Windows 7, is it really worth it?

Loony, I'm not going for the home version after I used to have vista home premium on my laptop... God that was a horrible OS which had no security features whatsoever

 

Windows Vista has a lot of security features. What you said is what someone hopping on the "I hate Vista" bandwagon would say. Vista does not deserve most of the criticism it's getting. I use Vista, and I don't have any problems with it. It is not a horrible OS. Vista is much more secure than XP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_safety_features_new_to_Windows_Vista

 

Yeah sometimes i have to go through two approval screens just to open a program

 

I think it's strange that when I was debating with a mate over PC vs MAC ( Her argument was "but it's so easy to use!) my other friend came in and said, "Well you have a MAC and you have windows XP, I have vista home edition so i beat all of you". He ten told me that vista was better because it looked good and ran faster than his old computer which had windows 95. when I explained why I didn't like vista he said " yeah vista is pretty gay"
people are just saying they hate vista, even when they haven't had problems with it.
I tried to explain what windows 7 was, but he thought It involved buying a new computer with windows 7 loaded on it .

Also, my italian teacher let me play with her new laptop (government is giving all yr 9's and teachers netbooks, yay I miss out by a year -_-) and it had windows 7 on it, Which I think is pretty cool for a netbook .

 

But you said that you didn't like Vista either, so aren't you the same way? :

 

I never liked the idea of vista-too pricey for what I saw as a minor upgrade to XP.

 

ok im going and upgrade(clean install) to 7(64bit) soon, 1. will it use vista backups? 2 is there any lack of hardware support i should know about?

 

err darn, thats a lot of copying. k thanks for the info, i thank i will install it on a test partition first, so i know if theres any major hardware issues. it takes 8gigs of install space correct?

its about time to change since vista been going blue screen on me from time to time

 

Microsoft says 16 GB for the 32-bit, and 20 GB for the 64-bit. See link.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/system-requirements

 

dang thats a lot, no test partition then

 

If the installer is a .msi, we can use ORCA to edit out the OS string...

 

what would that do?

 

how exactly did we go from about 2-3gb [or less] to 10-15gb?

 

I don't know... 98 was only a few hundred MB, but for some reason, my XP Home takes up close to 6GB

 

yeah, as loony said, the reason the new windows take more space is because they added more games and a bunch of other crap that you dont really need, not to mention making the newer versions of windows look more 'Appealing" to most users. also it might have to do with the fact that the hard drive size of PCs is alot larger than it was before which lets them make the full windows install larger.

 

Really? My XP is less than 800 MB (it's on a CD).

Anyways, I would like to go ahead and say yes, 7 is worth it, if you haven't gotten Vista already. 7 is a speedier version of Vista (I'm sure everyone knows that Vista is slow as crap), and you might as well upgrade, because sooner or later, software is going to leave XP in the dust.