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Originally Posted by brian5
PersonaNonGrata,
As someone who ran Win Vista for 6 months and then went back to Win XP, I was a little sceptical with all the hype about Win 7.
Anyway, after trying Win 7 for a while, I was so impressed (by the UI, the capabilities, the stability, and the speed) that I went out and bought a 64-bit capable PC so that I would be ready when the Win 7 RC comes out. I have Win 7 x64 and Vista x64 on that new PC right now. I can not believe how well Win 7 recognized everything that I have installed in, and connected to, that new PC.
So I can't really talk about specifics that I like about Win 7 yet (as I'm actually enjoying Vista x64) but there is no doubt that Microsoft has finally come out with a worthwhile OS upgrade -- the last good one was Win 2000!
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That's good to hear. I have never run Vista for MANY reasons and stuck it out with XP Pro until now. I just built a new box around an E8400 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM on an Asus P5Q board and Radeon 4850. so I wanted to run a 64-bit OS. I figured "what the heck". It has been fast and I also like the UI. It's quite pretty and updated over XP. I also have a Mac running OSX and Windows 7 has a bit of that feel with things like the lighted dot beneath icons in the menu bar and miniature preview windows when you roll over items in the pseudo "dock". The menus have a more intuitive feel and things seem to laid out more logically.
There are still quite a few bugs, I think. For example, I could not for the life of me get my printer installed via Airport Extreme until finding a fix online. There are others, I'm sure and I am hoping when RC comes out that it will be mostly fixed.