Windows 8 Arrives

Re:Windows 8 Arrives by rossjudson on Thursday October 25, 2012 @04:33PM (#4699425)

I see Vista characterized as a failure over and over again, and Win 7 as a success. Win 7 is somewhat better than Vista, but the distance between them isn't that great. Besides the fact that UAC prompts were more frequent in Vista, was there some particular problem with Vista?

For a year or two there I was running workstations with both, and didn't see much difference.

I think Vista took the heat for imposing security where none existed.

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Re:Windows 8 Arrives by OriginalSyn on Thursday October 25, 2012 @05:09PM (#4699592)

It's the little things that add up, Vista is like Win7 with an itchy wool sweater over top. Win7 refined UAC, the quicklaunch/taskbar is amazing and the running task previews actually work, the start menu app search is better, the system tray notifications can be more finely tuned, and it runs significantly better on mid/lower end hardware.

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Re:Windows 8 Arrives by petitmiam on Thursday October 25, 2012 @05:21PM (#4699638)

I hardly notice a difference between Vista post SP1 and Win 7.

Vista had teething problems early on which burnt a lot of people. Unfortunately, that's what seems to be stuck in everyone's minds.

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Re:Windows 8 Arrives by tsotha on Thursday October 25, 2012 @06:04PM (#4699791)

I ran both Vista and Windows 7. As far as I was concerned, in terms of usability they are both pretty much the same as long as you turned indexing off on you Vista drives.

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Re:Windows 8 Arrives by mulletbum on Thursday October 25, 2012 @05:02PM (#4699567)

Do you feel like Vista ran slower than 7? That was my issue with Vista, the new design was fine, but it just seemed to run poorly compared to the speed of 7.

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