Everyone else here says nothing but positive things, and you're the one naysayer. You should download Microsoft Security Essentials. It's free and works great. Windows leaves it up to you to protect your computer, which is actually a good thing. Don't blame the OS because you visit the scummy underbelly of the internet and pick up every virus known to man.

windows 7 is great

if it wasn't for my crappy hard drive I'd love it more. I've been on it since it was a beta and it will take a lot of kicking and screaming to make me change to XP or even Vista, which I have on the laptop, and am itching to upgrade!

Great.. what took you so long to upgrade?

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Like it. I was primarily a windows user for the past 20 years, but Vista just fuckin' sucked so bad that I moved to Mac. I liked the Mac, but clients mostly use windows apps and my biz's networking stuff is MS, so it just became a hassle so I switched back to Windows (plus, Mac hardware service fucking sucks like no other, I mean really, pay a $1,700 "flat fee" to fix a minor part in my computer????!!).

Only downside is Outlook crashes a ton which is annoying as hell.

We'll yes OLD shit is not going to work on a new OS since that software wasn't designed for it. I was so angry when my colecovison games wouldn't work on my XBOX 360. I was like WTF I paid money for these. Then when my VHS tapes wouldn't work on my blu-ray player. Oh man. Then I really got frustrated when I couldn't find how to play my music cassette collection on a MP3 player.

YOU suck. Yes macs don't allow viruses. You believe that shit. Security through obscurity is not security at all.

first day use - if you get tired of constant bombardment of alert and confirmation popups, its easily fixed:

in control panel, goto User Accounts, click Change user control settings and set to to Never notify.

that's the only feature that left instant bad impression for me while trying out vista or win7 for the first time

I'am a mac user but over the weekend I had to buy a PC with W7 for my biz and the only problem I have is that W7 doesn't recognize my wireless network.

Maybe I have to upload new firmware for my modem but I don't know.

Any W7 users here had that problem?

Fitty 1st days :Graucho

The last known virus for Mac was years ago and you had to open it, give it permission to install and then run it. Meaning you had to be really dumb to get it. So you are saying you have found a new Mac virus? Please share it with us all, I'll be waiting.

link or your gay.

I'm sure they have been. are the more for windows? Of course. Only a moron would waste his time writting a virus for 5% of computers. I wish Macs would be half the PC market then all you Apple nut jobs would see how insecure your system is.

depends on what equipment you are running your network on. And yes If you're going form mac to PC I'm pretty sure a firmware upgrade would be required.

I will use XP as long as I can :)

Windows 7 is very good, very stable and it looks pretty.

It works really well.

Just make sure you have 4+ gigs of ram and are using the 64bit version.

and install classic shell and remove all the library crap and... hell, i even used a resource editor to change the system icons back to those used by windows xp :)

Windows XP Pro X64 is the best :)

I reboot my windows XP Pro X64 boxes once or twice a year.

That's funny. You do realize that according to a study by sohpos you have a higher chance of getting infected by visiting an official government site than by visiting some obscure warez site, right?

Exactly. NT 5.2 is the best OS which was released by Microsoft for all the time.

As about all these Vista/Windows 7 lovers, no one of them can say why exactly NT 6.0/6.1 (Vista/Windows 7) is better than NT 5.2.

have you tried running scanpst.exe ? it will repair corrupt pst files.

Been using it for ages now love it no complaints here at all....

Indeed, NT5.2 is rock solid... almost no exploits are targeting it... no crappy, useless eye candy... perfect OS.

I have win7 and office 10 on all four machines here in the office. It rocks.

Vista - was an utter resource hog. My Vista machines had a noticeable improvement once I put 7 on them as well.

Not a bad OS overall from MS.

So far, I don't hate it. I like the little things like being able to move around the programs in the task bar. By this time with Vista I knew I hated it and wanted to go back. So, that has to mean this is better than that.