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Perhaps, but there we so many technological changes underneath that I dunno if that'd ring completely true. Either way, I'd say the NT product evolved a lot more between XP/Vista than it did between Vista/7.

Win 7 is most certainly a well honed Vista.

I thought it was quite obvious tbh. Although Microsoft's naming scheme is still completely baffling, it's very apparent this is basically Windows Vista refined and worked on. Same as XP was basically 2000 with extras (and to an extent; XP SP2 was 2000+ if you want to count that as a different OS...

Give it time, there's a long way to go yet before the finished product. However, I'm glad if it doesn't deviate too much from the direction they were going in with Windows 7 as they did a damn good job on it. Be a bit silly to make it completely different.

Here's my Start Menu. No hunting around and everything how I want it. To shut down is just a couple of mouse clicks. Anything launched easily and quickly. However, there is a registry tweak to disable the Metro UI, which also brings about the usual Start Menu. As long as this remains in...

A closed mentality? Why should I be 'open minded' about a new feature that is making me do extra clicks and such just to do what I could do in a couple of clicks on the old start menu? The tiles do absolutely nothing for me in a desktop environment. Sure for tablet users it's a great way of...

Found a spare drive to install it on. Love how responsive it feels, even though the drive is old and manages a max of 60MB/s on the outside of the disc. Not a fan of the tiles set up. Great for tablets, not for desktop. Can also see it quickly getting cluttered by applications installing all...

Giving Virtual Box a whirl for the first time (usually use VMware Workstation) and it installs and boots just fine. However, the performance isn't very good and VirtualBox additions gives an error of "can not install Windows 2000/XP/Vista files" or similar when trying to install that. Tried 7...

Bloody ISP throttling my torrents on evenings. Won't be able to get this til tomorrow.