My only major complaint with Win 7 is that for some reason they disabled the ability to turn off sorting and auto-arrange in folders. This is a deal breaker for me and I won’t be upgrading until they fix this.
Nah. Win7 is pretty much a major service pack for Vista. It’s like SP2 for XP - a pretty significant change in functionality in some places, but essentially a collection of fixes, applications, and behavioral changes.
I’ve been using it since the beta, and it was the most stable, most bug-free beta I’ve ever seen. I never had it crash on me once. There was almost no difference between the beta and the RC candidate. They could have shipped the RC as the release version and people would have been happy with it.
Although Win7 is really a point upgrade to the Vista codebase, it really feels like a different operating system. It boots much faster, the little usability enhancements actually turn out to be a big deal in day to day use. It’s much less of a resource hog because many of the vista services that were loaded by default no longer are. As a result, it runs fine on a netbook computer.
Microsoft has finally produced an operating system that can stand with any of the others that are out there. It’s the best version of windows ever made. And let me tell you - if you have a house with multiple PCs, putting them all on Windows 7, then getting Windows Home Server as a media/storage hub is a really nice solution for a home workgroup. I’ve finally got daily backups of all our machines, because I didn’t have to do much of anything to get that working. I finally have common shares and backups for our home videos and photos - before, some glitch or another would always make that difficult to manage. Win7’s libraries make that much easier to manage. I can tunnel into my home network from the internet through SSH and access the computers on the network, so all my files are always available to me no matter where I am or what computer I’m on.
You could do all this stuff before, but it was painful. Now it’s all dead simple, and it works.
But thumbs up for Win7 here.
I put 7 on a machine at work and it seemed fine; no problems. I then put it on another machine to test and it keeps restoring back to Sys Prep. It may be that computer though, I couldn’t tell you.
I’m not a big fan of Vista, I really like XP and it seems like MS wanted it to be pretty and bubbly for an OS, but they wound up with something a little too heavy.
WHS is really cool, but are you aware that it has issues with the RC of Windows 7? I’ve yet to learn if this has been fixed in the final release. The biggie is that you can only access the backup database once. Power Pack 3 is supposed to fix this issue.
I did a clean format install 7 yesterday.
So far I love it! I’ll be changing all my Vista machines to it without hesitation.