What will Windows 7 offer that will be worth the purchase?

Here is something I read about it the other day. And here is something that just came actually. I just looked at the pics lol.

I think it will offer more reasons why Mac is better.

i can’t wait for the upcoming macworld, not because of an iphone bump or something, no, but because i guess they will announce the feature set on Snow Leopard and all the guys in Redmond will go like “what ? how are we going to compete with that, we’ve got to rewrite everything to make it come close to being a look a like”...that’s why vista took so long

Hells yeah! I’m using the beta right now, and it so so good that we can put the whole vista thing behind us. I ha it run on an 8 year old pc, and it still ran great! It’s even more amazing on my brand new computer.

Ithought the Q was “Will windows 7 be worth the purchase?

My answer is still the same, and my reasoning is that it will be a smooth running, much more polished beautiful OS. You can run it on nearly any modern hardware and are not forced to pay an obscene amount for the machine or OS. I can’t wait for the official release.

This article does a good job summarizing what to look forward to in Windows 7.

The Betta fish! It would be cool if it will swim around the desktop.

poor Eambos, he always takes Windows disses so personally…

I think it will be like Vista, which was a great step forward though with many problems – hopefully this time it’ll be more successful and less problematic. Plus, you know, it goes well with my name!

I have my doubts… After all, Windows 7 is running on the same kernel as Windows Vista.

Nothing. Try Ubuntu instead: www.ubuntu.com

I’ve never been much of a Windows-type but I used it now for 2 months on an old computer and this is my experience.

- Things are less cluttered, it’s not yet an OSX desktop but the large amount of tiny icons in the systemtray is more organized now for example.
– It looks like they finished the Vista interface, not my favorite but it’s more polished now.
– It’s more aimed at the future with touch support, ssd features and an interface for bigger displays.
– The speed and stability of the RC is incredible, I’m running Windows 7 on a PC that was originally sold with Windows 2000 and had a graphics card from that same year. XP could just run on it, vista was VERY slow and aero didn’t work BUT Win 7 runs suprosingly smootly and the aero interface just works without lagging.
– It handles hardware better, you know vista could search the internet for missing drivers but 9/10 times it didn’t find a thing? Now it found drivers for a secondhand hungarian network pci card and even driver updates show up in Windows update. It makes shure you run stable drivers with the least amout of bugs.
– The annoying things about Vista are now minimized. The UAC (messages that pop-up for alowing to run software) now have a slider to set how much it wil show up (standard is a very few times).
– I can run 3D games on that old machine that I never could.. Windows 7 gets less in the way when I try to use my hardware to the max.
– Windows 7 is more energy efficient.

@RandomMrAdam Win7 AND Vista have the same kernel as Windows 2000/NT/XP. I’m not going to idolize Windows now, it still sucks to rely on but Windows 7 IS the version that should have been released after XP.. Vista was a major fail in the middle!

See for yourself if you want to pay for it. Till march 2010, use this version for free.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx

It may be an RC but it gets weekly security updates and such, it can be used as default OS. Every Vista driver works with Win7 too.