I'm sorry John, but it's your hardware,, not the OS on stability.
The only reason most people were Purchasing the P 830D was for it's stability in over clocking it.
Other than that, you need to upgrade your hardware for Vista/7. That is the way it is and it isn't going to Change.
Windows 8 will be the same way,,, as it was when XP first released.
People complained about XP's memory requirements all the way back then. So, it is De Ja Vu.
... have been replaced with less valuable fluff and puff features
quote " dumping the many useful features and adding less useful "fluff and puff' features! "
Comparing to Vista or XP?
Perhaps you could outline which specific features. Maybe the previous alternative is hidden there.?
Ok,, well,, I say it again,,,,,
If 7 and Vista for that matter,,,, are sooooooo unstable,,,,, then why is it that I have never, not once had any,,, not one single stability issue with either.
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There are many, but the first two that come to mind are the efficiency of the "classic start menu", another is the ability to arrange Windows Explorer window icons in my desired order. The only order available in Windows 7 is alphabetical. (I brought this issue up in TechNet forum and they responded with the possibility that eventually they might be able to be automatically arranged according to order of most recent use, but forget any manual arrangement according to user wishes.) I am not referring to desktop icons, but rather to folder windows within Windows Explorer.
Another frustration that comes to mind is the arrangement of items in Control Panel. The English speaking world (and most of the rest of the world) is accustomed to reading columns from top to bottom. So why would they arrange the Control Panel items alphabetically across each row? If we want to find something that starts with a "G", why can we not just scan down the left side of each column in turn 'til we get to the "Gs" instead of moving our eyes and attention across 24 or so rows of 3 items each?
In general, Microsoft has ignored the wishes of a huge portion of their user population and has done what Microsoft wants to do, not what the user wants done. If I cannot use one product satisfactorily, I will search for another product to spend my money on. This policy includes Microsoft. I cannot use Windows 7 as efficiently as I can use Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Well, I ran Windows 7 x64 for a few months, I could not take it anymore, the freezes, network disconnection's.
Occasionally I too experience network disconnections.