Windows 7

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Anyone else using the "gold copy" due to debut October 22nd?

I obtained a copy of Windows 7 Professional through the school's MSDNAA program for free. I've been running Windows XP for years now and set up my home machine to multi-boot XP or Windows 7. This required some partition fiddling with Gparted since XP doesn't have a way to adjust partition size easily.

I've been running Windows 7 Pro for a couple of weeks now and I'm very impressed. It's what Vista should have been. I installed the OS, which was completely painless, it recognized all of the hardware in my 2-3 year old PC without a problem and everything "just worked". Even my television tuner setup was a breeze with the new version of media center my PC is now acting as a backup DVR in case I need to record more than 4 channels at once.

I'm close to removing XP and running Windows 7 Pro full time, although I think I'll wait until after the official launch.

 

[_stryder_]

Good info, thanx

 

[jomar]

I've read good things about 7. MS stumbled badly with Vista. I don't know why anyone bought it.

 

[Worm]

I play a couple online games and people claimed they were getting better performance with Win 7. I've been running the beta for a few months. Suprisingly everything worked with no driver issues since the first day I installed it. I have had no networking or performance issues either.

 

[_stryder_]

I've read good things about 7. MS stumbled badly with Vista. I don't know why anyone bought it.

I doubt if many people bought it, Vista that is, but got it with a new computer with no OS alternatives.

 

[KRCummings]

I only had Vista because it came already installed and I didn't hate it bad enough to mess around with it.
Still sucks though and I'm looking forward to 7 since the word of mouth is generally positive.

 

[jomar]

I doubt if many people bought it, Vista that is, but got it with a new computer with no OS alternatives.

I paid extra to stay with XP. Bastards.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

I paid extra to stay with XP. Bastards.

For those of you that absolutely MUST have XP because of software incompatibilities Virtual PC 2007 and Windows XP Mode are supposed to be included in the release.

It worked well for some school software that wouldn't run under Windows 7 natively because it didn't recognize the OS version. It worked beautifully.

 

[islandman]

For those of you that absolutely MUST have XP because of software incompatibilities Virtual PC 2007 and Windows XP Mode are supposed to be included in the release.

It worked well for some school software that wouldn't run under Windows 7 natively because it didn't recognize the OS version. It worked beautifully.

Any insight as to how seamless (or not) upgrading a Vista machine to 7 will be?

 

[CNYCarol]

I've read good things about 7. MS stumbled badly with Vista. I don't know why anyone bought it.

We were FORCED to get it!

Vista SUX

 

[coastal-boy]

qualified students can preorder 7 through Microsoft at a price of $30 for the FULL PROFESSIONAL VERSION. Our tech people have been testing 7 for over 6 months and they are very pleased with this product and are stongly pushing everyone to upgrade.

 

[coastal-boy]

http://windows7.digitalriver.com/store/mswpus/en_US/DisplayHomePage?

There is the link for qualified students. When your registration confirmation is sent to your email follow the link provided. There will be a yellow box in the middle of the webpage with a link that says "Do you need to join your school's local domain?" Follow that link and the offer for Pro will come up.

 

[pointless]

I doubt if many people bought it, Vista that is, but got it with a new computer with no OS alternatives.

that's how i got it. when it came out they had some good sales and at the time the only computer i had that was still working was running windows 95 because that's all it could handle.

sure, if i'd had the money a week or two before i could've got a cheap computer with xp instead, but i didn't, so i bought what i could when i could and drove me nuts until i bought some more memory because my comp just didn't have anywhere close to enough for vista even though at the time all i wanted to do was use it to write and listen to music. fucker used to freeze when i had media player and firefox open at the same time. bastards.

yes, i'm obviously still bitter about it.