4 ms·
Microsoft Should Give Windows 7 Away For Free
- lionhearted 18y agoMy XP laptop died permanently a little over a year ago, and there was a Vista Toshiba at Best Buy for $1100 on a model that was $1400 most other places. Maybe there'd have better value elsewhere, but I needed something immediate so my work wouldn't be delayed and I got it. Vista: Not so bad. I'd love to see it less bloated with MS processes running invisibly, and I'd like to see it change the order things boot in so I turn it on and get up and running faster. Second issue: Some driver issues and some poor backwards compatibility with programs that run fine on XP, which is quite ugly. But beyond that, it's a good OS and a legit upgrade over XP. The UI is faster/better once you adopt to the learning curve. Security is legitimately upgraded, and I haven't been infected with any viruses or spyware, and I play around with random applications all the time. I like that I can easily stop non-MS programs from updating themselves without my blessing. Being able to choose giving a program default "Run as Administrator" vs. leaving it less privileges is really good. Vista's not enough of an upgrade over XP to be worth buying, especially considering all the good SP2 did. But everyone I know that's run Vista for at least a couple months came around on it, unless the drivers thing bit them. The Vista-hate is a bit overblown, though Windows 7 does look like a legit upgrade.