Worse than sucks
Okay, I’ve just tried out the Windows 7 beta, and here’s my conclusion.
If you think Windows Vista sucks, and you do think so because it’s the truth, please, do not bother to try Windows 7. You’ll be able to count the number of improvements over Vista on one hand, and you’re probably not going to need any fingers.
Seriously, Microsoft. When are you finally going to learn? All you did was rushing Windows 7 because nobody wants Vista. You rushed it so bad that it isn’t really anything new.
Please, Microsoft. Please. Take a few steps back. Take XP as a base and use that for the next edition of Windows. Don’t rush it, don’t add all the graphical bullshit that is really everything Vista/Win7 is, just stick to XP and add the few good things from the newer versions to it (such as DX10 support).
Everybody likes XP because it’s pretty stable, and it just works. I, and many others with me, seriously prefer the classic Windows UI over all the shit that was added since Vista because it’s easy to use, not too much bullshit, it doesn’t look all that bad, and it’s very resource-friendly. The ‘classic’ theme in Vista/Win7 don’t even look anything like it.
So much features in Vista/Win7 are unneeded for most of the people, and the few who do want them always prefer a better 3rd-party tool for the job. If I wanted to encrypt my data, I’d trust an external tool that has proven to be reliable, offers me enough options, is known not to have any serious flaws or backdoors, and has a good reputation. Instead of that BitLocker thing, because it’s either turned on or off and you don’t really have any idea what’s going on. BitLocker is only as good as the security of the rest of the OS (and considering Microsoft’s reputation, OS security in Windows is something that should never be trusted).
I already know that I’m just going to stick to XP, and if Microsoft continues on this tour, I might swap to openSUSE or some other Linux distro in the long run. Because in the end I want an OS with a GUI that I’m comfortable with to use, that doesn’t eat all of my system’s resources (and trust me that it goes fast with 3 screens) - and therefore offers the features I need and not the features nobody ever uses, and just works. Vista and Windnows 7 offer none of that.
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