Windows 7

[boofredlay]

I am using it right now.

[tomot]

Its was a slow Friday morning. Since Designers appear to have more time on their hands these days, I thought I would install Windows 7 beta on a new 500gb SATA Hdd

Here are my observations:

1. No automatic router internet connection yet, unlike Ubuntu 8.10. The entire install still takes almost twice as long as Ubuntu.
2. No optimized monitor display recognition from video card
3. Very poor quality system font display. (muddy grey), much worse than the existing Vista or XP font display.
4. No recognition of 2nd data filled 500gb SATA Hdd, even though the bios had recognized it prior to boot up. It did find a 3rd 250gb IDE Hdd however.

I'm interested in hearing about your experience, should you find some spare time.

[remus]

(www.engadget.com)

Who ever thought having 7 versions of the same thing was a good idea is a sandwich short of a picnic in my opinion.

[honoluludesktop]

Anyone know if Win7 work with the WinXP printers that Vista has no driver for? Actually the only reason I didn't do an upgrade.

[remus]

if there isnt a vista driver i doubt there is a win7 driver. As far as i can tell win7 and vista are very similar architecturally.

[honoluludesktop]

Well, Sigh, Thanks. Unless I am willing to take a performance hit, and run Win7 in a VM hosted on WinXP, an upgrade is not in the making for a while.

[remus]

http://www.therawfeed.com/2009/04/microsoft-announces-single-version.html

Rejoice!

[paulside]

Look at the date
(If only!)

[remus]

sigh perhaps one day...

[Pixero]

@remus said:

64 bit and 32 bit are essentiallly the samre as far as im aware.

As for peoples annoyance at vista, i reckon a large part of it comes from UAC.

I had to buy Vista when I built my new PC and must say for the most part I was positivly surprised.
UAC is a whole other story.
See my problems in this thread: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=17248&start=15

[remus]

I hear you can pretty much turn UAC off in 7, although i havent tried it yet.

[Mr S]

Hi,

I am little bit confused about peoples comments about UAC.
It was a knee-jerk reaction to the demands to "improve" security.
It was undoubtedly a stupid thing for Microsoft to introduce.
All it did was annoy the hell out of everyone

However, since SP1 it is a feature that can simply be switched off.
So, thats what I did. Problem solved.
I have a machine that is running Vista Home Premium and it is just like using XP except with a bit of extra eye candy.
Yes, the hardware needed to run Vista is more demanding than that needed for XP but hardware is constantly advancing and most "standard" machines produded today (or even a year ago) run Vista fine.

I am not a Microsoft fanboy (many years ago I was a Mac fanboy) but I have found Vista to be a stable OS with a slightly prettier GUI.
It wasn't the leap ahead it should have been and Windows 7 is just a further refinement of Vista.
But I can live with a steady evolution rather than a revolution of the OS I use.

To be honest, I don't think many software applications (including SketchUp?) that run on Windows come anyway near taking advantage of the advancements that have already been provided by this OS.
It seems to me that software developers are still years behind in bringing their software up to a level of exploiting the advances that have been made.

Why aren't we all running 64bit applications that are truly multi-threaded?
Why don't all serious graphic programs fully utilise DirectX?

I must be getting old.

Regards
Mr S (aka Mr Grumpy)