Windows 7

remus

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!

remus

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.

remus

In yet more exciting news, i hear windows 7 can burn .iso images without the need for additional software.

remus

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.

kwistenbiebel

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.

linea

I'm just not finding that. I have Sp1 installed and vista still seems very clunky.

Stinkie

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.

Gaieus

I hope to be using XP for a couple of more years... Hopefully SU will be released for Linux by then

chango70

@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.

linea

I have the 32bit version, so maybe the 64bit version is much better.

remus

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.

Stinkie

@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?

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:

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.

remus

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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!)