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    Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales in 2007)

    DirectX 11 Now Available For Windows Vista

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    11/21/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales in 2007)
    It could also mean that Vista was such utter shit that even non-nerds are buying 7 to install on their current hardware just to get away from it. :)
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    11/21/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales in 2007)
    Coincidentally, Internet Explorer 6's user share took a dramatic hit since Windows 7's release, yet Internet Explorer 8 didn't see that huge an increase.

    Instead, it looks like users were split between Firefox and Chrome for their new browser of choice.

    Mazel tov, nerds: we're becoming the majority.
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    11/21/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales in 2007)
    Just installed Windows 7 over my existing Vista installation (just got my copy from Lenovo today). Went pretty smoothly, and I'm glad to be back to 7.
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    11/21/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales in 2007)
    I stopped reading at "Joe Sixpack".
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    Image of dagamer34 dagamer34
    11/21/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales in 2007)
    It's not consumer products that really matter that much, but business adoption where Microsoft will see real gains. Too bad the old mantra of "wait for SP1" is still around.
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    Image of KefkaticFanatic KefkaticFanatic
    10/29/09

    In reply to DirectX 11 Now Available For Windows Vista
    Aren't there only like 2 cards available that use DX11? #directx11
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    10/29/09

    In reply to DirectX 11 Now Available For Windows Vista
    I never did understand any of this directx crap. Oh well. #directx11
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    10/29/09

    @bagellord: Although DX11 for programmers is a good and moderate thing, for everyone else the best way to think of DirectX is look at earlier versions where big differences were had. DirectX 6-7 were comparable to say N64 and Dreamcast, better but it's a close analogy, and DirectX 9-10 is comparable to Ps2/Wii/Xbox360/PS3.

    DirectX 9 wasn't impressive at the start and everyone scoffed at it but eventually it became what gaming is today. So, if DirectX 11+ gets a good boost from Win 7 and the next phase of Console hardware, you'll have a decent leap there as well.

    It's all about effects now. Polygons won't get fancier by much until 2-3 generations from now as they do a good enough job at fleshing out things and it's mainly textures and effects that bring everything to life. #directx11
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    10/29/09

    @masshuum: Sounds interesting. #directx11
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    Image of k2snowboards88 k2snowboards88
    10/29/09

    In reply to DirectX 11 Now Available For Windows Vista
    Just because one game, or even several games don't look much different in their dx11 and dx10 modes, it doesn't mean that the potential isn't there and that games won't take advantage of it. dx11 isn't magic and it doesn't just enchant games into better graphics #directx11
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    10/29/09

    @k2snowboards88: If computers still can't beat magic, what's the point? #directx11
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    10/23/09

    In reply to Ballmer Optimistic About Win 7, But Says Vista Is "Very Popular"
    I still use XP and my next PC will likely be Win7. I'm avoiding Vista like the red headed stepchild it is. #steveballmer
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    10/23/09

    In reply to Ballmer Optimistic About Win 7, But Says Vista Is "Very Popular"
    Bloodletting was also "very popular" but that doesn't make it better than penicillin. #steveballmer
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Ballmer Optimistic About Win 7, But Says Vista Is "Very Popular"
    The bad rep that Vista gets is a result of it having issues at launch and it's competitors capitalising on that via well done advertising campaigns. Vista is a stable and fine OS but that doesn't matter because the justified negative reception fueled by major competitors has stuck in the mind of the consumers and no matter what Microsoft does to "fix" Vista, it will not change the general consumer attitude toward the product.

    To their credit, Microsoft fixed Vista, but there was no way they were going to overcome the ingrained consumer negativity toward the product.

    Ironically, the incredibly poor reception that Vista has endured will likely make 7 seem incredible, by comparison, and give it an amazing consumer reception. Rather than living up to expectations that were blown out of proportion, it will be compared to an OS that is thought to be almost totally non-functional, even though in fact that is not the case. #steveballmer
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    10/23/09

    @zdevex: Well said. It's just too bad they didn't implement the changes in Aero to Vista, but by that time computers had caught up.

    What Ballmer said is true, Vista was extremely popular; like it or not. #steveballmer
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Ballmer Optimistic About Win 7, But Says Vista Is "Very Popular"
    popular??? popular??popular is the Pamela Anderson porn vid....he´s he on drugs ??? did he smoke the peace pipe with you gizmo guys.
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    UnderLoK promoted this comment Edited by quim barreiros at 10/22/09 10:54 PM quim barreiros was starred quim barreiros was unstarred
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    10/23/09

    @quim barreiros: Maybe if you got out of the Apple bubble you might notice that a slew of people ran/run Vista.

    If you only get your news from Giz or Mac Rumors you might have missed it. #steveballmer
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    Image of dagamer34 dagamer34
    10/22/09

    In reply to Ballmer Optimistic About Win 7, But Says Vista Is "Very Popular"
    Since Windows 7 has finally shipped, you need to ask Bill what he wanted to say... :) #steveballmer
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    Image of karmaghost karmaghost
    10/22/09

    In reply to Ballmer Optimistic About Win 7, But Says Vista Is "Very Popular"
    make no mistake; MS f*cked up with Vista, but it's much, much better and more stable that it once was. Still, you know what they say about first impressions... #steveballmer
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    10/22/09

    @karmaghost: YEah, microsoft sure fucked up with ATI and nvidia releasing those terrible drivers. #steveballmer
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    10/22/09

    @Thee Sea: They did, because a hundred million or more end users don't care who made the drivers, they care that this thing "Vista" in front of them is crashing. MS needed to make sure that ATI and NVidia were ready, and in the worst case scenario get out ahead of the problem and make sure the public knew who they had to put pressure on. They sat back like lumps, let the problem exist and let themselves take the blame for it.
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    10/22/09

    @Thee Sea:
    Hey, ATI had far less crashes than Nvidia in terms of drivers. #steveballmer
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    10/22/09

    @roflwaffles is Buzz Lightyear: And yet, sadly, their drivers are just as reliable now as they were then. #steveballmer
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    10/22/09

    @BaldwinPeriphetes: That's just stupid. Microsoft can not delay the release of a major operating system update because two separate entities do not have their shit together. It is on ATI and nvidia to ensure quality control of their product, not Microsoft. Both companies said that they had the situation under control when they clearly didn't. #steveballmer
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    10/22/09

    @Thee Sea: I was under the impression that having a comment "promoted" meant that the post was good and beneficial. I guess I didn't really think about the ways that "star" commentors could abuse promotions to get their voices heard on posts they disagreed with. #steveballmer
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    10/22/09

    @karmaghost: You do realise that a comment is automatically promoted when it is replied to by a starred commenter, right? #steveballmer
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    Image of demetriosaivazis demetriosaivazis
    10/22/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Review: You Can Quit Complaining Now
    It seems to me that the only thing going on here is complaining. No one is ever happy with any OS. Im very satisfied with 7, vista, and XP. It seems every OS gets better and better. There is many different features in both that are great. Its hard to sell a product that 100% people are going to like and want it to function to their like's. Love it for what it is, Not what you want them to do just for you. Remember they are creating a OS for the world not for just joe smoe in moms basement who is mad because the view in the control panel is not to his/her standards.
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