Windows 7 sins

[B00tDisk]

I've been riding the Windows train since 3.11, and I've gotta say 7 is all right.

95 was such a huge leap from 3.1, but 98 and 98SE ...eh, not so much.

I administered and supported NT4 in an enterprise environment.  I had a love-hate relationship with it.  There were things that I wished I could do with NT on my '95/'98 boxen at home, and vice-versa.

Win2000 floored me: I loved it.  Multimedia + ease of use + NT and all that came with it?  Sign me up!  Loved it.

I stayed away from XP until early 2003 or thereabouts, but fell in deep like with it.  Sure, in a lot of ways it was just a reskinned Win2000, but in a lot of ways it was better/different.

Windows Vista - I think MS is at fault on this one (obviously) for understating system requirements and an over-reaction to XP security vulnerabilities that could be accidentally opened by users, but some of the blame lies on OEMs for poor driver development and crapware pre-loads.

I ran Win7 on a VM on XP.  On that VM, I had allocated half my RAM (1gb), and it typically used about half my CPU power at the time (1.1ghz) and aside from no Aero support (I think it was actually VirtualPC from MS I ran it on and the minimal video card emulation in there can in no way support Aero), it was fine.  I didn't have nearly as many nags with the UAC, I ran Office 2007 (EE), installed Firefox 3, surfed the web, used it for general tasks most of the time.  It wasn't like oiled glass or anything but it still worked and worked well, and for a beta, was entirely stable.

When the final release hit I picked up a student discounted copy, and have been using it since.  Good OS.

[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