Notice I did not make any assertions about Vista (Not familiar enough
with it to do so.) I just said it was an upgrade I decided not to bite on.
Same thing happened in the DOS market. DOS 5 was a blockbuster. I
remember buying my copy. DOS 6 was not so hot. I think it took 2
incremental upgrades to get it right. (DOS 6.2) Windows 98SE was a
great upgrade, but ME was so so. XP was good.
So it does not surprise me that Vista with all the hype that was
given it just did not make the grade as an upgrade that you NEEDED to have.
7 sounds like it is a much better upgrade. (They worked all the bugs
out, but then why charge folks for your screwup?)
I have a copy of 7 that I want to load on one of my machines now that
I think I have gotten everything where I want it on my new one.
Stewart
At 10:48 AM 3/26/2009, you wrote:
Vista suffers from poor marketing, and poor development from the MS side
(being released too soon) and from the developer side (not enough
drivers/software). Those problems were sufficiently gone by SP 1. It
always made me chuckle when I hear how poor Vista is and then learn it's
being put on five year old systems and being forced to run 10 year old
software.
From the ground up 7 is Vista, make no mistake. There are differences, but
they are subtle, more like the difference between Vista and Vista SP 1.
It's name is clearly an attempt to move away from the Vista debacle,
deserved or not, and get people to think a little more positive about it.
Most the arguments I hear against Vista haven't been true for well over a
year, they will probably never go away for some people, they just don't like
it no matter what happens.
BTW, I am running Win7 on a laptop here so I do know what it looks and runs
like.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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