Top 10 Tech Winners for 2009

[tyler811]

1:Who would have thought that something good could come out of Microsoft not once but TWICE in the same year. Windows 7 seemed to do everything that Vista didn’t. It works, it’s stable, it has drivers for the stuff that’s out there and the UAC (User Account Control) is scaled back. Way to go Microsoft - this earns you our coveted number ONE SPOT in this year's list of Tech Winners.

http://www.geeks.com/techtips/2009/t...s-for-2009.htm

 

[theflyingpig]

Two threads combined into one: Top 10 Tech winners and losers for 2009. Everyone knows this.

 

[Cogman]

Blech, I hate these stupid anti-vista reviewers.

Newsflash: Vista works, it has drivers, and UAC wasn't THAT annoying (and could be disabled).

But, NOOO, We've got to bash MS every chance we get, just because our lives are tiny and insignificant.

The ironic thing about reviewers like this is that they don't realize that Win7 is really just vista with a UI update. That's it, the core hasn't changed a whole heck of a lot. Some things where tweaked and optimized, but under the hood it is really quite similar to vista.

Vista from XP was a big change, and reviewers like this one were too short sighted to realize that, yes, changing your driver infrastructure is not an easy thing. Honestly, I'm surprised that the vista driver transition went as smoothly as it did.

 

[JS80]

I can't even tell the difference between Vista and 7.

 

[adlep]

I can't even tell the difference between Vista and 7.

UAC is much more laxed with 7 (by default). And don't tell me about adjusting it up or down because an average joe will never mess with any of the default settings of the OS.

 

[Zebo]

Please win 7 is just hated Vista w/o a option to revert and cascade start menu like classic and a few less intrusive instructions. Peapole are sheep.

 

[Zebo]

SSD's coming of age should be number 1 and it's not even listed.

 

[Zebo]

Blech, I hate these stupid anti-vista reviewers.

Newsflash: Vista works, it has drivers, and UAC wasn't THAT annoying (and could be disabled).

But, NOOO, We've got to bash MS every chance we get, just because our lives are tiny and insignificant.

The ironic thing about reviewers like this is that they don't realize that Win7 is really just vista with a UI update. That's it, the core hasn't changed a whole heck of a lot. Some things where tweaked and optimized, but under the hood it is really quite similar to vista.

Vista from XP was a big change, and reviewers like this one were too short sighted to realize that, yes, changing your driver infrastructure is not an easy thing. Honestly, I'm surprised that the vista driver transition went as smoothly as it did.

I agree Vista was better if only for a decent, read:cascading, start menu. Any fool can disable intrusions everyone complained about..

 

[rockyct]

I really liked Vista because I didn't have driver problems, so of course, I also really like Win7. It's nice to see the bandwagon joining now.

 

[dwell]

Well, if geeks.com says so...

 

[Exterous]

Please win 7 is just hated Vista w/o a option to revert and cascade start menu like classic and a few less intrusive instructions. Peapole are sheep.

I noticed that most of it was press. I would hear people all the time say Vista was bad. When I asked them what was wrong I would get:
My brother's wife's friend's siter-in-law says its bad and she knows about computers
or
My software from 1995 doesn't work so Vista is bad

 

[Platypus]

I can't even tell the difference between Vista and 7.

The absolutely HORRIBLE UI in Windows 7 is definitely a big difference.
Vista worked fine for me, even with a bunch of legacy hardware... too much unfounded bandwagon hate for that one.

 

[Lonyo]

I was with the sheeple hating on Vista, then I got a Vista laptop, and didn't really care.
Once you get used to it, it's fine. The main issues are with using it on a laptop - not a great experience.
Vista vs 7 on a desktop though? Not a massive difference.
I think that's almost where Microsoft win. People hated Vista so much that even though 7 isn't anything special, just by not being Vista in name, everyone welcomes it as the second coming of Jesus.
The only reason I bought 7 was because it was very cheap compared to any other copy of Windows ever (due to the preorder offer in the UK being for the full version instead of upgrade).

