Originally by: Kara Mitsui

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Meh, all this Vista hate is just hype, if you had actually tried it for a while and decided you didn't like it, then fine. I suspect most people who diss it, haven't.

I installed Vista as soon as I could get a copy, and have been running Windows 7 since the free beta was announced, and the differences aren't that great. Certainly not enough for people to say 'Vista as crap but Windows 7 is great', that's just nonsense.

I'm no MS fanboy but Vista was so much better than XP in so many ways it's just sad that people let themselves be brainwashed into using a 6-year-old OS when newer, better stuff is available.

And, er, you don't *have* to pay the earth for it, if you know where to look.

The only people I've seen with genuine problems with Vista were running some old or weird hardware configurations. I can understand people not wanting to upgrade hardware just to run Vista, but if that's the case, say 'Vista doesn't work with xxx and yyy hardware' instead of just slamming it.

Anyway, I run multiple eve clients on Windows 7 without any problems, I actually have a 128gb SSD as my boot drive, and Eve is installed on it as well. It screams along.

I also have two vid cards installed, a 9800gt and an 8800gt, each running a separate monitor, and Eve runs fine on both in windowed mode. I can't imagine you'd have any problems at all.

The new taskbar thing in Windows 7 is very nice. It's a bit of a OSX dock ripoff but there's nothing wrong with copying good design. It's better than MS deciding it had to be different and being worse as a result.

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