http://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/ Switched Comments for Windows 7 Performing Just Fine, Despite Haters http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/Nov 4th 2009 5:34PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/Nov 4th 2009 6:20PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/
I'm running a Win7 machine that got installed over XP the weekend after launch. I had made the decision to skip Vista because the only thing it provided was DirectX 10, and that wasn't enough of a reason for me to switch when Vista was released. My hardware at the time wasn't spectacular and I'd been running XP since I switched off ME on XP's launch day.

Anyways, I bought new hardware but decided that I was just going to stick with XP cuz of rumors that Win7 was on its way. I wanted to get onto 64-Bit and I knew that drivers were out that would work for everything i had.

Did the upgrade, couple hours to install. Couple more hours to get all my data off my backups and onto the computer. I have all the same software i was running on my XP rig under Win7 with no issues so far. Some of these programs are well over 6-8 years old. No one thing i have tried to install on Win7 has not worked. It's also been very stable and comes out of sleep mode faster.

I seriously haven't run into a problem since the upgrade.

]]>Nov 4th 2009 6:26PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/I had way above the recommended specs, that's for sure, and Vista would still BSOD and crash to desktop on certain Directx apps ALL THE TIME!

However, it seems that Windows 7 has changed all that. I installed and booted up Windows 7 x64 RC about 6 months ago and haven't looked back. Trust me, this is worth upgrading to. I've upgraded all of my systems to Windows 7, except one, and that's because it barely fulfills XP SP3's requirements as is.]]>Nov 4th 2009 9:55PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/Nov 16th 2009 1:26AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/I've never had to reinstall my Mac OS. I reinstall my PC software about every 6 months. In nearly all cases, it is the OS incompatibility or inefficiencies and just plain sloppy patches.

I like both machines. There are applications unique to both machines.

My complaint goes to both Apple and Microsoft. They make the customer the beta
tester and then require them to pay for a faulty system. Most revisions to the OS are not worth the price of new OS software. Upgrades are just not worth the cost.

If reliablity were the issue - give me a Mac. But if I'm going to bring my work home
it would likely be a PC. This is why I have both. Companies are heavily committed
to PCs.

It is too bad that Linux has so little too offer in application software. Mac's version
of Linux seems quite limited, but to be fair I haven't done anything except play
with it.

I love SGI machines, but alas, like a Rolls, it is beyond my means. But this is really
about MACs and PCs]]>Nov 12th 2009 9:20AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/Nov 29th 2009 4:48PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/haters-already-calling-windows-7-a-failure/Jan 28th 2010 11:51AM