No Wallpaper Swapping in Win 7 SE

[Guest]

I'm late to this and I haven't read all the comments, but look: the price point for premium doesn't change whether SE exists or not. In this sense, you are not FORCED to pay extra for additional features. You think if SE didn't exist Premium would cost as much as SE? Pleez.

 

[Dave_69]

tayb, I think it's been a while since you tried Linux, especially Ubuntu. I have a very complex PC setup, with RAID drives and all, and Ubuntu was up and running in 20 minutes - everything worked right off the cuff - all peripherals, networking, everything. And this doing multi-booting with XP and Vista on other partitions. You are right about gaming, which Linux/WINE stinks at, but aside from that, I've had zero problems with it. I've actually spent more time tweaking Windows than I have ever spent tweaking Linux, but I'll stop there before this thread takes a wild turn into the realms of argumentation we've all heard/read before...

 

[lunaticstriker]

Really I don't see the trouble with Microsoft Blocking the ability to switch wallpapers or themes, give it enough time and a small reg edit will be available for the user to change this.

It can be annoying to bother about the different versions of Windows however if we didn’t have choice everyone would be complaining about spending X amount of cash for something they didn't want; this merely caters to that.

Being unable to change a wallpaper doesn’t seem too bad so long as they provide the ability to go to a flat color (Since most likely the resolution on the default wall will be terrible) its a far better restriction over having only three applications open and for some people it could be a godsend since it would cut down on the less intelligent people from catching a virus trying to get some thrifty theme or awesome screensaver.

Also the article clearly says consumers and OEM companies and partners btw.

 

[razor512]

no one is going to buy that version of windows 7, the whole thing will be a failure due to their pricing

microsoft has said in the past that they plan to release a new OS more often, with these prices, it is a bad move, and adding stupid limitations like this is even more stupid. windows xp home used to cost $100, if windows 7 starter is also $100 then that means your paying more and getting less features than windows xp home

i want everyone to do this

list things that the average user can do in windows 7 that they cant do in windows xp (try not to include weird eye candy effects, (i want actual work)

a upgrade is suppose to increase performance (something windows vista and windows 7 failed to do, due to lower benchmarks )

a upgrade is suppose to increase functionality, (for a similar price range, both windows vista and windows 7 failed to do that also unless you pay a huge price premium and then you get some extra features that only like 1% of computer users will get any use from)

 

[razor512]

[citation][nom]harry potter[/nom]I'm late to this and I haven't read all the comments, but look: the price point for premium doesn't change whether SE exists or not. In this sense, you are not FORCED to pay extra for additional features. You think if SE didn't exist Premium would cost as much as SE? Pleez.[/citation]

not to mention that many linux fanboys are not very helpful, you want to get a app or install it, they keep referring you to the package manager or the add/remove crap

where probably only 0.0001% of the linux apps are available

the rest are annoying tar.gz files that require a crap load of command line work to get running

and the install instructions for many don't work, they will list the stops, and if you copy and paste each command into the terminal window 1 by 1, you generally get to a point where 1 of the lines only gives you a error and you cant get the app running

compared to windows, linux is too command line heavy and this is why windows is more popular

an average user can go 20 years and never see a command line window and still run everything they need (cant say the same for linux)


theres another problem, it doesn't make sense to many people use to windows
things they can do in 1 or 2 clicks in windows will generally require multiple clicks and extensive command line use to do the same thing

and why cant they add support for batch files for ubuntu so if a idiot decided to release their app in a .tar.gz instead of a .deb, at least they can release the tar.gz crap with a batch file that will do all of the annoying command line stuff for you

PS if anyone from toms hardware reads this, I ask that you please build a giant robot that slaps the web designer across the face every time someone posts a comment until they decide to add a edit function to the comments page



also the people at microsoft need to learn what the word screen space means. the UI of a OS should be a minimal design which provides optimal space for the work being done, the windows 7 UI takes up most of the screen, it is a waste of screen space because the same info on the new UI can fit in the windows classic UI

another problem, they seem to hate tabs, all of the tabbed windows in xp were broken up into their own windows in vista and windows 7 so it takes more work to get to the same stuff

microsoft could have stuck with windows xp if they wanted, people buy new systems and build new systems so frequently that the OS are in constant demand