Windows 7, a step backwards ?

[I am Penguin]

.. BTW I got my 7 off the newservers. update works and the miscrosoft virus scanner does not pick up anything.

PM linky?

 

[d0b33]

Dude of course they put the stuff on their servers, you think the millions buying news server bandwidth don't bring in some good money? They upload all the shyte so people can basically pay for it.

lmao, your software conspiracy theories take the cake, virus companies write viruses and newsserver companies upload pirated stuff.. classic.. lol

 

[PeterCH]

I'm an IT techie and I've loaded Windows 7 more times than I care to remember and yet not a single install have we had problems with 7...if there was a driver missing just hop to windows update and there it was. Only real problems is the customers complaining they don't know how to use it cause they been camping on XP for the last 8 years.

Yeah blame the customer. After all to use Windows safely you need an IT degree. It's MS fault their stuff is different in interface, if they care about the user experience and had to care (if there was competition) they would have designed a proper WinXP/Win2000 interface for Windoze Seven so that people who are not IT geeks and aficionados can continue to work on their things instead of screwing with the OS in order to figure out how to do the same things they knew how to do easily on XP (with 8 years of experience and all).

Windows 7 is the best OS from Microsoft to hit the market and sales prove it too.

The sales don't prove anything. The sales figures just reflect that you can't buy WinXP easily and that all PCs now come bundled with Windoze 7 OEM. It's not like most people are making a choice - the choice is made for them as Windoze 7 is preloaded on all but the most basic of netbooks where Windows XP was resurrected to compete with Linux.

If you have driver problems it means you're probably using some cheap hardware made out of someones garage in Zimbabwe...

Fanboys will always say such things. Their OS is never at fault.

 

[I am Penguin]

Yeah blame the customer. After all to use Windows safely you need an IT degree. It's MS fault their stuff is different in interface, if they care about the user experience and had to care (if there was competition) they would have designed a proper WinXP/Win2000 interface for Windoze Seven so that people who are not IT geeks and aficionados can continue to work on their things instead of screwing with the OS in order to figure out how to do the same things they knew how to do easily on XP (with 8 years of experience and all).


The sales don't prove anything. The sales figures just reflect that you can't buy WinXP easily and that all PCs now come bundled with Windoze 7 OEM. It's not like most people are making a choice - the choice is made for them as Windoze 7 is preloaded on all but the most basic of netbooks where Windows XP was resurrected to compete with Linux.


Fanboys will always say such things. Their OS is never at fault.

Yep and Windows7 haters, ie Mac fanbois , will always try to post BS as it's their way to get back at the success wave Windows7 are riding. So Peter none of your prior release Windows7 claims came true?

As for the OP, in any OS system there will be some issues with some hardware compatibility. To blame Windows7 when there are millions of copies sold, and counting ,are just well ... wrong, so do some research, use the old drivers and install under compatibility, update from MS, just get new hardware or go back to Linux.

 

[DJNgoma]

@OP. OMG, just get a Mac IMO. You won't have to worry about all these problems and the requirement of a PhD in Windows. You would probably have less problems with Windows 7 on a Mac rather than what you are currently running on.

 

[killadoob]

lmao, your software conspiracy theories take the cake, virus companies write viruses and newsserver companies upload pirated stuff.. classic.. lol

Do you really for one second think these major virus companies do not have okes working for them writing virus's? Explain to me about news servers? Where do they host the files?

 

[DJNgoma]

Do you really for one second think these major virus companies do not have okes working for them writing virus's? Explain to me about news servers? Where do they host the files?

It's basically like law being mind without reason to a certain extent.

 

[d0b33]

Do you really for one second think these major virus companies do not have okes working for them writing virus's? Explain to me about news servers? Where do they host the files?

rofl... if you have some proof of them almost being caught hiring virus writers to write viruses i'll believe you but it's mostly ego driven noob programmers wanting to be in the news and data mining cartels.

Regarding news servers... lol dude, you need to read up wikipedia on the history of news servers

 

[PeterCH]

Yep and Windows7 haters, ie Mac fanbois , will always try to post BS as it's their way to get back at the success wave Windows7 are riding. So Peter none of your prior release Windows7 claims came true?

As for the OP, in any OS system there will be some issues with some hardware compatibility. To blame Windows7 when there are millions of copies sold, and counting ,are just well ... wrong, so do some research, use the old drivers and install under compatibility, update from MS, just get new hardware or go back to Linux.

You haven't read or comprehended anything I said. Windows 7 is now sold WITH new systems and you can't buy XP or even Vista anymore. And some people are having issues - heck two people in this thread have issues with Win 7. Seems that Linux does not have these issues. Was MS just too lazy to implement these drivers? Perhaps Windows 7 is too cheap - the full version sells for R3000+, perhaps they should have charged R10,000 for it, then they could pay their programmers to make sure everything works.

That does not prove that Win 7 is better than XP but just that MS has moved from XP to 7. I still run XP because using 7 would give me NO BENEFITS at all, it would cost me lots of time and money and I would have less available space on my computer after install.

 

[PeterCH]

Do you really for one second think these major virus companies do not have okes working for them writing virus's? Explain to me about news servers? Where do they host the files?

Yes, because if even one of these okes got out and blackmailed Symantec or McAfee and the news hit the press, every company would come under harsh government review and people would go to prison. These companies would all go bust.

I doubt that Symantec, etc are sponsoring any virus writers officially. If they were, then they'd be sponsoring guys to write viruses for Mac OSX in order to push EXPENSIVE Mac Anti-Virus software and that just isn't happening. Then again, it's difficult to write viruses for MAC OSX - maybe just impossible.

 

[killadoob]

Obviously they are not sponsoring them officially pete.

 

[d0b33]

Obviously they are not sponsoring them officially pete.

Who are they? you need evidence bru...