ANyone tried Windows 7 yet?

[Fanum]

The RC has been up for a while and it looks like it'll be going gold on Oct 23rd

Has anyone tried it yet?


I'm tempted to set up a dual boot just to have a play with it

 

[Fanum]

There are some nice little features from the looks of it

How long before judgeypoos or one of the other mac victims pops up and says 'it's all been in 'snow leapoard for ages'

 

[Dickieboy]

Bill I downloaded it from MS about two weeks ago, got the licence number as well but the laptop is running like a sewing machine so I haven't bothered.
All reports say that even the beta version is better than vista, Click and the Gadget show both rate it.

 

[cookie]

Has anyone tried it yet?

i have it installed on a virtual machine on my iMac.

it's certainly more pleasing to use than than Vista, but i've only played with it briefly.

it is said...12, yes TWELVE different versions of 7 will be available in europe in october, at eye watering prices.

Snow Leopard $29 in september. no contest

M$. what a bunch of twats

 

[araspitfire]

I also have it sitting on a VM on my new laptop.

It seems to work ok, some mildly amusing improvements built in, that you could mostly add to Vista yourself.

I'm not really sure why people seem to think that 7 is going to be better than Vista... I've seen no sign that MS has expressed any form of regret for the antisocial aspects of Vista and Office 2007. If they don't think they've done anything wrong with those two major achievements... then why would they make Windows 7 any 'better'?

FWIW IMHO Vista is fine... I had security improvements added to all my XP builds that made me answer anoying boxes every time I wanted to add software (and more importantly prevented anyone from adding something I didn't want).

It's the changes (without compatibility mode) to Office 2007 that I find unforgivable... Everyone I know (and there are a lot) who was a power user of earlier versions of Office have been kicked in the nuts over 2007... they still complain daily about not being able to find (or remember once found) functions that they used a lot before. How hard would it have been to build a menu system option that mirrored Office 2003? Thus allowing all existing users to continue getting work done. Easy to say "don't upgrade"... but many have no choice... work upgrades... they upgrade...

That said... Windows 7 is warm and fuzzy feeling... Like Vista was before that (as a first impression)... we'll see if they've smoothed over enough of the sharp hidden edges to make people love it... but I doubt it really...

Al...

 

[Fanum]

it is said...128, yes One hundred and twenty eight different versions of 7 will be available on piratebay in october , at zero cost
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Fixed, to reflect possibly why they're charging so much

 

[Fanum]

FWIW IMHO Vista is fine... I had security improvements added to all my XP builds that made me answer anoying boxes every time I wanted to add software (and more importantly prevented anyone from adding something I didn't want).
Al...

Because of the hardware support (or lack of) and some of the DRM issues, I never bothered with Vista....I've got a couple of working copies but I've stuck with a licensed XP with lots of tweaks.

Every-other OS seems like a good rate to replace (and thus get a new licensed OS) a pc at

 

[DaveGSCymro]

'it's all been in 'snow leapoard for ages

 

[cookie]

'it's all been in 'snow leapoard for ages

i don't think much of the pell check though

 

[shugie]

I've been running a dual boot machine for a bit, Vista and Windows 7. The main differencces I've noticed so far is that there is a sort of virtual machine built in as 'XP mode', the device manager is an improvement, and the whole thing is a bit more mac like.

I think it should be called "windows for people that were happy with XP but didn't like Vista"

 

[cookie]

I think it should be called "windows for people that were happy with XP but didn't like Vista"

that sounds like a very good idea

 

[DaveGSCymro]

i don't think much of the pell check though

Copied from Fanum's post.

 

[cookie]

Copied from Fanum's post.

oh yeah. should have known leperd woodent fcuk up like that

 

[DaveGSCymro]

oh yeah. should have known leperd woodent fcuk up like that

See, woorks perfectley

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

if i remember when 7 beta came out - they are saying that its free to download and try - but needs registering a purchasing after a certain date if you're jumping from xp
I think vista to 7 is free though ?

draw you in and offer you no way back. you certainly wouldn't want to use it as a main os from xp

i'm just trying to setup a virtual machine with linux mint in to see what thats like - good reports so far

 

[shugie]

if i remember when 7 beta came out - they are saying that its free to download and try - but needs registering a purchasing after a certain date if you're jumping from xp
I think vista to 7 is free though ?

draw you in and offer you no way back. you certainly wouldn't want to use it as a main os from xp

i'm just trying to setup a virtual machine with linux mint in to see what thats like - good reports so far

Linux Mint is fine, but I need something that runs Windows programmes no bother, and the only thing that does that (mostly) is windows.

Next step is to take a working windows environment, copy it onto a spare disk, and see what the upgrade to seven is like, usually causes utter chaos an upgrade.

 

[Toad]

I've used 7 on my main work machine for the last 3 months.

It's been trying at times, and does some funny things.

Want to move to the RC, but there is no upgrade path, so it's a full rebuild

 

[GS Bloke]

I am using it right now, I upgraded from Vista Ultimate (ugh) with no problems.
Much faster and seems to use less Ram than Vista, some nice task bar enhancements, all my app work fine, although Mapsource did need to be run as admin the first time so it can write to the registry.
The themes are good, it will auto change the desktop background which is neat.
Recent Documents are now displayed as a fly out menu beside the app icon on the start/program menu, so Mapsource has a menu that pops out with my
recently open .gdb files.
I would say it's worth having a look.

 

[ExpatinIstanbul]

From what I've heard, from a MS insider, once 7 is released you won't be able to upgrade from any previous OS, you'll have to buy it outright. This is something to do with bundling IE8, or something similar.

 

[GS Bloke]

From what I've heard, from a MS insider, once 7 is released you won't be able to upgrade from any previous OS, you'll have to buy it outright. This is something to do with bundling IE8, or something similar.

This is right, as MS have been told they can no longer ship IE with the O/S there will be no upgrade path to Windows 7, you will have to install from scratch