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Windows 7 - Feedback
14-01-2009 4:18 PM
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I'm looking for feedback from the brave souls out there that, like me, are playing with this new offering from M$. I have only just installed it, and at a glance it's clear this apple didn't fall too far from the Vista tree that preceded it. Fair enough, since Vista is nice to look at after all. The lightening of the desktop has also been fairly well done. Multiple instances of the same app stack up in the tool bar like a run of cards in solatair, and the removal of the side bar is - lets face it - not exactly a bad thing. Performance wise I have noticed it's more than just a couple of gears up from Vista when compaired at the same stage of development. I remember Vista Beta speeds and they were not exactly impressive...at all. All this initial observation just digs in and builds a big wall arround my opinion that Vista was simply another MilleniumEdition. And let's face it, I am far from alone in thinking that Vista was simply a stop-gap money erner for the comming "real OS".
As I said, I havn't had much time with it yet, So I'll post more as I find it. One of my main curiosities has been left untouched though, as it seems that Win7 doesnt like the virtual NIC in my instalation of VMware Workstation. I have as such not been able to fiddle with the networking side of things much to my dissapointment. Interesting though (or maybe not), I did notice that a DXDIAG tells me that Win7 Beta is running a strait up DirectX 11 (not 10.x variant).
I'll keep updating, and will put together a more consise post in the next day or two once I have had a chance to get it installed at home as well and had time to see how uptime affects memory and page file performance.
Look forward to seeing what you other guys and gals have to say on your experiances.
Regards
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Muppet
Re: Windows 7 - Feedback
14-01-2009 4:39 PM
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And it's faster.
I'm running it on hardware that I also use for XP and Vista, about 5 years old (AMD Socket A @2.2GHz, 1.5GB of DDR400 and SATA)
The only thing that is "worse" is the onboard AC'97 audio - a few quirks and broken functions. Driver issues I guess.
Re: Windows 7 - Feedback
14-01-2009 4:41 PM
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If it helped click the thumb
If it fixed it click 'This fixed my problem'
Re: Windows 7 - Feedback
15-01-2009 1:15 AM
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The little changes all add up to make a big difference, it is the best OS I've used, and is more stable in Beta than Vista/XP were before SP1 (or SP2 in XP's case), the new Library function is fantastic, everything "just works". Apple is going to be in major trouble, 7 is a *lot* prettier than OSX and with a greater range of hardware/software. Linux will be in less trouble, 7 looks prettier than KDE4, but Linux owners tend to prefer the FOSS philosiphouyouyy long word, and server editions will lack Aero and so Linux won't be under threat there. People who went to Linux rather than use Vista though may be tempted to come back.
All in all, its been a great OS to use, its going on my laptop too. People who hated Vista for the UI though won't change from XP, and its their loss, they will be 2 generations of DirectX behind
Re: Windows 7 - Feedback
15-01-2009 9:57 AM
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15-01-2009 10:03 AM
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Except for MSN no longer sitting in the system tray - that's just annoying. It works though.
Re: Windows 7 - Feedback
15-01-2009 11:23 AM
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15-01-2009 1:01 PM
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The link leads here: http://download.live.com/
You should be able to install it from there.
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15-01-2009 1:50 PM
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Re: Windows 7 - Feedback
15-01-2009 2:49 PM
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/edit - trying to install on my laptop, at the start it bugged out with a 0xc00000e9 error, its gone past it now but so far thats the only big error, doesn't bode well for my laptop when 7 goes RTM. Its currently installing, fingers crossed
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15-01-2009 4:05 PM
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15-01-2009 4:26 PM
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15-01-2009 4:32 PM
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My laptop is quite underpowered though, only 1GB of RAM but Win7 is still so fast and perky, its amazing really. Now to sort out that VGA
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15-01-2009 4:45 PM
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15-01-2009 7:28 PM
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