In the past few months, I've written extensively about Windows 7, often focusing on a specific set of features or technologies. Inevitably, someone in the Talkback section says I'm dodging the most important question: Is there a single killer feature in Windows 7 that justifies an upgrade, especially for someone who is happy with Windows XP and has chosen to avoid Windows Vista?
The obvious, if oversimplified answer, is "No." For most mainstream business and home uses, there's no killer feature in Windows 7. You can rip an MP3 file, edit a Word document, browse the web, read a PDF file, and probably do just about any other common , especially common business tasks, with any hardware and any OS from the 21st Century.
Skewed and Reviewed have posted some gameplay from the retro game.
The best Souls-like not made by FromSoftware, Lies of P has now sold over three million copies since its 2023 release.
To celebrate, all members of the Round8 Studio development team will be rewarded with a two-week holiday, a bonus of 10 million KRW (~£5,400 / $7,300), and a Nintendo Switch 2.
I appreciate this way of doing business. I may even buy Lies of P now because of it. Where your money goes it's literally the only leverage we have as consumers to make a difference in an industry we all have an opinion about. Withholding it or spending it in the right places is about all we can do.
This is fire. Just like the game. I haven't gotten the dlc yet, but im really thinking about it. I just thought it ended great, I really want to see what they do with Dorothy. Will you fight the Tinman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, the Wicked Witch and Wizard of Oz? Maybe Toto's with us, that'd be fire.
For the moment there, I thought Lies of P will be ported to Switch 2. XD Anyway, congratulations to Round8 and the whole development team.
"Kity Builder is a purrfectly charming city-building sandbox game in which you create cute little cities for other cats! Developed by a team of four friends: Sambero, irx99, YerayToledano and Juan Hust, and published by Parabellum Games." Charlie @ Thumb Culture
There wasn't a reason to update to XP when it first came out, either. Windows 98 didn't suddenly stop running the same programs you used to run and there was quite a large and vocal number of people who hated it, but now look at it.
I don't think Windows 7 was intended to be anything revolutionary, it's simply evolutionary. It'll do the same things Vista and XP does, except it does them a bit better, in many cases it'll even do them faster if you have a modern machine (As opposed to Vista, which mainly did them about the same as XP if you had a modern machine - and note, I was using Vista for months before I switched to the W7 beta).
Unless you have a dire need to be on the forefront of technology, I don't think you have any REAL need to upgrade at all, but when you go out and build or buy a new machine, it'll be a very welcome addition.
Sorry don't mean to be a pessimist.
Its always newer is always better. That is exactly what microsoft wants you think because then they make money, but can I blame them? No. They are in the business of doing just that, making money.
I have been a linux user for 10 years and though I would not give the average user linux as their desktop, it gets closer and closer to being to that point. One day OS features will become stagnant to a degree and Linux or some other free os will take a huge chuck out of MS.
why dont they just release a new service pack for xp and charge for it! this is a brilliant scam since people will assume its there lovable xp and spend there money on it!
for the other post, i think your wrong, if newer is better how come they didn't just fix vista? why did they move on to windows 7
Even MS realized how badly Vista was received and how poor it's image is. So they roll out winOs 7 so they can say it's an all new singing and dancing winOs.
It's easier for them to put out what Vista should have been as winOs 7 now, than trying to rescue the Vista name...
Most of the innovations have come from Mac and Linux side. They focus too much on the looks instead of usability and yet no windows looks even nearly as good as linux small tweaking.
Windows 7 however seems to improve a lot from vista(performance vice) which is good. But the damage is already done. They really should learn from the sentence "Do not Fix whats not broke" (oslt)
I have been using ubuntu for a while now, and have seen so many neat features that really should be in every system.
But as for now, the ppl who dont want to learn new OS the windows 7 might be the most "familiar" os out there.