Windows 7 User Submissions

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Summary:
No organization or individual should consider any M$ operating system other than XP 32bit or Server2003 32bit at this time.

Also, I'd like to see M$ taxed for the technological progress held back and worker productivity damage done by their company from this point forward.

Maybe the resulting revenue could be spent on Wine development.

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NO software or hardware has a legitimate NEED for Windows7 or 64bit capabilities (angry stare at Adobe CS5).

The INTERFACE is inferior to alternatives. Anyone who creates a folder in their start menu ONLY containing needed shortcuts doesn't need the menu search features - the mouse clicks required become pure instinct. Get the AutoHotKey script for KDE style window dragging, and the Aero interface is similarly deprecated.
It's also just as sleezy and stupid as anything M$ has churned out.

Windows 7 is still demonstrably SLOWER than Windows XP, even on multicore systems. That's horrifying when you consider that Server2003 is as much as 45% faster than XP under moderate load. Windows System Resource Manager (which is purposefully not available for lesser priced OSes... as if M$ cares about its customers) widens that performance gap even farther.
That's just on the subject of CPU load. Disk performance can be a major problem if superfetch/prefetch/etc are left enabled.

Of course, those extra processor cycles consume extra POWER on laptops and desktops alike. I suppose the world can die a bit more for M$'s shareholder dividends.

The whole DRIVER SIGNING requirement is unacceptable. Many freeware FOSS drivers (eg. ext2 filesystem drivers) cannot and should not have to afford $500 for a certificate. As a permanent workaround does not exist, this requirement is infuriating.
Oh wait, a workaround does exist: Linux.

The inability to run 32BIT DRIVERS on the 64bit OS was an inexcusable move. The Windows software ecosystem is one of entirely binary blobs, and in many cases older hardware (including networking and audio cards) simply becomes unusable.

Arbitrarily LIMITING 32bit memory usage was just plain evil. This was done solely to limit the burden of developing 32bit and 64bit drivers simultaneously and force consumer migration. Taking away legitimate computer functionality serves no customer-relevant purpose and is a clear-cut case of Microsoft abusing it's defacto monopoly.

WGA ACTIVATION frequently requires phone calls, even when the keys are perfectly valid and have not been used previously.

These observations are just from what I've learned trying to help unfortunate Win7 victims. Neither Microsoft nor anyone else requiring such a horrible OS could give me their software for free.

If M$ had to pay all the technical workers $1/hr for productivity lost to Windows7 they'd be bankrupt right now.