Running Vista? It seems you shouldn’t be. The windows 7 beta seems to be beating out Vista in all performance tests. Windows 7 also uses far less memory and performance is much better. For those of you who hate Vista, maybe you should give Windows 7 beta a try.
However, it has been reported that Windows 7 looks and feels strikingly like Mac OSX. Very similar to Vista, but not completely. Still, if you’re running Vista right now, you may want to give Windows 7 a go, because I’m sure you’re annoyed with it’s performance and memory usage. If not, well you should be 
For me, I’m still sticking with XP and Ubuntu primarily, but I may give Windows 7 a go at some point in the near future. If I do, expect a full write up on my experience. I absolutely hated windows Vista, I thought it was a piece of garbage that should have never been released. I actually may feel exactly the same way about Windows 7 because I’m more of a minimalist when it comes to GUI garbage.
I had Compiz running on Ubuntu and it gave me a bunch of problems and performance errors. Eventually I asked myself is this worth it? I came to the conclusion it wasn’t, and turned it off. If I could turn Windows 7 into XP with the default theme and windows 98 look I would be happy, because to be honest the only thing I like about Vista/7 is the fact it has DX10.
Why do these companies keep focusing on GUI so much. I could care less about GUI I care more about functionality. Does it run better than XP, is it more secure, reliable? The answer to those questions for Vista is no. Trojans for XP still worked on Vista? Are you kidding me? I’m going to guess the same is true for Windows 7. No real improvements, just looks pretty and is less of a resource pig.
Maybe more people will switch this time around. I might, who knows. Maybe I’ll wait until all new games no longer work on Windows XP Again, those of you running Vista, it might be a good idea to check out Windows 7 if you want to free up some resources.
Vista reminded me of Windows ME, another badly written halfway-house operating system. I suspect that Microsoft release these part-baked systems occasionally so that those foolish or unfortunate members of the public that end up with the OS test the new technology – and pay MS for the pleasure of doing so.
You have a quality blog. Keep up the good work.
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Vista – YUCK! Actually, what I did was to setup and run Windows Server 2008 as a workstation. Step by step instructions are available at win2008workstation.com. I was forced into making a change as I was running XP and then my machine died, I went to re-install XP on a new hardrive and the media was defective and I could not load it – MS would not give me a new XP media, even though I had a license / certificate of authenticity. I just picked up a magazine at the newstand last night with Ubuntu 8.10 – I think I will give it a try. Very nice site. Thanks
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Ubuntu 8.10 is a very nice OS. Once you get used to I think you’ll enjoy it
I’ve downloaded the 7 beta awhile back, and still haven’t gotten around to burning it. I did the same for Server 08, thinking I’d turn that into a workstation like Mike, but I’m still with XP, being the bum that I am. I find dual booting to more of a bother than a convenience, as well, otherwise I’d tack on some form of *nix to my setup.
Currently I am running Vista & Ubuntu. I am waiting for the non-beta version of the Windows 7 to release. I am expecting lot of performance relates improvements in the new version of windows. Lets see what they have in store.
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omg i so do not like Vista either
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Is Windows 7 beta still available? I think it needs an MS key to install and I did not find where to get one.
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Microsoft says the beta is no longer available, however there are other methods you could use…
You can still get a key for Windows 7 from Microsoft, but not the download of the OS.
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I’m sure there’s plenty of places where you could download it other than Microsoft.. So I guess the answer is yes, it’s still available.
I’ve been enjoying windows 7 on my new notebook! when I am finished testing our system’s compatibility to 7 and find it OK will be the official time for us to upgrade from xp to 7.
guess this will our next favorite OS.
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