I keep seeing reviews of Windows 7 telling me that it isn’t as bad as Vista and showing me how cutely I can shake a window and minimise all the others. Who cares? These are all completely trivial features.
What people in the real world want is an OS that won’t crash, is fast, runs all their existing applications perfectly and has drivers for all their existing peripherals.
While XP sometimes fails on the first two counts, I see nothing that makes me believe that Windows 7 will be any better. Why spend ages trying to configure “XP Compatibility Mode” – that’s what I have right now with XP.
The only persuasive reason that I’ve seen to get people to move is because support for XP will cease in April 2014. Luckily that’s some time away.
Why fork out money and pull out hair to get a product that is worse than what you’ve already got? Who is the IT industry and media trying to fool?
