Will Windows 7 make you switch?

[r0b010146]

WIndows 7 will be running as a Virtual Machine on my Mac.

I have Vista Ultimate, Black Edition at the moment.

But soon I plan to update...

[wase4711]

i guess if it is native 64 bit, can handle at least 32 gigs of ram, and will cost around 100 bucks...sure, I would try it then!

[digiz]

doubt it, windows is the reason i became a mac user!

[steve010000]

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[redOnion]

I highly doubt that I will ever switch to windows.
I came from using FreeBSD to OS X, and wouldn't have switched if it wasn't *nix as well.
Windows will never do it for me.

[nomadman]

I didn't think i'd ever load Windows on my machines until i installed 6801 on my P4 2.8GHz and 2gig ddr. Great job so far by MS. As far as switching, I can't say it will make me switch back because of the price scheme. I'll stick with OS X at home, and if i need Windows at work, i'd prefer to switch my XP to Windows 7.

[jariev]

I don't think I'll move to windows 7 at home but hopefully my company will update the computers because I'm a little bit tired of windows xp

[Dodgy]

I use and support both XP and Vista, Vista has caused no end of headaches. I hate it.

I dont really give 2 hoots about the MS vs Mac debate, if someone makes the best product then its likely thats the product I will be choosing. Do I think it will be Windows 7....no. Do I think Windows will do a good job of removing most of the "innovative" features it says it will be implementing, yes.

[theguyz]

Hopefully windows 7 will be a recode/remake of win98 se, as that still seems to be the only stable PC OS yet.

[zeig]

I've been reading about Windows 7 and I've seen where they are now blatantly stealing all the last aspects of Mac OS X they hadn't already stolen since Vista.

Also, it looks like Microsoft has made Windows 7 actually run on older, slower machines as well that would normally choke on Vista.

It would appear that Microsoft has even ripped off Apple's dock (finally) and now here's the clincher... it looks like their version might, just might, be better than Leopard's.

If Windows 7 becomes just like OS X but better, will you switch to Windows? Granted, we haven't seen Snow Leopard yet, but from what I understand, Snow Leopard isn't really going to have a lot of new bells and whistles and will be mostly just a stability and performance update.

Leave it to microsoft to be completely unoriginal yet again... I honestly think this is going to be another large failure
windows 7?
windows:
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7<<<<good one

[irondoll]

After using the Windows 7 beta for a few days in a VM:

1) MS have tied most of the significant "better than leopard" features in Aero which neither VMWare or Parallels support. Nor will the standard home basic users: this means they stop a segment of their users from using essential features of the OS (app and window management that is sorely lacking in previous Windows versions); that is utterly obnoxious money-grabbing.

2) Much better than XP for sure. I don't understand the new love-in for XP after Vista was released. I know, people realised how bad their OS could be, and were grateful for XP, but XP is really one of the worst OS debacles. Not in terms of core OS (the NT kernel was hugely better than the 9x series), but the horrendous security fiasco that is XP. On top of that a monolithic registry that fails to keep running smoothly. Bad isolation of system and user files causing "DLL hell". Vista was certainly more secure (bravo to MS, they've pushed the security envelope further than most other OSes), but hobbled by so many other problems.

3) I like the new taskbar, much better than before. as I think the aeropeek features of seeing other windows is the best exposé alternative yet (way better than that rubbish Vista 3D flip). But yes, basically the taskbar is becoming a dock.

4) Libraries are nice (driven by a much better search engine than in Vista). And libraries are basically "Smart Folders" in OS X speak. I do think they are very usefully extending "Smart Folders" by their HomeGroup networking enhancements, Media libraries will transparently span all resources on a home network. And Windows Explorer has *much* better grouping options than finder does.

5) Indeed much better resource usage than Vista.

To be honest, Windows 7 is Vista SP2 IMO. I think a lot of changes are progressive improvements and are welcome. I'm sure bits of the goodness need to be discovered with more use. But this OS is evolution not revolution. And under the surface many bits are still the mess of old dialogs from XP and earlier. It is still a UI mish mash and carrying the baggage of old paradigms. Nothing radical, and certainly nothing overall to unseat Leopard as the best desktop OS I've used (I'm a relatively new switcher, almost 2 years now, used PCs since MS-DOS 6)

[TimidTiger]

I don't think so, but it might make for a really nice platform on a netbook, can't really say yet until both snow leopard and Windows 7 are out to benchmark and compare.

[mrbubbles]

Hopefully windows 7 will be a recode/remake of win98 se, as that still seems to be the only stable PC OS yet.

I hit the Thanks button because I can't stop laughing at what you said.


Back to the topic at hand, no. Well, unless it's required by the very small amount of games I happen to play on my PC.

[macssorule]

Heck NO
Window is Evil

[uxuxux]

I will never switch, have never owned a PC, but might install on my Mac and give it a try ...