Comments on: Twelve reasons to respect Windows7 or not http://www.thomaspurves.com/2009/11/30/twelve-reasons-to-respect-windows7-or-not/ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:39:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Twelve reasons to respect Windows7 – or not » ThomasPurves.com | All about windows 7 http://www.thomaspurves.com/2009/11/30/twelve-reasons-to-respect-windows7-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-13322 Twelve reasons to respect Windows7 – or not » ThomasPurves.com | All about windows 7 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:18:39 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/?p=750#comment-13322 [...] the rest here:  Twelve reasons to respect Windows7 – or not » ThomasPurves.com This entry was posted by MikeWink and posted on November 30, 2009 at 5:33 pm and filed under [...] [...] the rest here:  Twelve reasons to respect Windows7 – or not » ThomasPurves.com This entry was posted by MikeWink and posted on November 30, 2009 at 5:33 pm and filed under [...]

]]> By: Jamie McQuay http://www.thomaspurves.com/2009/11/30/twelve-reasons-to-respect-windows7-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-13319 Jamie McQuay Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:02:02 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/?p=750#comment-13319 Great list Tom! I've been using XP since it was released and completely missed the thing they called Vista. Windows 7 has been a nice step up from XP. Great list Tom!
I’ve been using XP since it was released and completely missed the thing they called Vista.

Windows 7 has been a nice step up from XP.

]]> By: Mike Beltzner http://www.thomaspurves.com/2009/11/30/twelve-reasons-to-respect-windows7-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-13317 Mike Beltzner Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:51:33 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/?p=750#comment-13317 I can happily recommend Windows 7 to friends and family, something I couldn't do with Windows Vista. It reminds me of the Windows 2000/XP releases, where it felt like they needed a more product-oriented group to come in and clean up the mess left behind by the deep technologists. The thing which continues to frustrate me about Windows is a lack of cohesion; it feels like applications are islands, and it's hard to have them interact with each other. Part of this, I think, is due to the lack of a respectful and collaborative development community which expects to handle things like drag and drop operations. The fat-UI thing also bugs me, enough so that I put together a theme pack of my own to trim down the borders a bit and reclaim some screen space: http://twitter.com/beltzner/status/3689455275 I can happily recommend Windows 7 to friends and family, something I couldn’t do with Windows Vista. It reminds me of the Windows 2000/XP releases, where it felt like they needed a more product-oriented group to come in and clean up the mess left behind by the deep technologists.

The thing which continues to frustrate me about Windows is a lack of cohesion; it feels like applications are islands, and it’s hard to have them interact with each other. Part of this, I think, is due to the lack of a respectful and collaborative development community which expects to handle things like drag and drop operations.

The fat-UI thing also bugs me, enough so that I put together a theme pack of my own to trim down the borders a bit and reclaim some screen space: http://twitter.com/beltzner/status/3689455275

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