Wall Street Journal: Even in Test Form, Windows 7 Leaves Vista in the Dust

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13 pointsjseliger5 comments

Compatibility with hardware and software, which was a problem in Vista, seems far better in Windows 7 -- even in the beta. I tried a wide variety of hardware, including printers, Web cams, external hard disks and cameras, and nearly all worked fine.

I'm not sure I understand how this could be true. Unless he means "Compatibility with Windows 7 seems far better than Vista at its release." I mean, I doubt hardware manufacturers are providing better support for 7 in beta than they are for Vista, and honestly, I haven't run into any compatibility issues with Vista since I started using it.

'which was a problem in Vista'

And since most of those problems have been resolved and Windows 7 is using the Vista driver model, most people shouldn't have issues with drivers if they weren't having issues with Vista.

Nothing to see here, move along.

Does anyone else find it amusing that the screen shot provided is on Parallels for the Macintosh? It would be easy to use an image editor to crop out the fact that it was being tested in a virtual machine.

Does it matter whether they are testing it in a VM or a "real machine"?

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