How to Make Windows 7 Not Suck
By Chris on Friday, June 20th, 2008 at 10:51 AM PST In Computer, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Gamer Life, Microsoft
While I’m perfectly happy with running Vista Ultimate on my desktop (that could be due to the fact that I didn’t have to pay for it), it seems like I’m in an extremely small minority of Windows users who actually like Vista.
Windows 7 (that would be the next iteration of Windows) is reportedly in the works and is not as far away as you might think. Given the reception to Vista, Microsoft clearly needs to go about things differently with Windows 7. ExtremeTech put together an article outlining some of the keys to having things turn out a bit better than they have with Vista thus far — namely, limit the number of SKUs and don’t make it so freaken bloated.
Trim the fat. Get rid of everything unnecessary to the average user to increase performance. If power users want to install extras or enable obscure services, let them, but stop assuming that every computer needs every possible service running by default. The same goes with anything running in the background. Be ruthless: If it doesn’t need to be there all the time, make it go away.
I couldn’t agree more with that. By default, every possible thing sans the bare necessities should be disabled. From there, those who actually want the more advanced features could choose to enable them, but for everyone else — i.e. the average user who is unlikely to need many of those features — they shouldn’t be turned on, so as to improve performance.
Check out the full article at ExtremeTech.
Vista does indeed suck – Thank god XP still has 3 years of free updates.
most people hate vista because they have a crappy computer. if it eats resources get more douche bags
I have vista and I don’t hate it. I don’t really like it either. Why would I? There are few things that are better than in xp and few things that are worse.
My computer is good so I don’t care if vista eats resources.
I haven’t had any problems with vista. I have been able to play dos games, 95 games, 98 games and xp games, without problems. Though, I did have to download a few things but who cares.
Most people who hate vista are either idiots with bad computers or just idiots.
Vista is loathed because it offers NOTHING for £100+ so why should I pay that for gaining nothing. Word is working fine in XP so why do people need to upgrade? Thats why people hate it. Nothing to do with system resources. I have vista running below min specs and its fine. But Word is no more productive than when run on XP. If you cant read between the lines then you suck. Imagine a company buying 6000 copies having the pain of installing and testing etc.. when it doesnt do anything more. They spend £600000 or whatever to do gain nothing absolutely nothing. Microsofts advertising cannot tell you anything that warrants an upgrade. Its only OEM copies that are selling as people are forced to have it.
They spend £600000 or whatever to gain nothing, absolutely nothing. Microsofts advertising cannot tell you anything that warrants an upgrade. Its only OEM copies that are selling as people are forced to have it.
Maybe Vista would have helped me on my original post??