I like how they copied the Se7en from the movie called that..

if they add a game mode im in but i think i heard its going to take up the same amount of resource as vista. to tell u the truth i think this is vista just reworked to they can shake off the negative press they have. i like vista now and i cant go back to xp but i mostly use ubuntu now when i am not gaming.

I hope its fast.

From a gamer's perspective -- main problem of Vista is that it takes hell lot of RAM unlike XP (SP3 makes it even better). I hope they fix it with Windows 7.

Its been reported that Windows 7 is just Vista reworked. I dont mind that too much once they make it a bit faster and less resource hogging. Also a game mode would be nice but they said it wont be done because of the way people use their computers differently. They said they wont do a gaming mode because of application compatibility. Its laziness in their part I think.

FTW! Mac OS X comes in a really close second ;) In reality both Mac OS X and Linux as far as usability, security and stability are far more superior to Windows Vista, Windows 7 and to an extent even Windows XP. So much has been done in such a short time with both these operating systems that Windows is becoming less and less a factor in what OS to use for everyday productivity. Sadly OS X is only available on Macs and Linux is only available by default from Dell. If Apple were to make OS X available to the x86 running public as well as Linux being pre-installed options on more than Dell it would be a nicer world to compute in.

Yep, it's just Vista with a new name.

If people also don't like Windows 7 then MS will tell us that they've secretly been working on Windows 8 behind the scenes and will release that a few months later.

It's win win for Microsoft because whenever people don't like their new OS then it becomes an opportunity to resell it again with a new name.

So they'll be hoping that we all totally hate Windows 7. haha

They've got us all by the balls.

"7", looks good. We shall see what M.soft does with it.

They spell it "Se7en"? WHAT'S IN THE BOOOOOX!?!

vista is the best.

"While windows 7 doesn't undo these architectural changes—they were essential for the long-term health of the platform—it equally hasn't made any more. Any hardware or software that works with Windows Vista should also work correctly with Windows 7, so unlike the transition from XP to Vista, the transition from Vista to 7 won't show any regressions; nothing that used to work will stop working.

So, rather than low-level, largely invisible system changes, the work on Windows 7 has focused much more on the user experience. The way people use computers is changing; for example, it's increasingly the case that new PCs are bought to augment existing home machines rather than replacement, so there are more home networks and shared devices. Business users are switching to laptops, with the result that people expect to seamlessly use their (Domain-joined) office PC on their home network. "

so it's pretty much vista with a new GUI or as they call it user experience.

Is it just me or hmm.. Have I seen that desktop before? I mean, I recall hearing something about KDE 4 ? and maybe an application named NetworkManager that lives in the tray that actually look exactly like that? ;o Well.. Okay:)

FAIL!

iMac thanks.....

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It sounds worse than Vista

will be more stable and faster than vista

Vista isn't bad. I dang sure use to be but now... Its pretty good.

It's a shame that a lot of programs that I use aren't MAC friendly...

I think Vista received extremely to much heat. Yea MS shouldve made sure that more drivers were ready for it upon release but most of the problems were with old programs on a new piece of software and I dont see how windows 7 will make much of a difference 2-3 years down the road. People will be downplaying windows 7 and praising vista like what happened with all windows versions when they come out.

I hope they don't expect us to upgrade our computers to use a OS like they did with Vista.

mac is better hands down. the only thing mac fails at is gaming but thats what consoles are for.

Did anyone thing they were going to scrap Vista? Windows 7 is new features built on Vista, 7 even looks like Vista minus some new user interfaces. I personally haven't had any issues with Vista and found it more stable then XP (I use Vista SP1 32 bit on my notebook and tablet notebook). I want to use the 64-bit version one day but drivers and software support aren't there like with the 32-bit version. I guess the intial Vista pre-SP1 blew chunks and left a bad impression. Windows 7 seems more like that MS Mojaive Project Commerical, where people were using Vista but thought it was a new OS called Mojaive and like it, now it's call Windows 7.

Looks great, but "Windows Se-seven-en"?

*sniff sniff* smell that? it kinda smells like..windows fails

I digg it, good job MS Im a vista lover, other than driver support in the beggining it was a nice OS now that its caught up, Its savy. W7 looks clean.

I never had issues with Vista, actually I might go as far as to say that it was a welcome change. But the experience I got from UPGRADING to it wasn't all that great. nVidia didn't have any Vista compatible nForce2 drivers back then (and still doesn't) so it became unintuitive to replace my fully functional and still completely operational xp install.

However their support has gone up and stability is there. And Aero is really pretty. I've given up on PC gaming and would see more use out of my GPU coming from the OS and other programs more than in an actual game. That's what we buy consoles for! I'll still play the occasional UT3 or COD4, but that's because K/M is still the best you'll ever get for 1stPS.

Vista's not bad at all. It's just that in this world of "customer satisfaction", when the people say there is something wrong with your product you have to forget everything YOU think is right with it and see things THEIR way. Or lose the customer.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau