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I've got the chance to play with Windows 7 while teaching my friend how to use it. Looks like an improved version of Vista to me. I like Vista just fine so that's not a negative comment. I like it, but, to me, XP is still the best MS has done.
I still don't understand why folks like XP better than 2000. XP is just a bloated version of 2000.
Anyways, Vista/7 's biggest improvement over 5.x was 64-bit, better driver model, much improved directX, and aggressive fetching.
Other little things I like are hybrid sleep, improved tcp/ip stack, multiple instances of libraries in memory.
Wrong, XP is a REFINED version of 2000, just as 7 is a refined version of Vista. I would bet if Microsoft had released Neptune (consumer version of 2000) to the consumer market, there would have been many complaints that their hardware/software wasn't working with it, similar to the complaints that plagued Vista. XP helped correct some of these issues.
Wrong, XP is a REFINED version of 2000, just as 7 is a refined version of Vista. I would bet if Microsoft had released Neptune (consumer version of 2000) to the consumer market, there would have been many complaints that their hardware/software wasn't working with it, similar to the complaints that plagued Vista. XP helped correct some of these issues.
It's not wrong. The term "refinement" is so vague. Not all refinement is good. You might like bloat and call it refinement... but the techies weren't fooled by this .1 version number change. Most of the changes were just adding crap and bloat and an increment of the version number by a tenth. Sure, there were a few improvements such as improved PnP, IE 6 and a few other minor thing. But it had much more bloat like the new UI (which could be disabled) and came with all this crap like the image viewer and the newer version of windows media player (thank god they included the classic version in the Windows folder).
2000 wouldn't have had the same issue as Vista because it was the same driver model as previous versions. There was good driver support from day one. Vista had a new driver model that needed new drivers written for it. This was carried over to 7, but by then hardware manufacturers had enough time to release proper drivers.
2000 wouldn't have had the same issue as Vista because it was the same driver model as previous versions. There was good driver support from day one. Vista had a new driver model that needed new drivers written for it. This was carried over to 7, but by then hardware manufacturers had enough time to release proper drivers.
That is definitely wrong. 2000's driver model was NOT the same as 98. 98 was DOS-based, while 2000 was NT based, so it naturally would have a different driver model. While 2000 was great for the business market as a natural evolution of NT, it wasn't quite ready for the consumer market at the time, which is why Microsoft cancelled Neptune and released Windows Me as a stopgap until XP was released.
That is definitely wrong. 2000's driver model was NOT the same as 98. 98 was DOS-based, while 2000 was NT based, so it naturally would have a different driver model. While 2000 was great for the business market as a natural evolution of NT, it wasn't quite ready for the consumer market at the time, which is why Microsoft cancelled Neptune and released Windows Me as a stopgap until XP was released.
You're definitely wrong in thinking that DOS/9x/Windows 4.x is the previous version of Windows 2000. Infact, NT 4 was the previous version of 2000. It carried the driver model from the previous version of NT.
Windows 2000 is NT 5.0. So naturally when I said previous version, I was referring to NT 4. You are mistaken with thinking that the previous version was DOS/9x/Windows 4.x.
You're definitely wrong in thinking that DOS/9x is the previous version of Windows 2000. Infact, NT 4 was the previous version of 2000. It carried the driver model from the previous version of NT.
Which is why it was popular for the business market. However, there was indeed hardware that worked for 98 but not NT/2000. Had Microsoft released Neptune, consumers upgrading from 98 to it would have had to upgrade some of their hardware to make it work.
Also, many games were written to run under 9x, but not NT/2000. XP helped alleviate this issue a bit.
Which is why it was popular for the business market. However, there was indeed hardware that worked for 98 but not NT/2000. Had Microsoft released Neptune, consumers upgrading from 98 to it would have had to upgrade some of their hardware to make it work.
Also, many games were written to run under 9x, but not NT/2000. XP helped alleviate this issue a bit.
I doubt there has ever been much of a market for game support in business operating systems.
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