Comments on: Is “Windows 7″ Vista SP2?

By: whatsonmypc

whatsonmypc — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:36:15 +0000

Sam,

Vista Service Pack 2 is in beta and has been made available for beta testers; however, it has not been publicly released…

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/default.aspx

Thanks for visiting the blog…

Rick

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:19:42 +0000

Dude… there already is a Windows Vista SP2. It’s a traditional service pack made up of security patches, updates, etc. Windows 7, is the sum of many subtle and obvious changes that make for a vastly improved and major release.

By: whatsonmypc

whatsonmypc — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:52:38 +0000

Brad,

Thanks for the comment to keep us up to date on your install… I’m hearing quite a few people make comments about the taskbar and hopefully Microsoft will listen…

Again, Thank You…

Rick

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:31:07 +0000

Hmmm… It installed quite fast, even in a virtual machine, but I didn’t really get a feel for what it’s really like because of my ancient computer running two OSs at the same time I like the new ribbon, and the new taskbar scares me a little bit

By: whatsonmypc

whatsonmypc — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:19:56 +0000

TechPaul,

You are always welcome… Myself and the readers of this blog value your opinion on hardware and software concerns. Thanks for the “geek secret”…

Rick

By: whatsonmypc

whatsonmypc — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:18:00 +0000

Reggie,

Thanks for visiting and providing your assessment of Windows 7. I’m pretty excited about this operating system. This is only in beta, which means it will get better.

Rick

By: techpaul

techpaul — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:13:44 +0000

Rick–
Thank you for pointing your readers to my article, which is in fact part one of a series. As a Tech Support provider, I see both sides of the computing puzzle — how machines are built, how programmers develop software, .. how things work (or, are supposed to work) and how people actually use machines (or, try to use them).
I do a lot of teaching in my job; and, hopefully, in my writing as well.

If I may give away a bit of a “geek secret” to your readers — yes. Win 7 is what Vista was supposed to be… and would have been had Microsoft not had to re-tool and step back to react to a series of serious hacker exploits.
Learning curve of Vista-to-7? Zero.

By: Reggie

Reggie — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:11:28 +0000

I am one of those avid Vista haters, so I was very skeptical of Windows 7, but one of the first things I did after installing it is send a report to Microsoft using the shortcut on the desktop to compliment them on doing such a great job.

Windows 7 could be Microsoft’s best OS to date.

I’d have to say Windows 7 is running faster than any clean install of XP I’ve put on my laptop.

By: whatsonmypc

whatsonmypc — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:44:49 +0000

Brad,

Let me know what your thoughts are on Windows 7 after you get it installed…

Thanks for commenting and dropping by…

Rick

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:40:05 +0000

I’m looking forward to testing out Windows 7. In fact, it’s installing in a virtual machine now as I type It looks quite interesting…