A misleading reliability score (Windows 7 in the real world)

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My experiences are not the same

Yes, Win 7 boots to the point where it can runs apps and shuts down faster than XP or Vista. It also installs a lot of drivers (LINUX fashion) when it is installed,and it is a little more stable than XP due to being picky about what it'll let you install particularly with legacy apps. BUT other than that I find very little difference in real world app speeds. (I've yet to run MS Flight sim on it) I've mentioned before, I'll be running XP for a very long time as I have some expensive legacy hardware that is no longer made and drivers are not available for either Vista or Win 7. Oh! After running Win 7 Beta, and Win 7 RC on two quad core machines since it came out I find it to be a royal pain in the back side when it comes to networking with non Win 7 machines and twice I've had the network running when "updates" blew workgroups right out of the water. One time required reinstalling Win 7 to get it to work again. Part of this may be do to working with a new OS, but I never had this kind of problem with either XP or Vista networking. Although Win 7 is "prettier" than XP and my machines will settle in with XP Pro, Win 7, and Fedora in either a multi boot, or multi disk OS installation where I select the OS by selecting the boot disk from the BIOS at boot time.

Posted by: rdhalsteatzd   Posted on: 10/16/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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