Most users happy with Windows 7

At least it is better than Vista

Users of Microsoft's Windows 7 are generally "very satisfied" with the new operating system.

A report from Forrester Research said that most of the great unwashed know the product is there if they want it. Writing in its blog Forrester said a "strong majority" of US consumers knew about Windows 7 by the end of 2009. Microsoft released the operating system in October to favourable reviews and while punters still love Windows XP, Forrester said, particularly for their notebooks.

However what Forrester has noticed is that people have been buying the Operating system without splashing out on new PC. Forty-three percent of Windows 7 early adopters bought an upgrade, according to Forrester. Another 45 percent got it on a new computer. It was the first time that upgrade purchasing matched replacement-cycle purchasing among OS owners, the firm said.

This is because Windows 7 was a thinner client program than was Windows Vista, meaning that it works well on older hardware configurations.
In the past, OSes were designed with Moore's Law as an underlying assumption – that is, that newer PC hardware would be significantly faster and more powerful than the previous generation's hardware.


Fudzilla - Most users happy with Windows 7

Well judging by most of the happy folk we have in this forum I'd say the above was a reasonable statement to make..

At least it is better than Vista

Lol, most users happy with 7, reason: at least it is better than vista.

It's much more stable than XP too. I don't have near as many problems with W7 as I did with XP or Vista. I could never go back to XP now.

I returned to Vista for the following reasons why 7 home/ulti (32/64) is failing on me:

1) floppy drive dysfunctional (AMD 770 chipset)
2) bad compatibility with my wife's older designer software (database related)
3) irregular AHCI performance - wildly floating performance ( 2MB/s - 90MB/s) depending on what/where you copy
4) Windows Explorer - the two panes are no longer connected to each other

Frankly, 7 is a joke in terms of software backward compatibility (with Vista) and overall slower than Vista. It's just not good enough to have older software working but the slowdown is unacceptable. The 7 UI looks cheap compared to Vista even it is nearly the same layout.

Tried both 32/64 bit versions and always the same problems.

who the hell still uses floppy discs buy a usb memory stick not only are they faster they hold a heck of a lot more data and unless the computer was made 15yrs ago it'll most likely have a usb port

did you check the software manufacturers website for an update/upgrade

and file copy can be dependent upon size and type of file being copied and what the HDD being used likes the best

and as for the UI it's the same Aero used in vista

Did you make sure all the drivers were upto date

what's the exact Hardware in the PC that your attempting to use win7 x32/x64 on

OH just about forgot Windows 7 x64 ROCKS in fact if i had to go backwards in OS my personal choice would be WinXP sp3 Vista for me just sucked in the 8mths i used it as soon as win7 RC1 came out i ditched Vista it's probably gotten better since SP2 but i don't care

Meanwhile I am on 7-64 ultimate and the XP-VM cured the software trouble.
However, answering your questions:

Originally Posted by Athlonite

who the hell still uses floppy discs buy a usb memory stick not only are they faster they hold a heck of a lot more data and unless the computer was made 15yrs ago it'll most likely have a usb port

system boards are still manufactured with floppy support for a reason and windows has to support it. It's fairly known by now that some AMD chipsets crap on floppy support under 7 but still working fine under Vista (same machine)

Originally Posted by Athlonite

did you check the software manufacturers website for an update/upgrade

development stopped in 2007 (dot). For now W7 saved true XP compatibility with its XP VM a very impressive 1.13GB install just for XP but only for 7Pro or better.

Originally Posted by Athlonite

and file copy can be dependent upon size and type of file being copied and what the HDD being used likes the best

it is quite amazing copying small Documents is so slow (5MB/s) but big binaries like zipped files copy full speed (190MB/s) Another annoying example burning two sata DVDs concurrently - if you burn faster than 4x speed both device buffers are running dry slowing down the whole process due to "waiting for buffers to recover". However I suspect a 770 chipset issue, not Win7!

Originally Posted by Athlonite

and as for the UI it's the same Aero used in vista

yes, but deeper

Originally Posted by Athlonite

Did you make sure all the drivers were upto date

All AMD drivers are latest...

hmmm ok I never use the floppy drive on my ATI/AMD 790FX/SB600 board i always turn it off in the bios

have you tried turning off AHCI and just running in SATA IDE mode as i remember a thread i read a while ago that was about SATA DVD burners having issues with AHCI mode but when running in SATA IDE mode they were fine

maybe find another newer program that does the same thing as the old one.. XP mode is a good thing and 1.13GB isn't very big

Look, I am not going to compromise to make the floppy work in 7 - I boot into Vista when I need it

Newer program? - there simply is nothing. for some unknown reasons most major developers in this branch stopped in 2007. I guess most of them have been kinda copycats. Consequentially they had to stop too.

I still find it odd though Agent Data that the floppy won't work in 7 but is fine in vista. As you well know it's one of the oldest technologies still being used by some of us and should work no problem. Tell me, did you upgrade from vista or do a clean install? Apologies if this has been asked already.