Windows 7 sins

[B00tDisk]

I am not saying that Apple wouldn´t do the same things, but they weren´t in the position until recently. So they had to play more open and fair, because they needed support from OSS.

BULL SHIT.

Apple have been chasing end users around with sharp sticks since the fucking company was created.  Please don't come at me with that reality distortion field cult of jobs oh their hands were clean CRAP.  Because that's what it is: crap.  And it wasn't "until recently".  They stole the Xerox UI, and have sued or try to sue anyone else doing exactly the same thing.

Only smart thing C= did late in the Amiga's life: ignore Apple's stupid, frivolous "look and feel" lawsuit.

[B00tDisk]

Windows 7 is the best version of Windows yet!

Now having said that, I will add that it still sucks.  After having gone through using the Atari ST TOS (which was so simple that a monkey could figure it out, in fact that's what the guy who sold my family the Atari Mega STe said) to using a bit of the AmigaOS (which I loved) and the on to Windows 95.  I hated windows 95.  It was always such an unstable piece of junk.  Of course part of that may have been the crap packard bell we had it on with it's soundcard/modem on the same card...  But reguardless, it just never felt right to me.

Ha ha ha...oh god...Packard Hell and Win95.  A match made in satan's asshole.

Honestly, you'd have been better off giving up computers at that point and taking up gardening or something.  I had to "fix"more Packard Hell OEM windows 95 "upgrade installations" (from Win3.11) than I have time or care to remember.  All of them, nightmarish hair-pulling experiences.

I'd like to know what doesn't "just work" on Win7 for you but I have neither the time nor inclination

[Nostalgiac]

long story short:

w1-3: LOL... pelease...
w95 ? nah.. I stuck with OS 2.1 and later 3.0 on my A2000 + Mac OS 7.5
w98 ? skipped it, OS 3.0 at home, Win NT (3.51 with shell 4.0) and then 4.0 at work
wME ? never even seen it
w2000: YAP, by then my A2000 was retired
wXP: good job; and Linux (suse 6/7) was not up to it yet :/
wVista: hahahha... ahum
w7: where I am now... with Solaris (oh yes, GREAT server OS), SUSE 11, Centos 5, Ubuntu... as very useful although I run them mostly in VM as I'm mainly using them as server/test OS's

Work-wise I will likely take an increased interest in Red Hat (server side)

Tom UK

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Ha ha ha...oh god...Packard Hell and Win95.  A match made in satan's asshole.

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[Speelgoedmannetje]

Btw. doesn't everybody just dream of a Compaq pentium 3 with Windows ME and all kinds of goodies pre-installed, like AOL and Norton Antivirus? And when stuff is screwed you can only use that cd that came with the computer wich also very conveniently automatically re-install all these fab goodies?
You know, those were the days!

[tone007]

I'd pay a ton of cash for something like that with a C=/Amiga logo on it!

[lsmart]

Apple have been chasing end users around with sharp sticks since the fucking company was created.

True, but in the early 2000 they embraced BSD-UNIX and KHTML, extended gcc and even open sourced the core of Mac OS X. They also supported Java much better than Microsoft. It was a brief period in their history and is the reason why so many geeks show up with Mac Books at hacker conventions today. Apple badly needed the developers, because there was no software for OS X and they knew how to play by the rules of the community.

Nowadays developers are paying Apple to be allowed to develop for iOS and Apple can dictate pretty much any rule they want to. This is not a healthy situation.