To put it in a short way, NO, Vista has improved over time with Service Packs and Patches but W7 was running good from the get go, no any patches and Service Packs that improve performance on Vista will most likely improve performance EVEN MORE on W7.
Nope.
It takes my laptop at least 3 minutes to boot with vista, windows 7 on my desktop 2 minutes or less. And the laptop is running less programs at startup.
Vista insists on asking permission [user account control] on everything administrative even if you are using the admin account, windows 7 reduces half of these messages because it knows your using the admin account.
The service packs haven't improved vista, only added to the amount of HDD space the OS now uses.
Not exaclty an apples to apples comparison.
But I can say that win7 booted quite fast on an older core duo laptop, so it can be zippy, I never tested vista and win7 on the same exact hardware though. Desktop is bound to be faster, esp than an old laptop with old slow drives and such.
Install process on slightly older hardware with win7 goes surprislingly smoothly as well.
I hope people realise that we couldn't have had Win 7 be as good as it is without going through Vista first. MS introduced a new driver model and it took time for hardware manufacturers to catch up, they changed the user accounts from admin to lower privileges for the first time, they gave clear guidance to app devs about where to store app data and on and on.
Win 7 is really benefiting from all the hard work done by Vista.
Did Vista every change its approach to security with its service packs? The hot idea behind Vista was that it was supposed to save the user from himself. This is conceptually impossible... and only resulted in them clicking through dialogue boxes on autopilot. Vista tried to stop me saving my own files on the C: drive and one day locked me out of them. And I was the only one who logged on, always as administrator...
I hope people realise that we couldn't have had Win 7 be as good as it is without going through Vista first. MS introduced a new driver model and it took time for hardware manufacturers to catch up, they changed the user accounts from admin to lower privileges for the first time, they gave clear guidance to app devs about where to store app data and on and on.
Win 7 is really benefiting from all the hard work done by Vista.
That's not an opinion you see very often. But it's spot on.
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No you wouldn't but some do
I'd say Windows Me was a trial - it was awful
It wasn't great, the most common thing I got with ME was that damn blue screen of death.
My dad uses W7 and he's always showing me some of its new features and talking about it. I pretend to be interested of course
Not exaclty an apples to apples comparison.
But I can say that win7 booted quite fast on an older core duo laptop, so it can be zippy, I never tested vista and win7 on the same exact hardware though. Desktop is bound to be faster, esp than an old laptop with old slow drives and such.
Install process on slightly older hardware with win7 goes surprislingly smoothly as well.
Win 7 is really benefiting from all the hard work done by Vista.
Like you do
That's not an opinion you see very often. But it's spot on.