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Peoples of the Interwooble! I have seen the enemy, and yea, I say unto you, it is crap.
Translation: I helped my mother buy and set up her new laptop, which has Windows 7 on it.
( And yea, I say unto you now, 'tis little better than Vista. )
This is not a good OS. It's been simplified so much that it has cycled straight back round into obfuscation: the GUI is radically different from previous versions of Windows, which is confusing for long-time users, the messages it gives are badly-worded and confusing; and it tries so hard to protect the user that even basic problems such as 'you didn't check any boxes, dummy' are blown up into massive soul-crushing missions.
Fast? Yes. Therefore better than Vista? Yes. But even Vista done right has problems, big ones that are fundamental to the design of Vista. It should not take me ten minutes to explain to my mother which programs are open and which aren't, any more than it should take half an hour to load the OS because Aero's eating all the RAM.
Translation: I helped my mother buy and set up her new laptop, which has Windows 7 on it.
( And yea, I say unto you now, 'tis little better than Vista. )
This is not a good OS. It's been simplified so much that it has cycled straight back round into obfuscation: the GUI is radically different from previous versions of Windows, which is confusing for long-time users, the messages it gives are badly-worded and confusing; and it tries so hard to protect the user that even basic problems such as 'you didn't check any boxes, dummy' are blown up into massive soul-crushing missions.
Fast? Yes. Therefore better than Vista? Yes. But even Vista done right has problems, big ones that are fundamental to the design of Vista. It should not take me ten minutes to explain to my mother which programs are open and which aren't, any more than it should take half an hour to load the OS because Aero's eating all the RAM.