Thread: Windows 7

I only have one gaming computer. All the games I currently play require a lot of power, and unless they get them to run on OpenCL somehow, I'm not switching.

Originally Posted by ThreeLetterSyndrom

I agree with Ninja that it needs a huge overhaul. Throw out the registry, kill the dlls.

And that would pretty much kill one of the major features of windows: backwards compatability.

Originally Posted by ThreeLetterSyndrom

...once you start installing stuff, you'll get 1 minute boot times, I think.

Well, that says more about those other apps than windows now doesn't it?

Originally Posted by ThreeLetterSyndrom

The mouse: Apple's Idea!

No it wasn't. Learn your computer history!

Originally Posted by Stalker

No it wasn't. Learn your computer history!

He's right, Xerox built the first modern mouse, they just never released it. Apple bought it from Xerox, Microsoft pirated it from Apple.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

He's right, Xerox built the first modern mouse, they just never released it. Apple bought it from Xerox, Microsoft pirated it from Apple.

Not really. Xerox didn't invent it (but they did sell systems with them, just not very successful ones) and several companies sold workstations with them before apple picked it up. That microsoft should have stolen any of the design elements in early windows from apple is impossible to say. Both companies were heavily "inspired" by star. (Or go ahead and say that microsoft stole it. In that case so did apple and the point is moot.)

I've had it downloaded for a few days, but have not got around to trying it out. I don't know why, I just don't really feel like it.

May have something to do with me requiring cleaning out one of my hard drives. Virtual machines are pointless if you want the full OS experience, else I would have installed it on one by now.

I'm not switching.

I'm not switching simply because I have never had a problem with Windows. I've used 95, 98SE, XP, and now Vista64.

I don't understand what people's issue with installing tons of things and having long boot times are. We are not running Pentium 3s with 64MB of RAM anymore. The only thing that gets effected, from my point of view, is my boot time. My computer maybe takes a minute to boot (the only slow thing). Once it is up an running, it stays up for a very long amount of time. Everything runs quickly, and it never slows down.

There was a time when I tweaked the shit out of Windows so that it would feel very responsive. With Vista, I haven't touched a thing. Hopefully Win7 takes off, but to be honest, I'm not feeling much an urge to upgrade, but then again I have to try it out. I should get around to that sometime soon.