http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2009/01/14/progress-or-luddism-why-windows-7-isn-t-an-f1-car.aspxJason Perlow at ZD Net thinks I called him a luddite. Actually I said one of his colleagues barely stopped short of using the L word. &#160; Jason complained that “The “ Run ” option is no longer directly accessible from the Start Menu as a default behavior,en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2009/01/14/progress-or-luddism-why-windows-7-isn-t-an-f1-car.aspx#3182768Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:41:36 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3182768Thomas<p>Here be my top reason why Windows and Office cannot seriously be compared to an F1 car:</p> <p>1: An F1 car is quick.</p> <p>In contrast, my current OS is far more like your road car or dare I say even a pedestrian sporting an expensive, flashy but v. unnessecery semi-transparent shell suit!</p>http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2009/01/14/progress-or-luddism-why-windows-7-isn-t-an-f1-car.aspx#3182911Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:45:19 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3182911jamesone<p>Thomas it depends. I'm I finding vista Slow ? No. It's plenty fast enough, so is my road car. If you have hardware which isn't up to the job of running vista then 7 might turn out to be a pleasant surprise. </p> <p>A stripped down built for speed car doesn't do all the things I want. To date the only OS that does the things I want has been Vista, so my only choice has been Vista at the speed it runs (OK for me, not for everyone). 7 does only a little more than Vista but the general view seems to be it does it better AND faster - the worse the hardware the more noticable the improvement. So an OS built purely for speed, no thanks. &nbsp; </p>