Windows 7

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Looking similar does not make it the same thing. It doesn't make any sense to complain that your OS upgrade didn't do anything just because of the lack of visual differences - why would they change the way something looks just for the hell of it?

XP users who didn't switch to Vista were smart, and now is a great time to finally upgrade. You've been using the same OS for a very long time...I think you can afford to finally spend some money on an upgrade.

Windows 7 is much better than Vista - it runs faster and more efficiently, doesn't crash ever, and has a ton of productivity features added in. The changes were mostly under the hood, but it has made things better in every way.

Every single time I have used Vista, both on other peoples computer and my own, has been a horrible experience.

Also, if you're part of the MSDN, you get Windows 7 for free.

This smells of somebody who hasn't used a recently patched version of Vista. Anybody who had Vista with the latest patches has seen most of what Windows 7 has to offer. Vista is in a much better place than it was when it first launched. Netbook owners are the main group that will see a notable speed increase over Vista. There were some multi-core optimizations, though nothing as extensive as Snow Leopards Grand Central Dispatch (OS X also has better OpenCL implementation).

On the surface, you're going to notice a different taskbar (more like OS X's dock) and some screen management options for organizing/resizing windows (essentially a poor execution of Exposé).

Don't get me wrong, I like Windows 7 (I'm tri-booting with Ubuntu and Snow Leopard). But I can't believe anybody thinks it's worth what Microsoft is charging for it.