Comments on: Windows 7 – The birth of a great OS

By: YAY

YAY — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:35:02 +0000

windows 7 is the best operation system ive seen from microsoft ever. simple. easy and powerful. vista was aids, and understandably most people didnt convert from xp to vista, but i can see no reason at all to hang onto a now obsolete OS, except for people being to pig headed to discover that there is something better than that which they have come to love.

By: iehab mustafa

iehab mustafa — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:07:53 +0000

WaltC : @Mark Love, I loved the Amiga, too, but come on…;) Amiga was pre-Internet so there were no “security update” concerns at all for the Amiga OS to concern itself with. But the Amiga had other problems and lots of really great virus scanners to deal with them (remember VirusX?) In terms of raw hardware support, the Amiga OS can’t compare with Vista/Win7–and rightly so, considering how long ago it was that Commodore stopped supporting the Amiga OS–the hardware supported under Win7 hadn’t been invented yet. In those days you didn’t get “weekly patches” because there was no Internet to distribute them, and because OS R&D at C= was glacier-slow by today’s standards. Amiga OS had tons of unresolved bugs when C= folded. Still, I have nothing but splendid memories of those days. Would I want to go back to those days, however? Not on your life…;)

By: c0d3h4x0r

c0d3h4x0r — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:51:14 +0000

It sure would be great if you guys would actually fix the GPU scaling feature that is completely broken on Windows 7 x64 in both your current Catalyst drivers and your so-called “legacy” Catalyst drivers for your DX9 hardware products. As it stands now, I can’t play MAME in old 4:3 resolution modes (like 800×600 or 1024×768) on my big new 16:9 monitor properly due to the GPU scaling options being broken/disabled/unavailable on Windows 7. This is fundamental, basic functionality I expect to work and you all should be embarassed that it’s so broken in your drivers.

By: Juan Acai

Juan Acai — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:11:24 +0000

Hi,

I just installed Windows 7 on my HP laptop and, knock on wood, all is going well. I am upgrading from Vista – so anything would be an improvement over that! Just been a day with Win7, but it does seem faster and no crashes or viruses…yet.

By: JBond005

JBond005 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:07:43 +0000

I’m impatient to install W7 on my new laptop. I didn’tt skip Vista simply because it was pre-installed on my older laptop, which was the best for that price at that time, even taking into account the cost of Vista. And then I simply learned to tolerate it . Vista kills the productivity even with the most powerful laptops and occasional update errors are somewhat irritating. I still have Vista only because i don’t often perform tasks demanding too much resource + improved security compared to XP.

By: headbuzzard62

headbuzzard62 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:34:16 +0000

Previous comment meant to add that been using window 7 since begining of the year..Love alot of things with the OS, but for some reason at times my laptop will just shut itself down, or crash. I’v reported this to microsoft a few times with no reply, my question is has this happened with anyone else..Thanks.
Ron M

By: WaltC

WaltC — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:20:27 +0000

@Mark Love,

I loved the Amiga, too, but come on…;) Amiga was pre-Internet so there were no “security update” concerns at all for the Amiga OS to concern itself with. But the Amiga had other problems and lots of really great virus scanners to deal with them (remember VirusX?) In terms of raw hardware support, the Amiga OS can’t compare with Vista/Win7–and rightly so, considering how long ago it was that Commodore stopped supporting the Amiga OS–the hardware supported under Win7 hadn’t been invented yet. In those days you didn’t get “weekly patches” because there was no Internet to distribute them, and because OS R&D at C= was glacier-slow by today’s standards. Amiga OS had tons of unresolved bugs when C= folded. Still, I have nothing but splendid memories of those days.

Would I want to go back to those days, however? Not on your life…;)

By: Papisco

Papisco — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:21:01 +0000

wow.win7 64 bit is absolutely and obviously the very best among every other OS.my ati radeon graphic card which was 5.9 on vista is now 7.5.gaming is realistic now with FPS fixly on 60 frame.Omg we all have to cheer up and say congratulations to our winner:MICROSOFT.kisses to all fan of ATI RADEON wich is the best graphic card i won’t exchange with any other one.

By: Ian McNaughton

Ian McNaughton — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:53:16 +0000

I checked out your blog – got to get some content up there…

By: Ian McNaughton

Ian McNaughton — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:47:20 +0000

I have XP on one last PC at home, otherwise I am almost 100% Win7…