSTEP would be a bit silly, since NeXT was Steve Jobs's company during his hiatus from Apple.
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As long as it doesn't let the blue smoke out of my computer I'll be happy.
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Some software just sucks less.
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No Suck?
That's good! Wonder if I could upgrade my 8 year old HP running on XP to Windows 7 without problems?
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Besides, if you've got XP, why would you want to upgrade?
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