I honestly couldn’t care less what my operating system looks like – what I care about is that it eats the least possible amount of CPU and memory, and frees up computing power for actual applications.
Especially now that they stick Windows 7 on low performance machines like netbooks and nettops, there isn’t even the “upgrade to a newer machine” excuse – I (and probably other people) need every single possibility that can scrape even a little bit off the resource use of Win7.

I can combat your statement about stability by saying on my Dell D630 Windows 7 experiences problems with a triple screen setup with desktop composition enabled (Aero) turn it off (Basic) and the issues are gone. Using windows classic will always be a developers main choice since it means less resources for the visual elements of windows.

I personally like Aero and use it, but your statement was and is a little incorrect, using Aero by no means speeds up the system, does not improve stability, or improves productivity.

Please when writing an article from a tech aspect be accurate, say that Aero makes your experience more visually enjoyable, but nothing about it does what you say it will. Smart Window arrangement still works in Basic and Classic modes as it does with Aero. The only change in them is you lose the taskbar thumbnails when moving down from Aero.

I personally edit the registry to do away with that since it gets in my way, but that’s a personal preference.

I want the classic windows view, and all this child can tell me is how he loves Windows Seven and how wrong everyone else is.

I wish you college pukes would quit fixing things that aren’t broken.

Oh! Theres my email address, but, I cannot access it because, Windiows 7 didn’t include Outlook Express!

Cheap pricks!