A thought about skipping Vista

January 25th, 2009

I read Gizmodo on a regular basis, and I just came across this article noting how “Add/Remove Programs” has disappeared form the control panel. In 7 the item is in the programs section, and the user can get to the list of programs to uninstall by clicking “Uninstall a program” in the main control panel window. More over, he obviously has been using Windows XP for the three years that the release version Windows Vista has been available to consumers. (To be fair that time range should start when Vista went out into public beta since Windows 7 isn’t even released yet, but I’ll underestimate.)

Let us compare:

Windows XP Control Panel:

Windows Vista Control Panel:

Windows 7 (beta) Control Panel:

This behavior hasn’t changed in three years and this guy was caught off guard by it. Lots of people are deciding to simply skip Vista and go straight to 7, but I think that the majority of them don’t realize that Windows 7’s base code was Windows Vista, not Windows XP. The transition from Vista to 7 is pretty smooth, but I think those who stayed with XP will be in for some growing pains as they upgrade. Just a thought.

Rants
Control Panel, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
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2 comments

Oscar Mayer posted on January 26, 2009:

I just open the control panel and search “uni” and it’s the first result. XD
Mavtak posted on January 26, 2009:

That’s the Vista (and 7) way of doing things. XP users don’t have that workflow.

Also, control panel results now show up in the start menu. Happy days!