Given Microsoft’s rocky past with installs, I expected a lot of negative responses to yesterday’s question about your Windows 7 experience. However, over 80 per cent of you encountered little or no problems with your install.
In fact, 67 per cent of respondents claimed that their install experience was “excellent”. After skimming over some of your comments I was truly surprised at how many times I came across words like “great” and “flawless”. I also noticed that the majority of issues people were having stemmed from hardware manufacturers that have been slow to update drivers — not Microsoft.
All-in-all, this is a very encouraging sign — Microsoft really seems to have their shit together on this one. Still, if you are having problems, make sure to consult our Windows 7 coverage for some tips and tricks.
matt
October 28, 2009 at 9:59 AM
” I also noticed that the majority of issues people were having stemmed from hardware manufacturers that have been slow to update drivers”
I think you will find that this was the major problem with the vista launch as well. except people would rather blame microsoft then, and it was worse because it was a completely new system. most vista drivers work with little modification for windows 7
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October 28, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Why did you expect a lot of negative responses?
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October 29, 2009 at 9:15 AM
The driver issues are far less of a problem than they were in Vista. I imaged a laptop with Vista when it and the OS were reasonbly new, 27 devices had no drivers after the OS installed and had run updates. This time around, another newish laptop and installing Windows 7 resulted in 5 devices with no drivers but were then installed with updates. The only driver I manually installed was the nVidia drivers so I would get all the tools along with the driver set.
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