Why should I only look at the exact date which windows 7 was released, rather than the date when a major release of debian got out, say 2011 with Debian 6.0? No network issue, occasional problems with x-server, problems with sound (as said above). Network works out of the box. On windows, issue with network, issue with graphics (until driver was installed), no problem with sound.

A few months ago I bought a gaming laptop on release date. Guess what, network worked without issue. X-server did not start until proprietary drivers were installed. Sound worked.

Windows release schedule do not match Debian's release schedule. Each year after a release, the default drivers will get worse, but the general experience can still be obtained by people who experience the install process. The experience I have endured with windows is issue with new motherboards and especially network drivers (and built-in raid cards for the installer... good grief, that was a wasted afternoon trying to get the installer to accept the raid drivers). Second to that, the fall back graphic drivers look crappy and is bad in every way except that its slightly better than a basic command prompt.