Vista - Windows 7 Pros & Cons.

To the geeks running / testing Windows 7.
I would appreciate your considered views on the new OS, pros & cons.
From a mere Vista mortal.

I've been using it for about a week now, and I haven't seen any life changing features. The handy one I've noticed is default printers can be bound to a network, so say you use your computer at home and in the office, the OS is smart enough to know "I'm on the office network, default printer is the office printer." It's got plenty of useless GUI changes that you can see in screen shots, and some like shake where you click and hold the title bar, shake the window and it minimizes. Woopie! On my notebook that runs vista flawlessly, 7 doesn't show any speed improvement. On my bosses Eee PC it runs a lot better then vista, so I imagine the low end PCs will benefit the most from the 7 upgrade. I actually have to keep checking MS's list of features because I really don't notice what the excitement is about.

I have been using the various builds since pre beta. There are many things to like about 7. Many of these changes are 'under the hood' so to speak. Better security, better use of ram. I like the new taskbar, and Libraries have made things much easier for me. I'm not much for Aero shake, but Aero snap is great. If you want to find out what's going on check out the sister site, Windows 7 Forums.

Gary

I can see libraries being useful, but I have my own organizational system that I have no problem finding my stuff. Just curious, what security features have you found better?

Did you notice that it uses the resources of xp? But gives you vista type features that actually work without errors? All pc users benefit when the resources of a operating system are reduced allowing us to do more. Vista was a step in the right direction but the kernel they built on was trash. Windows 7 is the future of Microsoft and its about time. Furthermore to answer your question of what the excitement is about, the low resources and the ability to have a operating system that doesn't have issues all the time allowing us to be more productive.

Hi Shawngee,

Can you be more specific about what you mean by it uses the resources of XP?

Ofcourse the main failing of Vista was that it required such high system resources
IE: Processor speed, amount of ram
Vista was sometimes marketed with 1gb or 2gb of ram which was a very bad idea for such a resource hungry operating system such as it is. I have been testing Windows 7 for a while now and have found that it uses a fraction of the resources that Vista does. That is not the only upside since i have been testing it i have not had one issue with it. Now when i got Vista on my brand new Sony i had serious problems with it. I just got a new Asus laptop with Vista 64 bit and even with sp2 it still has issues when preforming simple tasks. The kernel vista was constructed on was a pos to be completely frank, also it was rushed into the market instead of going back to square one like they they should have and have done with Windows 7.


Ever asked yourself why they put xp on most netbooks? Well Windows 7 is bringing us back to that. Lets just hope they dont screw it up on the way out the door lol.

I ask because I see no difference in speed or performance between Vista SP2 x64 and the various builds of 7 on my machine.

I cannot identify any lower resource usage - except perhaps a bit less disk space.

I am not using any exotic components - then again, I am not using a laptop , either.

Precisely which resources can you see it using less of?

It is able to run properly on a single core processor with lower specs. Also it can run fine on 1gb of ram without slowing to a crawl like vista does. Do you monitor the use of your processor/cores and ram/virtual ram all the time? Also have you tested it using vmware to give you a better look since you can restrict resources?

Also just to let you know i am not a Vista hater, i am actually one of those guys that stood up for Vista. I find Vista was a good step in the right direction but the step could have been better. I feel that Windows 7 is that step and about time.