@NoOneSpecific: Nothing makes up for YOU!

@FrankenPC: If you're getting daily updates for Windows, you're doing something wrong.

@sfBirdie: agreed. Google suffers from over engineering. They've got brilliant ideas. But brilliant ideas don't always translate into useful features. To paraphrase a quote from Paul Thurrott— Google tends to throw spaghetti at the wall and see if it sticks.

@s14shyam: Did you go from 32-bit Vista to 64-bit W7? That's the only explanation I can think of. Every other report I've heard is that W7 is a speedy little devil!!

@crosstip: Hey, the conspiracy theorists can have it— as long as I can have my Windows 7!! :D

@philosopher_dog: Did epic make a comeback? I thought it died a year or two ago...

@Miral007: It's all about superfetch. Vista was a bit aggressive in the amount of RAM it wanted to dedicate to pre-loading apps. Manufacturers weren't willing to put adequate RAM in their machines to accommodate. Windows 7 optimized superfetch and dialed back the aggressiveness.

@Schm1tty: Eh. I agree that Vista ended up being a great OS. But there's no arguing that it had some hiccups before SP1. Waiting 1yr or SP1 is far from an ignorant practice.

@eagles3.7: Thanks for sharing! I see more and more comments like yours— Mac owners who tried Windows 7 and ended up making it home. But then I can't say I'm at all surprised— it's a fantastic OS!

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@wjglenn: I looked for that today. Couldn't find a link to it. Plus I'll hold out to see if they remove the ads during the summer update anyway :)

@Nimelennar: Then you'll have you wait until the summer update. It will support Exchange Active Sync.

@Ryan M. Moore: The update is 'coming soon'. Sometime this summer.

@Nimelennar: Why not? Hotmail supports pop3...

All I need to dump gmail is for hotmail to get rid of the ads in the email I send. Yahoo finally did it. It's about time hotmail got on board.

@Posco Grubb: What you are talking about is overhead. Not bloat.

@Terry: In all fairness, your browser has tons of features that you don't need for creating and editing documents. So in a sense Google Docs is bogged down by bloat too.

@nolabar10der: I'm in the market for a pair of Grados. What made you spring for the SR-80s over the 60s?

Apple has been letting music slip for years. Making the same mistake Microsoft made with IE. It isn't any wonder that apps are starting to pop up that surpass Apple's Music app by leaps and bounds.

@muptup: Outlook really isn't for the average home user. I don't know many people that need the power Outlook offers outside the office.