woh. this is totally serious answer, but i wont explain to long. and yeah windows 7 is sucks more than vista.

last time(4~5month ago) windows 7 malaysia try to provoke bussiness manager etc…to buy windows 7. i quickly comment/condemn on their fb page.

So do you konw where the Any Key is on Windows 7, I got this thing that keeps popping up and asks me to press the any key. I figured you are one of these programmers that write those boxes, so you should know.

Windows ME was an experiment on programming ability: http://xkcd.com/323/

Rob wrote:

But is Vista worse than ME?

Nope. Vista is the new ME, but I don’t think it actually tops it. I still have no clue how could they make it so bad. Windows 98 was somewhat stable, and windows 2000 was pretty much rock solid. ME on the other hand would BSOD and then hose the whole installation if you looked at it wrong.

I’ve been running Vista for a few months and while more problematic than XP it is nowhere near as bad as ME.

Jereme Kramer wrote:

say that apples are inherently better than oranges.

Exactly. Asking whether Windows is better than Linux/Mac/Unix is like asking whether Republicans are better than Democrats or if Emacs is better than Vi. It depends what you want to achieve, what are your priorities and who you talk to. :)

My school offers me 7’s professional edition for free, so I decided to try it on my ancient Dell laptop that I have around for just such things. Despite getting a Windows experience rating of 1, it ran without a problem for the whole hour I spent trying to find a wireless driver. I’d run it on my new macbook, but XP gets along much more nicely with VirtualBox, and I really rather not go through the headache of trying to make this machine a triple boot.

The question I keep getting is “Is Windows 7 better than XP/Linux/Snow Leopard?”
I usually google up some benchmarks, show the conflicting speed results, and say that apples are inherently better than oranges.

I am sticking to this stupid piece of shit that is Vista. Reason number 1: I don’t want to pay for stuff which should be free. Reason number 2: there are enough morons out there who will crash-test Winddoh’s 7 for me. Reason number 3: my machine is good enough to run Vista without major hiccups, so why bother (ok, the network group issue is a famous pain in the arse, but that’s not worth all the money I don’t have to buy the Win7 upgrade). Reason number 4: why should I reward evil morons living in cold and wet Seattle that I don’t even know?

Fucking brilliant.

Could you thrice partition my Macbook Pro and put OS X, XP, and Win7 on there for me?

No?

Cool.

But is Vista worse than ME? I kind of think ME is the king of Microsoft’s OS failures. I mean, I think I was reinstalling Windows ME at least once a week for a while there because it kept failing. All I kept thinking was “I upgraded from 95 for THIS?”

I did upgrade to Windows 7 though and have to say I enjoy it much more than I did Vista. However you’re still right on everything you said. Most people don’t need to upgrade until they buy a new computer and should wait until SP1 comes out. Let us early adopters get all the kinks worked out. One of the only reasons I did it though was because I have a custom rig that can handle it and I got in on the $50 pre-sale back in the summer. I’m also getting a free upgrade from Dell for my recently purchased laptop.

On that note, I think I want to dual boot my laptop once I get the upgrade disc from Dell with Ubuntu 9.10. :)

Craig A. Betts wrote:

So, should I upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10?

Surprisingly enough the answer to this is YES. I mean, all you need to do is to press a button to get the wide range of benefits including new software, security updates and etc. Ubuntu is a whole different animal. :)