Thread: Windows 8 & WinPhone - how to counterstrike?
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2011-09-21 , 15:56
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Originally Posted by Hurrian View Post
How many people on TMO have run Windows 7 on a decent-spec machine in 2009 (>1GHz, 1GB RAM, =>60GB HDD, DX9 capable)?
Not in 2009 but in 2010.
I was one of the beta testers in our corporation.
On a Core Duo, 2.53GHz, 4GB mem, ~180GB HDD.
Sometimes it was still slow.


Originally Posted by Hurrian View Post
It's actually pretty good, and rarely if ever crashes.Explorer in Windows 7 was actually a huge leap forward even if nothing changed much except for the taskbar.
It may be such an impression if you were using Vista before.
But Explorer is still crashing, not so often as in Win98, but enough to make users like me very angry.

Originally Posted by Hurrian View Post
When I tried Metro on Windows 8, it was just terrible.
If you say that and if you find Windows 7 Explorer
"actually pretty good" I wonder how it will be for me.