Will you buy Win 7?

With only a few respondents, it seem the questionaire on "will you update to win 7" appears loaded. It seems Microdaft creates a version of windows no one in their right minds can use, then changes its corporate attitude and creates another "fixed" version later. Surely Vista is the BETA version of Windows 7 and Vista was a Proof of concept type product, foisted on users to see how far they could push them with a faulty product. I am still battling to get my windows XP sp3 to be recognised as a legitimate product. There comes a time when the users rights must be seen as the first priority, and not the last, as Microdaft looks to new ways of regaining cutomers confidence. It appears to me that most problems are rightfully Microdafts attempts to be sure to the last bit of data that its legitimate, but shareholders wont be so pleased when it ceases to provide regular income. I am looking at ways to use Ubuntu and there are many others who feel the same way. Meanwhile the real reason to use microsoft is games for many. Port them to ubuntu and you will see a major increase in reliabilty and increased Ubuntu use. I am fed up...

Of course, most people who can be bothered will just download it, and change their bios so that it installs as oem.

You should have added another selection......

No - Vista is already fine

Most business users remember the rock-steady OS called Windows NT (SR6). Damn thing looked clunky but just kept on working. When it came to business applications that actually turned work into money, all you needed was a P4 & 512Mb and you were flying. And NT is so reliable that the embedded version is still used in the aerospace industry as the basis for most of the flight management & satellite navigation systems.

It works.

Each succeeding Microsoft OS has gotten bigger and delivered less ROI. Major problem being that it's designed bottom up instead of top down. Case in point: applications default to reading/saving to My Documents. If you have 10 users sharing 10 PCs then there's 10 local, not backed up sets of user files. After 2-3 years and average staff turnover, you have 20-30 sets of My Documents scattered around the network and good luck on finding a critical document from 30 June 2007. Throw in a domain instead of a workgroup, add roaming profiles, and watch the nightmare of 50-90 sets of My Documents. Utter madness.

If Windows was a 'real' operating system, the first time you added a new user to a PC you'd be asked - 'do you want all your work stored in folders in a shared area?' And that would be the default.

As for Active Directory - the only way to document what each user's settings are is to do 16 f***ing screen dumps. Puleeze!

There will always be people who need the latest gizmo: theonion says it best http://www.theonion.com/content/video/sony_releases_new_stupid_piece_of

Did you lump Linux in with OSX to boost its numbers so you could justify all the Linux exposure in the magazine while continuing to ignore OSX ?