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Windows 7 Is the Next Windows XP
snydeq writes "Windows XP's most beloved factors are also driving business organizations to Windows 7 in the face of Windows 8. 'We love Windows 7: That's the message loud and clear from people this week at the TechMentor Conference held at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash. With Windows XP reaching end of life for support in April 2014, the plan for most organizations is to upgrade — to Windows 7,' indicating 'a repeat of history for what we've seen with Windows releases, the original-cast Star Trek movie pattern where every other version was beloved and the ones in between decidedly not so.'"
Windows 8 - Review http://www.pcgamesn.com/article/why-i-m-uninstalling-windows-8
If only I could get rid of many of the most annoying features, like those damn pop-up previews along the task bar - f**king hell those are annoying.
I try to get it to look as plain as possible, I don't go for whizzy aero/glass/whatever looks. I just want things to work, because I'm often stressed and whizzy gets on my nerves.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Providing they actually reach beta status by April 2014.
I have, and for my work its too limited while fucking up every office 2007-2010 format ever sent to me
yay its free, now all I have to do is reformat every table in this 30 page document of tables cause nothing fits on a printed page anymore yay!
its fine for home use
The issue with WinME was this: it would accept both older VxD drivers and newer WDM drivers. Their jerry-rigged solution to make VxD drivers work made the system extremely unstable. But as long as you used only WDM drivers, it was solid.
Circumcision is child abuse.
How you shut down the machine hasn't changed since windows XP. You press the freaking power button.
There's a reason that computers have software-based shutdown. Because less shit goes wrong than when you hit the power button.
whatever you want to call it, its not release
What part of Release To Manufacturing (RTM) is unclear to you?
If you collect statistics, then you need to make sure that the sample you are collecting is representative of the population. Otherwise your statistics are invalid. This is basic statistics (and something to keep in mind for poller "Internet Panels" that try to measure anything to do with the general population rather than the Internet using population).
If your sample isn't representative of the population then you need to adjust your results by weighing so that your sample statistics correspond closer to those in the population. Now, maybe Microsoft tried to do something like that but, since there isn't any kind of baseline questionaire when you agree to let them get feedback, it would be pretty difficult for them to establish weighing categories for the sample that can be adjusted to match corresponding category proportions in the Windows user population.
Laissez lire, et laissez danser; ces deux amusements ne feront jamais de mal au monde. - Voltaire
for over a decade (since atx iirc), the power button triggers a software based shutdown in the os.
Michael J. Ryan - tracker1.info
Sysadmin here:
* No major problems adjusting to Win7 after I set the theme to Windows Classic. Running it with all the bells and whistles confuses people.
* Running users as standard users is still the same pain in the neck. Running users as administrators and it will still ask you to click through a bunch of crap which pops up EVERYWHERE. However some applications don't request elevated rights but still need it (Java-based programs for instance) and as a result they simply crash with no message whatsoever.
* Users are still dumb and will click everything. I simply wipe the system if a malware infection occurs but I don't see a big difference in rate.
* Device drivers for Win7 is a pain in the neck with the signing and the x64/32-bit. I have to hack in certain drivers and some manufacturers still haven't released a driver and XP drivers although they use the same model and similar kernel simply can't be used for some reason.
* I never had much use of the MS imaging tools
* Unless you have bog-standard hardware sleep and hibernate still doesn't work reliably and for some reason laptops keep waking up when closed.
Other issues:
* Have an external PCIe card? Won't even hot plug. Needs a full reboot.
* The MS high-res timer drivers are crap on Windows 7 and software can't take exclusive control over them
* Video card retrace signals are horribly inaccurate and software can't take exclusive control over them
* Want to set a system with 120Hz or higher refresh rate? We'll also encrypt that signal for you with HDCP even though no content is playing back and screw up your whole custom DVI-D setup
* Very slow SMB copy (20MBps where it should be 120MBps). Teracopy (3rd party software) solves the issue.
* Still no native NFS/LDAP/Kerberos support
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XP did not 'work' from the beginning. It wasnt until SP2 it was a respectable and stable OS and even then SP3 smoothed it more. XP taught me to image the drive right after main install finishes because drivers could completely bork the install and you'd be back at square one. . There is still a ton of cruft left in my workflow because of how shitty XP was in the beginning.
Erm... no.
On windows you actually set the behaviour of the power button (power options under control panel, edit a plan settings, then advanced settings, power button and lid options). By default I believe a 4 second press just hard reboots the computer and that's outside of the OS, but the power button will variously be configured to hibernate, sleep or shut down the machine.
Now if you're not exceptionally savvy on the difference you may not realize when it has hibernated versus slept or the like, but they aren't the same thing, and that's sort of the point, your 4 options (shut down, sleep, hibernate, restart) should all be in the same place, and you shouldn't need to do a google or bing search to find out how to do so.
They you had very little experience of DOS 2.1. The only DOS versions that even slightly worked were 3.3 and 5.0.
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It's not like you have to wait for Microsoft. The already is an an open source shell the emulates the old Windows behaviour.
Still no native NFS/LDAP/Kerberos support
It's called Active Directory.