I’ve never been much of a Windows-type but I used it now for 2 months on an old computer and this is my experience.
- Things are less cluttered, it’s not yet an OSX desktop but the large amount of tiny icons in the systemtray is more organized now for example.
– It looks like they finished the Vista interface, not my favorite but it’s more polished now.
– It’s more aimed at the future with touch support, ssd features and an interface for bigger displays.
– The speed and stability of the RC is incredible, I’m running Windows 7 on a PC that was originally sold with Windows 2000 and had a graphics card from that same year. XP could just run on it, vista was VERY slow and aero didn’t work BUT Win 7 runs suprosingly smootly and the aero interface just works without lagging.
– It handles hardware better, you know vista could search the internet for missing drivers but 9/10 times it didn’t find a thing? Now it found drivers for a secondhand hungarian network pci card and even driver updates show up in Windows update. It makes shure you run stable drivers with the least amout of bugs.
– The annoying things about Vista are now minimized. The UAC (messages that pop-up for alowing to run software) now have a slider to set how much it wil show up (standard is a very few times).
– I can run 3D games on that old machine that I never could.. Windows 7 gets less in the way when I try to use my hardware to the max.
– Windows 7 is more energy efficient.
@RandomMrAdam Win7 AND Vista have the same kernel as Windows 2000/NT/XP. I’m not going to idolize Windows now, it still sucks to rely on but Windows 7 IS the version that should have been released after XP.. Vista was a major fail in the middle!