Windows 7

[Johnsie]

I like Windows 7, but I still think Windows XP is the best OS ever. I'm not a big fan of admins burying active topics like this by putting them in recurring discussions. It makes it look like the community is being anti-competitive.

[OrangeCrate]

The Register!
Now there's a reliable source.

That's for sure. I bookmark the site just for the article titles. What a hoot.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/

Anyway, the author is freelance...

A freelance journalist since 1992, Tim Anderson specializes in programming and internet development topics. He has columns in Personal Computer World and IT Week, and also contributes regularly to The Register. He writes from time to time for other periodicals including Developer Network Journal Online, and Hardcopy.

[pwnst*r]

I like Windows 7, but I still think Windows XP is the best OS ever. Oh, and I'm not a big fan of admins burying active topics by putting them in recurring discussions.

why? this has been done to death before and winds up being a bashing thread anyway. snooze-fest.

[Johnsie]

If people were bored of it then it would die naturally, not die because it got cast into the forum that nobody goes to. Fact is that some people on this board are actually interested in this and every time we try to talk about it... It's gone because maybe one or two people don't like it. To me it's like a form of censorship.

[K.Mandla]

Recurring discussion much?

+1.

blah blah blah.

+1.

If people were bored of it then it would die naturally, not die because it got cast into the forum that nobody goes to. Fact is that some people on this board are actually interested in this and every time we try to talk about it... It's gone because maybe one or two people don't like it. To me it's like a form of censorship.

To me it's like a discussion that has recurred. And recurred and recurred and recurred ...

[pwnst*r]

If people were bored of it then it would die naturally, not die because it got cast into the forum that nobody goes to. Fact is that some people on this board are actually interested in this and every time we try to talk about it... It's gone because maybe one or two people don't like it. To me it's like a form of censorship.

nobody is interested in reading tired bashing threads. if you are, well...

[forrestcupp]

To me it's like a discussion that has recurred. And recurred and recurred and recurred ...

This is even too hackneyed for the Recurring Discussions area. They need to create another subforum so they'd have a place to move these threads to from the Recurring Discussions.

[forrestcupp]

If people were bored of it then it would die naturally, not die because it got cast into the forum that nobody goes to. Fact is that some people on this board are actually interested in this and every time we try to talk about it... It's gone because maybe one or two people don't like it. To me it's like a form of censorship.

They're not "gone". They're in the Recurring Discussions area. You can still participate in those threads; you just can't create a new thread in that area.

[OrangeCrate]

+1.
To me it's like a discussion that has recurred. And recurred and recurred and recurred ...

So what. As long as you have new members, they're going to be asking the same questions over and over. Unless you've got a suggestion on stopping that, why comment?

[madnessjack]

Recurring discussion much?

Recurring discussion much?

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if you do a search around the community, you'll be able to gauge a better view of opinion around here.

i accidentally booted up into the beta the other day and personally it's the slickest fastest thing i've ever had running on my machine. i wouldn't buy it but if it came on a new computer i'd certainly use it
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