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Story: Windows 7 v Ubuntu 9.10: an illustrated guide

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bad luck!

Hi there,

That is a very strange comment especially if you know, as I expect you do that vista and win 7 for the most part use the same dreivers.

Winvista had a problem because the driver model and the ui changed while they hadn't optimised the code so it was also slow.

Win 7 corrects most of the issues, but to be fair so did drivers that have been released over the years vista has been out and the service packs from ms.

Vista is wuite a solid os now, yes, win7 is better. I choose not to use either, I have kubuntu on my home laptop.

Win xp will be supported by ms pledge until 2014 for corporates. It isa unlikely that the ftse100 company I work for will upgrade from xp anytime soon due to the amount of vista incompatible software, and no, xp compat mode is not a solution. Two os's to patch and antivirus, even more load on our underpowered pcs. Its just not workable. It'll take years to upgrade the majority of software to win7 compatible and in this current climate its just not on our radar to go and rieimplement vista compatible software, especially as some is in-house and others are huge implementation projects that take years, like oracle financials.

Win 7 is fixed cause thr drivers for most stuff has been produced for vista.

R

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