My problem with Vista is that it brought plenty of issues but none of new nice and interesting (to me) things.

In the beginning a lot of pro-Vista people online started with mumble and bogus overhyped features like ReadyBoost when asked directly how exactly Vista is better.

Anyway good or not it is a fact that it was safe to skip and many did just that.

PS Windows ME ? Seriously? It crashed more often than cat asked for food. :)

Well, it’s 15 months after this article, and Windows 7
is now on sale.

It ain’t revolutionary. It’s evolutionary. And those
describing it as “Vista II” aren’t far wrong !

Two of my three PC’s are Vista machines. ( The other one
-the netbook- is XP. ) I’m perfectly happy with Vista,
and believe it’s been heavily slandered by columnists
with an ax to grind with Microsoft. [ But, hey, I liked
Windows ME much better than Windows 98 SE ! ]

In particular, Windows Explorer was greatly improved in
Vista. I do a ~lot~ of file management, and the meliorated
Windows Explorer in Vista is much appreciated.

Vista had quite a few driver problems in it’s first year.
Plus, you can’t expect Vista to run on an ancient PC.
The same, though, is largely true with ~any~ new operating
system. The rabid hate for Vista in the tech media was all
out of proportion.

Only objection I might have to Win 7 being that Microsoft
got rid of Quick Launch. You can pin shortcuts to the taskbar,
but there’s no discrete Quick Launch anymore. PC Magazine has
a hack to get Quick Launch back into Win 7…

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2339493,00.asp

…yet I don’t know whether, or how well, it works.

Also the Win 7 taskbar list of running applications is now
entirely graphical (as in the Mac). Not certain whether I’ll
like that better than Vista’s and XP’s combination of a label
with small icon.

Win 7 Aero “Peek” sounds over-hyped. Have to wait and see if
it’s that big of a deal.

The most exciting thing in my opinion about Win 7 is that it’s
optimized for multi-core processors. Dual and quad CPU’s won’t
have full benefit until individual applications are optimized
for multi-core. The operating system at least being optimized,
though, represents a good start.

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The DataRat

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