 

[Mide]

7 looks and feels exactly like Vista. That being said, there is still no reason to upgrade, XP is humming along just fine.

 

[Cheesetogo]

I love the remark about 7 being stable. During the 3 or so years that I ran Vista, I never had the OS crash once.

 

[Platypus]

7 looks and feels exactly like Vista. That being said, there is still no reason to upgrade, XP is humming along just fine.

...except for the whole completely different UI that is. How can you say it looks exactly the same?

The task bar is fucking atrocious in windows 7...

 

[RESmonkey]

Vista gets bad criticism because stupid people exist.

 

[dwell]

Windows 7 is just the Mojave Experiment having come to fruition.

 

[ElFenix]

I agree Vista was better if only for a decent, read:cascading, start menu. Any fool can disable intrusions everyone complained about..

i have no idea why they got rid of that. it's like they decided the quick launch should be self updating and be the start menu.

 

[Zebo]

7 looks and feels exactly like Vista. That being said, there is still no reason to upgrade, XP is humming along just fine.

I felt 2000 was humming along just fine until MS decided to end Direct X support for 2000/XP.

I don't like the confusing explorer view with unneeded libraries and favorites folders clogging pane. I know where I put shit.

I don't like the newer search windows.

I don't like the new control panel view where nothing is where it seems.

I don't like the new start menu in 7, classic option should be there.

I don't like confusing file sharing/networking.

I don't like having no file menu and ribbons instead in new MS apps like paint, word, wordpad etc

The only thing decent is eye candy if you're into that sort of thing, 'security' (not that I ever had a virus with 2k/xp) and search box but that takes moving off mouse into keyboard.

But MS found a way to finally force us off XP - discontinue Direct X support because they knew adoption rate would be very slow otherwise.

Someday you'll have to move - best thing to do is start with a smile on your face by going over to a MS shill like Paul Thurotts site and reading how wonderful it is.

 

[Zebo]

i have no idea why they got rid of that. it's like they decided the quick launch should be self updating and be the start menu.

It's like the states who change their licensee plates every couple years - new guy just has to leave his mark whether old works just fine or not. MS has those guys too and worst part is they won't let one revert to classic.

 

[silverpig]

SSD's coming of age should be number 1 and it's not even listed.

Because they haven't. It's just the techie early adopters who have them right now. It'll be 2010 for the SSD coming of age.

 

[Zebo]

Because they haven't. It's just the techie early adopters who have them right now. It'll be 2010 for the SSD coming of age.

I disagree Anand does too - calling it a quantum leap in computer performance and drives an order of magnitude (base 10) faster than vraptors, the fastest mechanical drives out.

 

[Arkaign]

I wish the classic start menu was in Win7 as well.

Win7 is a lot more different under the hood than people think, primarily because the interface seems so familiar. It isn't the huge change that XP to Vista represented, but it's a considerable improvement.

 

[silverpig]

I disagree Anand does too - calling it a quantum leap in computer performance and drives an order of magnitude (base 10) faster than vraptors, the fastest mechanical drives out.

That site listed hdtv as #10. HDTVs have existed for what? 8 years now?

Social networking is #5. I got on facebook 2 years ago. And I was late.

SSDs are very niche products, are very expensive, have very low penetration, and still have problems. Intel had huge firmware issues this year, Samsung JUST released a firmware updating tool maybe 2 weeks ago along with their first TRIM support, and Indilinx is still cutting their teeth in the SSD arena. The SSD market is going through it's initial growing pains.

Next year we'll see sizes of SSD drives going up and prices come down. The firmware bugs will be ironed out and manufacturers will start offering desktops with a 120GB SSD and a 2 TB storage drive. The SSD will come of age when it is either standard or a very popular substitution, not a $300 add-on for a loss of 1300 GB of storage space.