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Windows 8 - Anyone Using It

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ulukinatme said:
I never understood why Vista got such a bad rap. I kept it on my desktop until only recently, and I've been running Windows 7 on my laptop for 3 years. If you ask me, Windows 7 just feels like Vista repackaged with a better toolbar. The rest of the UI seems exactly the same, pretty much all the same features. Haven't used Win8 yet, but I was under the impression it was built more for touch screen devices.
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Vista gets a bad rap because it was terrible, second only to the likes of Millenium (shudder). While Windows 7 may seem to be much like Vista, it is a much more complete and stable operating system. I'd rather work with Windows NT 4.0 than either of those operating systems.
 
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BrutuStrength said:
Vista gets a bad rap because it was terrible, second only to the likes of Millenium (shudder). While Windows 7 may seem to be much like Vista, it is a much more complete and stable operating system. I'd rather work with Windows NT 4.0 than either of those operating systems.
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Eh, as someone that used Vista and Windows 7 side by side for 3 years, I stand by my statement. Maybe I just got lucky, but in my experience Vista was no less stable or complete than Windows 7. Maybe it was worse at launch, who knows. Windows 7 really just felt like Vista repackaged and with a nice toolbar.
 
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ulukinatme said:
Eh, as someone that used Vista and Windows 7 side by side for 3 years, I stand by my statement. Maybe I just got lucky, but in my experience Vista was no less stable or complete than Windows 7. Maybe it was worse at launch, who knows. Windows 7 really just felt like Vista repackaged and with a nice toolbar.
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You can stand by whatever statement you want to, but it doesn't change the fact that it was a terrible release (again, the only release that was worse was Millenium). Our company actually cancelled our roll-out and ran XP until Win 7 was available. If it worked for you, then great, that is a rarity though.
 
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Yeah, Vista was pretty bad by all accounts at launch, but they got the performance issues tweaked and the bugs fixed...probably before or after the first service pack. Our company stuck with XP until Windows 7 too, but only after it had been released for a year and only on new machines.

Check this out: http://www.neowin.net/news/from-the-forums-was-windows-vista-really-that-bad

This is spot on:
I was glad to upgrade to Windows 7 upon release but to me it was simply Vista 2.0 - I never understood how people could hate Vista but love Win7.
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BrutuStrength said:
You can stand by whatever statement you want to, but it doesn't change the fact that it was a terrible release (again, the only release that was worse was Millenium). Our company actually cancelled our roll-out and ran XP until Win 7 was available. If it worked for you, then great, that is a rarity though.
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Honestly, I have yet to hear of a company that has rolled out Vista. Well, a company that I have come across. Atleast the company that I help provide support went from XP to Windows 7 in Spring of 2012.
 
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DoctorWho said:
Honestly, I have yet to hear of a company that has rolled out Vista. Well, a company that I have come across. Atleast the company that I help provide support went from XP to Windows 7 in Spring of 2012.
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I can name one:

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And it was a fucking disaster. they halted it about 20% of the way in to "fix bugs" and never fully completed the rollout at WPAFB until Win7 was available.
 
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Too lazy to search for a link right now, but I read an article yesterday (on CNET I believe) That HP was going to start shipping new computers with Windows 7 again due to complaints about Windows 8 and 8.1. Curious to see how that effects sales.
 
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