Topic: Windows 7 Complaints Begin

[Skhilled (OP)]

Here's an article I've read this morning...

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/108340/windows-7-complaints-begin

[Ken]

Sounds typical for all of the releases we've seen.

Users of the new operating system say the upgrading process is buggy. But once the kinks are worked out, customers are liking Windows 7 a lot more than Vista

Microsoft launched Windows 7 in late October to much fanfare. But, just like with previous Windows upgrades, complaints about bugs have already started rolling in.

A whopping 31% of clients have reported problems with upgrading to Windows 7, according to a recent survey of more than 100,000 customers conducted by consumer helpdesk firm iYogi.

[Skhilled (OP)]

Exactly! I think I mentioned something about not trying it for the same reasons in another topic. I was a Windows beta tester for 95, 98 and ME. I know how there are...

[Ken]

Exactly! I think I mentioned something about not trying it for the same reasons in another topic. I was a Windows beta tester for 95, 98 and ME. I know how there are...

Yepp... did a little beta testing for a while, so I head ya.

One I did was the Office 2003Beta... they sent me a pack of 18-20 discs that had everything in the Office suite.

[LoneWolf_53]

The motherboard on my main PC failed the other day so I've been forced to use this one which has Win7 on it and it definitely is still buggy.

My main beef is that when I come back to it after the monitor has gone into power saving mode the screen comes back up and mouse moves but all else is frozen until it decides to start again at its own discretion or I have to reboot it.

[Skhilled (OP)]

The main I've learned about Windows is that whatever the requirements are stated by M$ you have to double them to run without any problems...um, most problems. LOL

[LoneWolf_53]

I think I've nailed down the culprit.

When I disable autohide for the taskbar the symptoms seem to disappear.

[Skhilled (OP)]

Oh! I remember reading something about the "window" or screen that you are supposed to view things is screwed up...

[Lesmond]

Lisa was going to get me Windows7 for Christmas, but I decided  against it, may has well stick with Vista, it works fine for me, so why change!

[Sport]

I've Beta tested "7" since January '09 nary a whisper of trouble, the networking is child's play and "7" appears secure if you do your part! The only issues I've had are caused from vendors semi support...I'm not a big M$ fan ...but in my mind Win 7 is what Vista should have been...as important as upgrading to XP from Win NT...(I didn't like XP for along time!)

[Lesmond]

well I went for  a second dvd writer with light scribe plus 50/50 of each blank disc cd/dvd, new shirts and jeans lol, dont need any more hard drive space I have 2tb already!

[Sport]

If you are happy with Vista... a good choice!!!

[Lesmond]

yeah I am happy with vista, serves my needs really, as long as I can do my graphics and play music, mess with all the web sites I own lol, lost count of all those.

I am just starting a new project atm, which I am working on,  hopefully you guys will find use of more details to follow soon.

[Orakk]

No idea where MS stole the code for W7 but I found it a totally different animal to previous versions. Up till W7 I've always used WServer as desktop OS because it's always been more stable. XP64 used the 2003 kernal so it was the exception.

The one thing I like about W7 is it doesn't appear to slow down over time as did all previous redmond releases including server. I never attempt an upgrade, always fresh install.

[Skhilled (OP)]

Upgrades are usually when the gremlins tend to creep in a bit more. The betas and fresh installs tend to work fine during testing but then they make changes to the retail versions that are not usually posted on the beta boards. They've done this since as long as I can remember. They know the testers will post their findings over the net. They've learned from that mistake since 98.