If geeks love it, we're on it

37 Comments:

1. Kwitko
   4 Dec '08, 4:23 pm

   I'd much prefer the Google logo strangling the MS logo, but that's just me.
2. mas0n
   4 Dec '08, 5:00 pm

   I reboot once per month, so whatever. It's shiny.
3. Buddy J
   4 Dec '08, 5:57 pm

   Video is gone?
4. RADA
   4 Dec '08, 6:08 pm

   Yup, no video here....

   Quoting Buddy J

   Video is gone?
5. Thrax
   4 Dec '08, 6:26 pm

   Wow, they pulled it down.
6. Thrax
   4 Dec '08, 7:06 pm

   Updated with a YouTube source!
7. _k_
   4 Dec '08, 7:31 pm

   No, needs more swords and ninjas.......is windows trying to "ice" out.
8. Zuntar
   4 Dec '08, 9:10 pm

   Quoting Kwitko

   I'd much prefer the Google logo strangling the MS logo, but that's just me.

   Quoting mas0n

   I reboot once per month, so whatever. It's shiny.
9. Your Friendly Neighborhood Computer Guy
   4 Dec '08, 9:30 pm

   I'd prefer no animation and a fast boot time.
10. DrLiam
    4 Dec '08, 9:36 pm

    Final Fantasy orbs!? Ugh, Real original.
11. Tim
    5 Dec '08, 1:03 pm

    No need for any fancy animation BS, just make it start quickly and work right.
12. Thrax
    5 Dec '08, 1:26 pm

    Let's be fair about this: this is a computational task that, by all appearances, looks as though it's handled by the GPU. Getting rid of the logo wouldn't make Windows 7 load any faster, because that part of the boot sequence is all about disk I/O.
13. shwaip
    5 Dec '08, 3:59 pm

    I wasn't sure before, but now I'm _totally_ getting Windows 7.
14. Sonorous
    5 Dec '08, 7:19 pm

    I think it looks clean, and polished. A definite step up from previous versions of windows. I just hope they are not trying to pull the wool over our eyes again like they did with Vista.
15. NiGHTS
    5 Dec '08, 7:24 pm

    Color me surprised, a new take on a logo from MS has the internet bent out of shape.
16. Snarkasm
    5 Dec '08, 7:27 pm

    Oh for crap's sake. What wool was pulled over your eyes, Sono?
17. shwaip
    5 Dec '08, 7:39 pm

    It was definitely alpaca-based.
18. Sonorous
    5 Dec '08, 8:20 pm

    Well they show you this flashy OS that LOOKS better, but ends up being the same, if not worse. I know a lot of inexperienced computer users that got Vista just because it looked good. Now maybe it's their own fault, but you can't tell me that MS didn't think of that as well.
19. Snarkasm
    5 Dec '08, 8:39 pm

    I'm curious what you'd consider worse in Vista than in XP, aside from some differences in some transfer rates?
20. Thrax
    5 Dec '08, 8:48 pm

    I mean, we could start with benchmarks...
21. primesuspect
    5 Dec '08, 9:02 pm

    Besides hard numbers, I could say anecdotally that playing TF2 on vista was a nightmare of inexplicable pauses while the drive constantly accessed for 30-60 second spans and the game froze, rendering it unplayable while Vista did "whatever", and the problem completely went away when I went back to XP....

    Or we could just stick to benchmarks
22. NiGHTS
    5 Dec '08, 9:07 pm

    I never had any problems running TF2 on Vista, FWIW.
23. Snarkasm
    5 Dec '08, 9:18 pm

    Nor I.

    We can argue the "slower on the same hardware" argument every day for eternity, but that's the way it's been with damn near all operating system improvements since they started. I find more than enough redeeming qualities in Vista (improved security, improved graphics subsystem, improved resource management in many areas, etc) to completely boggle me with the sheer number of "upgrade to XP" slogans I've seen over the last few years.

    But hell, I've been blowing this horn for a while, and nobody's listened to me yet. I just sincerely do not believe that anything in Vista so much worse than XP that they're deserving of being called deceivers. That's hyperbole of the highest quality.

    *Snark realizes this makes him look like a fanboy, but will kill anybody who says so...
24. Thrax
    5 Dec '08, 9:29 pm

    If nobody has listened to you yet, doesn't that give you pause?
25. Snarkasm
    5 Dec '08, 10:32 pm

    Yes, because being believed is certainly the infallible measure of certitude.
26. jared
    5 Dec '08, 10:49 pm

    If Satan and Amy Winehouse had a baby, I'd bet it would be like Vista.
27. Sonorous
    5 Dec '08, 11:22 pm

    I run windows Vista, and I have no plans to go back to XP. All I was saying, is that Vista looked better than it ran when it was released. One could argue that XP did the same thing over windows 2000. I think that the new boot screen is nice looking, and appealing, but I'm not going to start making calls on the OS until I see more than a little tinsel and glowing orbs.
28. Snarkasm
    5 Dec '08, 11:34 pm

    Sounds perfect to me.
29. Leonardo
    6 Dec '08, 9:35 am

    ...a little tinsel and glowing orbs

    Ah, so you've met my former girlfriend!
30. -tk
    6 Dec '08, 3:16 pm

    On a scale of 0 to 1, I give this a 0.
31. Sonorous
    6 Dec '08, 7:55 pm

    Quoting Leonardo

    Ah, so you've met my former girlfriend!

    LMAO.
32. Tim
    8 Dec '08, 12:52 am

    7 may or may not have as much FAIL in it as Vista did, but it won't be as good as XP is.
33. Snarkasm
    8 Dec '08, 3:51 am

    You really need to start having some truth, fact, or even actual information of any kind behind what you say, Tim.... it really just makes you sound like a fanboy when you say that there's no way an operating system that ISN'T EVEN OUT YET couldn't possibly be better than the last-generation OS.

    Edited by Leonardo
34. Leonardo
    8 Dec '08, 4:08 am

    Take it easy, OK?
35. Snarkasm
    8 Dec '08, 4:11 am

    I got the message. Apologies.
36. bullzisnipr
    8 Dec '08, 5:00 am

    Fancy, I won't see it too much though..
37. FireRx
    11 Dec '08, 5:04 pm

    Trust me, when i say, It's far better than XP, and Vista combined. writing this from build 6956 right now. an it's HOT!

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