Windows 7
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First cool new thlng: hand writing recognition is really good. It's at the point where its actually usable, although I'm not Sure how much youd want to write before it got hard work.
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Haven't tried yet, that going to be this evenings activity.
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Remus
There is a saying
"You can't polish ****"
I want to hate it but I haven't tried it. I'll run it in virtual box rather than installing.
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I'll leave you to make your own judgements jon, im fairly sold so far, though. Plenty of time left for finding blidning cockups though.
That reminds me: they put the shutdown button on the start menu this time. Rejoice!
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Sketchup seems to work ok so far, havent tried loading any big files though as the laptop hasnt got a graphics card, so no hardware acceleration for me. Havent tried any plugins either.
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In yet more exciting news, i hear windows 7 can burn .iso images without the need for additional software.
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theres a very good round up here: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/windows-7-beta-in-depth-impressions/#comments for anyone whos still interested.
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The Vista haters are wrong.
Since SP1, Vista became very stable and better than XP.I will go Windows 7, but probably when I need to buy a new PC.
That's the bad remark I have about Microsoft: migrating from an old to a new OS is a fuss. -
I'm just not finding that. I have Sp1 installed and vista still seems very clunky.
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Don't go disagreeing with people again, Jon. You know it upsets them. Have you no empathy?
But on a more serious note: I liked XP better as well. Vista's not bad, but there's certain things that'll drive you mad.
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I hope to be using XP for a couple of more years... Hopefully SU will be released for Linux by then
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@kwistenbiebel said:
The Vista haters are wrong.
Since SP1, Vista became very stable and better than XP.I will go Windows 7, but probably when I need to buy a new PC.
That's the bad remark I have about Microsoft: migrating from an old to a new OS is a fuss.I concur, no Vista problem. Used it for a year. Both Vista 64 bit Ultimate and Vista 64 bit Home Premium. Had less crash than my G4 with Leopard. I don't understand where all the hostility is coming from.
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I have the 32bit version, so maybe the 64bit version is much better.
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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.
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@remus said:
As for peoples annoyance at vista, i reckon a large part of it comes from UAC.
I think you could be right about that. What were they thinking?
Apart from being annoyed with UAC, I personally don't have anything against Vista.Oh ... MS should kill Windows Media Player. Anyone use that piece of junk?
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I am using it right now.
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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:
- No automatic router internet connection yet, unlike Ubuntu 8.10. The entire install still takes almost twice as long as Ubuntu.
- No optimized monitor display recognition from video card
- Very poor quality system font display. (muddy grey), much worse than the existing Vista or XP font display.
- 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.
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http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/windows-7-skus-announced-yes-your-worst-nightmare-has-come-to/2
Who ever thought having 7 versions of the same thing was a good idea is a sandwich short of a picnic in my opinion.
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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.
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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.
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