It’s our old friend, Jim Louderback, who writes: “The more I play with
Windows 7,
Windows 7 X86, the more I see the Vista debacle unfolding all over again. The commonly accepted wisdom is that
Windows 7 is oh-so-much-better than Vista. Well, based on my own extensive testing,
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Jim,
Office Standard 2010,
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Over the past two months, I’ve been testing the Win7 release candidate not on brand new hardware,
Buy Windows 7 Enterprise, nor on the free systems Microsoft has been providing to its favored reviewers. Instead, I’ve suffered through trying to upgrade a wide variety of systems that are a lot more like what you’re probably running – 1-3 year old notebooks and desktops. And what I’ve found is sharply different from the overweening bootlicking being spewed by most reviewers.
I don’t fault them – well, not too much. They’ve been running
Windows 7 in a best-case environment,
Windows 7 Professional, and I’ve been running it in the worst. They have access to a near-limitless supply of new computers, new notebooks and new peripherals from vendors eager to ride the expected coattails of Microsoft’s triumphant release. I’ve been relegated to testing
Windows 7 on the old systems that you and I are still running.
They love it. I’m not so sure. I’ve installed
windows 7 on 8 different machines – a mix of notebooks and desktops – and I’ve downgraded all but two of them. Why? Because despite the hype, it worked more slowly, crashed more often, and just flat out didn’t work right.
So I’m here to tell you that
Windows 7 is definitely a step forward – but not for many existing computers. You may not want to hear this, but Vista Service Pack 2 – the current upgraded version – is actually better, in many cases, than
Windows 7.
I just forwarded this to Ballmer, with an e-card that said, So happy for you, sweetie.
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