[IronPython] [OT] IronPython on Win7 Build7100

[Tim Roberts]

On Mon, 4 May 2009 13:17:24 -0700,  Keith J. Farmer"
<kfarmer at thuban.org> wrote:
> Might I suggest:  the fact that it doesn't have "Vista" on the label?
>  
> Don't get me wrong, Win7 is a great advance over Vista -- I'm using it exclusively at home and have been since the beta, but the only differences from Vista (whch I use on my work laptop until tomorrow) that I encounter day-to-day are the superbar and the smoother processing (see Russinovich's video about detangling the scheduler that was passed down from times long forgotten).  If you can't put your finger one a reason, I suspect the reason has more to do with a (subconscious) attitude about Vista that you don't have about Win7 (and Vista had a *lot* of social baggage from the start that was never properly handled).

Well, I can't completely rule that out, although of course I want to
believe that I am immune from that kind of psychological prejudice.

There is more to it than that, however.  When I started moving my driver
work to Vista, it felt like I was doing battle against the operating
system at every turn.  It seemed to be actively interfering with the
tasks I needed to do to get my job done.  I don't have that sense with
Win 7, even though I'm running 64-bit, which has additional driver
restrictions.

For what it's worth, we had a short discussion on the OSR driver
developer's mailing list this morning, and it appears that I am not the
only curmudgeon who is having this change of heart.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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