As far as Windows OSes go, 7 is probably one of the best they've come out with, and it's certainly heads and shoulders above ME Vista. They've finally learned to trim down the resource usage of the new Longhorn-family stuff (Aero, desktop window manager, etc), and made the user account control stuff not so annoying (not as good as Ubuntu/Linux's access control, but not as horrendous as Vista's). They're also starting to put their foot down on native support of ancient stuff (IE6 and other ancient programs don't work on 7 unless you know about/can enable "XP mode" or whatever it's called, which is kind of like MS's version of WINE exclusively for stuff that's only compatible as far up as XP), which is like the light at the end of the tunnel for those of us in web design.
While the OS itself isn't too bad, I guess they added a thing to their "Windows Genuine Advantage" software that requires the computer to report to the servers every 90 days or so to make sure it's "still genuine" I guess. How a previously "genuine" copy of an OS can suddenly become "not genuine" and still maintain all the exact information is beyond me, so the point of this other than another draconian DRM move is also beyond me.
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MEVista. They've finally learned to trim down the resource usage of the new Longhorn-family stuff (Aero, desktop window manager, etc), and made the user account control stuff not so annoying (not as good as Ubuntu/Linux's access control, but not as horrendous as Vista's). They're also starting to put their foot down on native support of ancient stuff (IE6 and other ancient programs don't work on 7 unless you know about/can enable "XP mode" or whatever it's called, which is kind of like MS's version of WINE exclusively for stuff that's only compatible as far up as XP), which is like the light at the end of the tunnel for those of us in web design.While the OS itself isn't too bad, I guess they added a thing to their "Windows Genuine Advantage" software that requires the computer to report to the servers every 90 days or so to make sure it's "still genuine" I guess. How a previously "genuine" copy of an OS can suddenly become "not genuine" and still maintain all the exact information is beyond me, so the point of this other than another draconian DRM move is also beyond me.