Windows 7 was bad??

[FearoftheNight]

A link to the article would be helpful. Who knows what was lost in translation from writer to OPs post.
Anyway Win7 was fine. Not exactly ground breaking or revolutionary in anyway but it is stable and performs well.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2471126,00.asp

 

[Skaendo]

All I can say to the author of that article is; If you don't like Windows, don't use it.
I thought that I could go on a rant, man that guy has me beat.

 

[Mem]

well you see, i'm a gamer, and the innate lag that windows 8 has on anything kinda kills it for me.

note how i managed to use all nice words to describe w8 and none of them mean fecal matter.

Pure FUD,as a gamer myself I have used Win7 from day one and also Win8/8.1,still get top score in my team matches now and then on Win8.1 etc,all MY games are stable and fast.

Note I managed to use nice words about all the FUD I hear about Win8 ,I do hope when Win10 is released the FUD will stop,but somehow don't think so.

Btw if you are referring to this old one(over a year ago) http://www.pcworld.com/article/2062...s-8-1-mouse-issues-but-not-for-all-games.html pretty sure it was fixed a while back,besides does not stop me getting high scores in online gaming on my Win7 team mates,they can't blame mouse lag cheating on me .

 

[lifeblood]

All I can say to the author of that article is; If you don't like Windows, don't use it.
I thought that I could go on a rant, man that guy has me beat.

His article was hilarious. I remember reading his articles back in the day and thought he was a little annoying then. I see he's not improved with age.

Still, I have to ask, did MS removing things in Win 7 that were in Vista? They tweaked things, but did they remove features like he's claiming?

 

[Ketchup]

His article was hilarious. I remember reading his articles back in the day and thought he was a little annoying then. I see he's not improved with age.

Still, I have to ask, did MS removing things in Win 7 that were in Vista? They tweaked things, but did they remove features like he's claiming?

One thing I can think of that might accidentally throw into that category would be how they moved ReadyBoost. In Vista it was in Services. In 7 you can only disable\enable it on the Flash Drive itself when it is plugged in.

 

[blankslate]

well you see, i'm a gamer, and the innate lag that windows 8 has on anything kinda kills it for me.

That may just be an issue with Win 8.x on your particular build.

As others have noted. Win 8.x is actually an incremental improvement on Win 7 under the hood overall in terms of performance and security.

I expect that Win 10 will further increase performance and security whilst satisfying both advocates of Win 8.x's UI and those who used things like Classicshell or just stayed with Win 7.



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[Rhonda the Sly]

His article was hilarious. I remember reading his articles back in the day and thought he was a little annoying then. I see he's not improved with age.

Still, I have to ask, did MS removing things in Win 7 that were in Vista? They tweaked things, but did they remove features like he's claiming?

Features are gained and lost with every version of Windows. I'm not gonna go through the list myself, so I can't vouch for the quality, but Wikipedia has one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_7

 

[Zaap]

Heh. Dvorak still writing click-bait nonsense.

 

[mikeymikec]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2471126,00.asp

Summary:

Paragraph #1: Blah, blah, blah.

#2 - Fact (AFAIK)

#3 - Opinion backed up with nothing at all.

#4 - Perhaps there's something wrong with your Win7 box?

#5 - Win7 was head and shoulders above Vista yet it's the least impressive of the three PCs you own. Author doesn't notice the obvious logical disconnect between paragraphs 4 and 5.

#6 - Opinion backed up with nothing at all.

#7 & #8 - Opinion backed up with nothing at all.

#9 - People grudgingly complained about Windows 8, yet there's an air of passive acceptance regarding Windows 7? What has the author been smoking?

#10 - This guy is a tech author? He seems to need technical assistance from the average teen (not being able to figure out how to connect a Vista machine to a wifi network, it's hardly any different to XP in that respect either!)

#11 - This guy hasn't figured out the Win8 full screen app rationale? How about MS Surface and other Windows tablets? What an idiot.

Vista apparently got a bad rep due to MS's arrogance, but he doesn't specify how exactly, or how Win7 is worse.

 

[Ranulf]

Heh. Dvorak still writing click-bait nonsense.

Its shocking!

 

[Bradtech519]

Windows Vista was released at the tail end of the era of "512 MB" RAM being enough to get by. A lot of PCs installed everywhere were designed to run Windows XP & Vista crippled a lot of them needing more resources. As RAM got cheaper, CPUs improved, and people started going up to anywhere from 1-4GB Vista ran a lot better. By the time Windows 7 released hardware caught up to run either Vista or 7 well. I did find Vista still didn't feel as quick as 7. Microsoft did make a lot of optimizations & was the better Operating System.

 

[Zaap]

Vista was a dog (when it first came out certainly) on systems with 2GB, 4GB even 8GB of RAM and more compared to XP. Im sure there were some real masochists that ran it on 512MB but honestly I don't recall runnkng across any system with that little RAM in 2007-2008.

 

[Zaap]

Summary:

Paragraph #1: Blah, blah, blah.

Its really not worth debunking. Its meaningless pap with some sort of controversial headline designed only to get hits on a website. The tech equivalent of those annoying little "15 celebrities you love to hate" type garbage that infest the web. Dvorak has been specializing in it for nearly 20 years.

Someone even wrote a script that can generate a random Dvorak click-bait article that's virtually identical to any of his.

http://fortune.com/2014/08/03/why-everything-is-bad-for-apple/