^ What are your PC specs? Vista is not glitchy, if configured correctly with a suitable system. I use it on two systems for 10 hours a day and I dont have any problems. Also, yes UAC is annoying but can be tweaked and will be able to be tweaked even more in W7.

 

i downloaded it burned it but not installed it. to lazy

 

I just installed it on a PC here at work and so far like it better than Vista, mostly for performance reasons. We just made a decision not to switch to Vista at my company so once this comes out we will probably go to it.

 

I made the decision not to roll out Vista to my end users because they would not be able to handle the change. Keep in mind I teach people how to do all kinds of minuscule stuff throughout the day. I have 3-4 users that have it on their laptops and am actually shocked at how well they have adapted. I will have to move them over one day though.

 

I gave up on Windows long ago. You know it's bad when they had to disguise Vista as "Mojave" just to get people to think it was new and exciting. I'm currently waiting on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). They're focusing on platform stability versus making everything look glossy. XP was good, but even then it was vulnerable.

...not to mention I don't have to clog resources running anti virus, spyware, adware, etc etc.

 

so would those of you that are trying it, would you agree that it requires less resources than vista does? I don't think that the whole "aero" theme works properly for me because of it being through vmware so it doesn't get full access to my video card.

haha, that is a great cartoon


I'm running 64-bit, and you're definitely right, there's a lot of things you can't do with it. One of the biggest problems I had was that no drivers existed for my scanner. If a pre-made system were to be bought though in 64-bit, if the user didn't plan on adding on many peripherals, they'd be set. Although I still have problems with 64 v. 32 bit in Matlab and some other insignificant things like the Vista sidebar.



What are the specs on that dell you installed windows 7 on? I'd love to see exactly how stripped down a computer I could put it on. Btw, as far as the having everything on the taskbar, what do you mean? I know I can switch between apps with alt-tab, but I guess I'm just used to having all open applications strewn across the taskbar. That's not to say that this new method isn't a better system, I'm just weird haha.

 

I'm all for using a Mac, I just don't have the money to justify one right now. I've considered messing around and trying to install one of the Mac OS on my PC, but I haven't done enough research on it, plus I suppose it voids the contract with Apple rendering it illegal

 

Macs are overpriced PCs with shiny cases and proprietary hardware. Vista got a bad rep b/c people are retarded and would rather listen to word of mouth than experience it for themselves. Give those same people OS X and they will do the same thing, nothing; they were still using XP were they not? BTW, Apple just started recommending AV be used on OS X. There is more to Windows than making it glossy, but people want pretty, which is why they did it. If the market share for Macs was larger, there would be more vulnerabilities for them. Show me an enterprise office that runs on an apple server and I may accredit them 1% of the market.