Anime-Junkie
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 |  Subject: Re: Windows 7 Woes  Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:36 pm | |
| | Archmage_Bael wrote: | | i cant imagine how hard it would be to program an entire operating system, all the libraries, the .dll's would be a pain. |
Depends if you program it to need lots of libraries and .dlls
| Malahite wrote: | | Anime-Junkie wrote: | | I suggest you watch this video, it's very informative about windows. |
I'd be very wary about taking any sort of Windows information from Mac, considering that most of their "Buy a Mac" commercials tend to revolve around nothing but gross exaggerations of their competition's flaws. |
It was a joke. |
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timing2
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| | Subject: Re: Windows 7 Woes Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:55 pm | |
| | vegasmazza3 wrote: | | I don't understand everyone's complaints about Vista... since I got it like a year ago on a comp I haven't had problems... aside from the annoying UAC... which I disabled. Maybe most of Vista's issues were fixed by the time I got it... I'm hesitant to upgrade (I get a free upgrade on my laptop) I fear horrorible things... maybe I'll do it in December... when I have more time and they work out more of the kinks. |
Vista was RTM almost three years ago and at that time it was ... unpleasant. I had the misfortune of doing platform testing all through the various beta and RC stages, so I may be biased against it. Driver vendors were not as prepared as they should have been and Microsoft's partner support in that area was severely lacking, considering the substantial architectural changes they made from XP.
You probably started off with SP1 as a baseline, and by then driver vendors had mostly figured things out, so you missed most of the unpleasantness. Consider yourself lucky. |
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DeviantDiscordian
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| | Subject: Re: Windows 7 Woes Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:07 am | |
| From what I understand, Win7 uses the same driver architecture as Vista, so there shouldn't be too many problems as there was with Vista's launch. I know that I'm running my standard programs like I was with Vista, although with some boosted performance. |
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timing2
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| | Subject: Re: Windows 7 Woes Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:09 am | |
| Windows 7 is effectively Vista SP3... or what it should've been. It's an incremental upgrade over Vista, rather than the complete rewrite Vista was over XP. There won't be nearly as many driver issues because of this. |
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Anime-Junkie
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| | Subject: Re: Windows 7 Woes Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:14 am | |
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