Windows 7

[Hakaku]

[Dav]

that was a quick move.

 

You think they are admitting the really screwed up with vista?

[Drake7707]

not that fast, there was just a looooooooong time between xp and vista, now they try to get back to the more usual time boxes like pre-xp

[Cancer+]

I thought Vista was supposed to be the last Windows ever made. It was supposed to be supreme.

[PoLiX]

Microsoft dropped as much money into vista as the US did putting a man on the moon. So in theory, it was suppose to be, but they say vista is more of just a step towards the future, as they we're so behind all the new features processor and chip companies we're coming out with. They had to do something, cause XP SP3 won't cover it all, nor should have, as it'd almost be a whole new os compared to sp2.

[»1587200]

Well, so far Xp Pro is the best OS MS has put out, next to 3.1 and 98SE. However, I think this attempt, and given MS's history, I'm sure they'll just repackage Vista and sell it under a new name to the masses, so people will buy it up and MS will maximize profits. Then again, this could actually be a new OS, and since Vista is basically ME with a new GUI, the next one could be good (granted is not quite the resource hogging waste of time Vista is).

[Drake7707]

aisde from the resource hogging and from a technical view, vista is a lot better than xp under the hood in terms of security, stability, etc.

The only problem is that people using windows don't want invasive security (otherwise they would have chosen some crappy linux version long ago) and that it takes up too many resources if the gui is maximized (you can turn that down though :/, but you lose the shinyness)

[»D1st0rt]

98SE? NT4 was way better than that piece. 2000 (NT5) was also pretty decent. The reason XP was so much better than ME was that it's really just NT6 with a lot more focus on driver support

[rootbear75]

ME was just bad on all grounds... there's really no point to compare it to anything