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View Poll Results: Windows 7 love it or leave it? | |||
Love it | 135 | 76.70% | |
Leave it | 12 | 6.82% | |
wait? what? | 15 | 8.52% | |
buy a mac | 23 | 13.07% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 176. You may not vote on this poll |
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Windows 7 love it or leave it?
just got a 7 machine, I am just getting used to it and like it thus far, seems stable an light weight.... could it be that Micro_hit has finally got a better OS than apple?
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After using Vista for a week, I had to go back to XP Pro. After using 7, I stuck with it. I like the new taskbar and how it was much less annoying to use than Vista.
ATM I've got a MacBook Pro with OS X and a custom-built PC running 7. I wouldn't say one OS is really better than the other, they've both got their pros and cons. |
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i like it, i've been using it since jan 2009 and i can't complain.
everything runs great, even on my netbook win7 professional runs fine
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I've been using it since beta (I test new operating systems for work). I think
it's much more user friendly and stable that Vista. That was just an awful product. Windows 7 still has some issues with driver availability, but all in all I think it's a much better offering than Vista. Especially after turning off UAC.
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I haven't had a single issue with that at all
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I have a PC running (if you can call it that) on Vista at work. I'd cheerfully migrate it to Windows 7 if I could. As for myself, I'm sticking with XP Pro on my home PC since it does what I need.
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Could not live without media center. Got every tv in the place hooked up to it, 4TB worth of hard drive space filled with almost 3 TB of movies and TV shows. Works like TIVO with virtually unlimited hard drive space and then some.
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir.../download.aspx ETA: With XP Mode you install your apps in the VM and then you can launch them from your Windows 7 start menu on your main desktop, no need to boot the VM. You will need a CPU that supports virtualization for this functionality to work though.
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Microsoft really stepped it up with 7. I'm in the very small minority of people that actually left Macs to come back to PCs (still use the iPhone though). Remember folks, with Macintosh you are paying just that little extra bit to be part of the "cool crowd".
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Love it! Best Microsoft OS to date. Haven't tried any flavor of Mac OS, yet, that can hold a candle.
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I've used 'em all and can tell ya I like Windows 7 , I use the 64bit Enterprise edition all day at work, but at home I use OSX 10.6 on the computer I use the most, it also has win7x64 installed via bootcamp.
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I have considered a mac, but they are way too complicated for a simple guy like me to figure out
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Not really. I bought mine without the "cool crowd" mind set, and with the amount of crap I have downloaded via Limewire and other virus filled downloading engines...3 years later it still runs like a champ. I don't know if I could ever go back to a PC unless I went gaming. Sure you pay more with a Mac, but I was blowing up PC's at least once a year before the switch Oh and to the OP, Macs are super simple once you get the hang of them. I used them in college so that helped. Everything just works together
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. William Burroughs "25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, four out of five US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who's crazy?" -- Andrew Ford |
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oh the irony...
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Just remember. With few exceptions, (ME, Vista, 98) Windows O/S work well at first. Once the brain dead hackers begin to figure out how to attack it with viruses, trojans and worms, and you are required to download critical updates every 4 hours just to keep it alive, it will just be another aggravating, bloated, undependable O/S.
Will someone PLEASE start from scratch, design a new o/s for PCs, keep it crisp and clean, and give me some alternative to all of the garbage that comes out of Microsoft? PLEASE!!??? |
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It all comes down to the fact that malicious people who make the viruses and trojans and what not will choose to make these with the greatest area of damage or effect. They will then choose to target the OS that is more widely used. This leaves everything up to the users to be smart and not be doing things that allow them to be attacked in such a malicious ways. |
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THEIR ONLY CRIME IS CURIOSITY |
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I will admit it's been rare...I think M$ learned part of their lesson from Vista. (We couldn't get drivers for love or money...HP springs to mind)
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Love it for sure.
MS for sure learned a lesson from Vista. Windows 7 has been by far the most stable Windows I've ever used. The main thing I don't like is the graphic heavy UI. It's too Apple for my taste. The pictures are cleaner but they tell me less at a glance than words. Overall though the execution of 7 has been clean and stable and reliable for me. |
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http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/
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I remember back in the day my friend tried downloading Revenge of the Sith with Limewire... and it didn't turn out to be a George Lucas movie. Of course I know that Calgunners would never violate Copyright protection laws.
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I was using the RC for a few months before it was released. when i stopped being able to use that, i actually went out and bought a copy of windows 7 ultimate. It's the only operating system I've ever paid for.
So yeah, it's really good.
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Wanna have fun with Limewire?
First, use Frostwire, it is as fast as the paid version of Limewire and it is free. Second, search for documents, type in "resume" and you will be on people's PCs. Now click "browse Host" and viola, you are ON their computer. Free voyeurism. |
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Limewire is free, the paid clone that was floating around was from a 3rd party and contained a ton of spyware.
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How did you do that?
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