M$ Windows 7 (Read 18028 times)

slackline · January 13, 2009, 12:59:58 pm

M$-Windoze are making the Beta release of their new operating system free for all for two weeks BBC News item and the official Download Page.

I wonder if it will be as revolutionary as Vista?

GCW · January 13, 2009, 01:11:54 pm

No.
Stick to XP, and avoid any penguins

dontfollowme · January 13, 2009, 01:13:31 pm

Probably to the SP1 edition.

slackline · January 13, 2009, 01:28:29 pm

Quote from: dontfollowme on January 13, 2009, 01:13:31 pm

Probably to the SP1 edition.

If you mean waiting till they release the SP1 edition thats kind of a circular argument since if everyone did that, no one would test the Beta (or first official Alpha release), no bugs/errors would be discovered, they wouldn't be fixed and the whole project would remain in stasis.

That said Beta testing is not for everyone.

Control freak · January 19, 2009, 11:57:02 pm

Been using windows 7 for the past week or so - gotta say its not exactly a breakthrough. Theres a few visual changes but its mainly just vista that works. Apparantly now there will be no more betas until the RC

Johnny Brown · July 15, 2009, 04:25:53 pm

Just installed this and its fuckin dynamite. Less problems than when I switched to Vista, seems faster so far and a really smart interface. If the colour management is all its supposed to be I think the reasons for having a mac just went out the window. Get it?

BB · July 15, 2009, 04:29:37 pm

Quote from: Johnny Brown on July 15, 2009, 04:25:53 pm

Just installed this and its fuckin dynamite. Less problems than when I switched to Vista, seems faster so far and a really smart interface. If the colour management is all its supposed to be I think the reasons for having a mac just went out the window. Get it?

Fully agree. The installation is so simple my Mum could do it and it boots on my acer aspire one in around 30 seconds, which is quicker than XP boots on my desktop!

The full version of Windows 7 home premium is now available for pre-order on play.com for £50. Deal, I say.

slackline · July 15, 2009, 04:32:04 pm

Quote from: BB on July 15, 2009, 04:29:37 pm

The full version of Windows 7 home premium is now available for pre-order on play.com for £50. Deal, I say.

BB · July 15, 2009, 04:46:50 pm

I can never tell if you're impressed or appalled Slackers!

slackline · July 15, 2009, 04:57:07 pm

Quote from: BB on July 15, 2009, 04:46:50 pm

I can never tell if you're impressed or appalled Slackers!

I like to keep an air of mystique about my persona

Bubba · July 15, 2009, 09:36:08 pm

Quote from: BB on July 15, 2009, 04:29:37 pm

The full version of Windows 7 home premium is now available for pre-order on play.com for £50. Deal, I say.

Hmmm, that's about £50 more than I'd pay for it

Jim · July 15, 2009, 09:53:20 pm

Right I'm on RTM 6400 64 bit now, will try it at some point.
Seeing as I haven't bothered putting vista on yet, I can't see any point in trying vista, I'll just skip straight from xp to this

Johnny Brown · July 16, 2009, 09:11:21 am

You're right there, go straight to 7. Still yet to hit any hiccups.

For any homies doing OS upgrades I recommend the MozBackup utility - dynamite.

cofe · July 16, 2009, 09:21:13 am

Jim, I'd expect a man of your calibre to have a disk with Windows 8 on it. And CS6 etc etc...

Obi-Wan is lost... · July 16, 2009, 10:15:54 am

Quote from: Johnny Brown on July 16, 2009, 09:11:21 am

For any homies doing OS upgrades I recommend the MozBackup utility - dynamite.

Also if your doing a clean OS install and have a few spare Gb of storage, think about taking an image of the drive once you've run all the updates, personal settings etc etc. Saves hours if you want to do a refresh in a few months. It's what all they techys do at work, they rarely build anew image from scratch.
This freeware sounds like the one to use. Also good if you want to play with Win7/Linux etc, easy to revert of your old OS if you want to.
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp
[disclaimer: I've yet to do this on my machines but plan to shortly, suffice to say if you do use it make sure you have other standard backups of files etc in case the image restore fails, and don't blame me if it doesn't work. :'( ]

BB · July 16, 2009, 01:06:34 pm

The windows 7 offer on play.com has gone, but I've found it for £45 here:

http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/advice/758/Windows-7

Palomides · July 16, 2009, 03:31:33 pm

As someone who bought a PC with Vista on it, I certainly will not be upgrading to Windows 7.

Pay Microsoft £45 for a new version of Vista that works properly? Fuck off. They should have either done it properly the first time, or made up for their mistakes by providing free upgrades.

Vista has been an unpleasant experience for me (slow, annoying and locking out a user account due to corruption in the registry). I feel cheated. I'll use Windows 7 if I get it free the next time I have to buy a PC, until then I'll use linux whenever I can. Bastards.

And as for "it works really well on netbooks", the minimum requirements for Windows 7 are a 1 GHz processor and 1GB of RAM. So that really should be "it works really well on expensive second-generation netbooks, but not yours". Nevermind, at least I can use an alternative. Fuck you Microsoft.

:penguin::penguin::penguin:

BB · July 16, 2009, 03:45:31 pm

Depending on when you bought your PC, you might be entitled to a free upgrade to windows 7.

I got my "expensive second-generation netbook" for £150 brand new. I didn't think that was expensive, but I guess it depends on your point of view.

Palomides · July 16, 2009, 04:05:55 pm

I bought the PC before Vista SP1 was available, in an unfortunate time window when no-one had realised just how crap Vista was, and before Dell started offering downgrades to XP Pro.

For netbooks, I bought a first-gen eee 701 for 100€ (in a time before that was £100, heh). It boots faster than the newer desktop, and is nicer to use.

Did I already mention that Microsoft can fuck off? Oh, I did. Well they can.

BB · July 16, 2009, 04:10:22 pm

I'm sensing some hostility towards M$.

Jim · July 16, 2009, 07:10:09 pm

good tip there obi-wan.

Palomides - chill out, no one forced you to buy vista. Re M$ 7, remember you have a very early net book, do you think asus should give you a free upgrade to a 10" screen?

I am going to try it out after I've jet washed the wheelie bins out :yuk:

and when I get my net book next week I'll be sticking it on that (x86 version)

Jim · July 16, 2009, 09:12:17 pm

Just started using it now, looks pretty good although I'm not used to all this fancy animation stuff as I always disable it, but whats the point in having a very fast computer and not using it?
anyway, anyone had any software compatible issues yet>

Jim · July 16, 2009, 09:59:43 pm

first one I've come accross is peerguardian, there is a work around but I've not been arsed to do it yet, someting to do with digital signing

Houdini · July 17, 2009, 08:43:10 am

So far Vista has been fine for me, a little ponderous at times - but it works. I'll look at the 7.

Samsung have a free offer of upgrading laptops to 7 from Vista if they were bought w/in a certain time frame. Check the website if you use Samsung.

BB · July 17, 2009, 08:45:14 am

It's well worth a go Houd. My windows 7 netbook boots faster than my XP desktop.