Windows 7 is being met with largely positive performance reviews — and after the PC profanity that was Windows Vista, it had better be. The bloated Windows Vista, laden with clunky features and poor compatibility, was universally decried, and many users retreated back into the much more solid edifice of Windows XP. With its rapidly approaching release, we will see if 7 will redeem Windows.
PC World’s report was mixed, saying that while 7 had improved performance over Vista in most areas, it lagged behind it in a few, and was not that much faster. Overall though it is a much more efficient and compatible OS, and the PC community is in universal agreement is that Windows 7 is the true successor to XP (Vista slipping forever into the collective computerworld unconscious). Microsoft has taken a minimalist approach to the new OS interface, and is offering very reasonably priced upgrades to 7, completely opposite of Vista.
But the real threat for Microsoft, is, once again, Google, with its plans to release its own operating system in 2010, Google Chrome OS. It will be fast. It will be web-focused. And most incredibly, it will completely free. ”It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be,” Google says. If Windows 7 doesn’t deliver, the burial rites of Vista may be only a prophetic sign of the times as to the ultimate end of the Age of Windows, and the coming Reign of Google. It should be interesting to watch.
2 comments
jake says:
October 8, 2009 at 3:32 pm (UTC -7 )
But who knows: so many of the complaints about Vista seem to take the form of “a friend of my neighbor’s friend had this one problem with Vista.” I don’t get it. Not that it’s amazing, but I’ve never really heard a good explanation of why Vista sucks as bad as people say it does. Maybe the government is behind these rumors, with their ample supply of black helicopters and access to semi-human clones and all. Or maybe the computer-using public is just as fickle and unreasonable as the public at large.
Ryan says:
October 9, 2009 at 2:17 pm (UTC -7 )
Are you saying Wikipedia is no more authoritative than “a friend of my neighbor’s friend”? All i can say to that sir, is that there is a special place for you in purgatory. Besides, friends of neighbor’s friends are usually on the sex offender list. So I’m not sure exactly what you’re trying to say.
Anyway, lots of people say the flak Vista got was undeserved. I think a lot of it was compatibility issues, because they changed so much from XP to Vista. But from Vista to 7, not nearly as much has changed, and since the market is much more Vista compatible now, I imagine 7 will be much less frustrating for people. Another problem with Vista is that it had too many features, which slowed everything down. 7 though is said to be comparatively minimalistic.
And also, Vista had pretty high hardware requirements for its time, so it was bound to not run as well as 7 will, which isn’t nearly so physically presumptuous, like that playboy Vista.
Anyway, stuff just didn’t run on it, who knows why? Our company tried it, and switched back to XP. And if your calling our competence into question, we will seriously find you leave rude messages on your windshield.