Windows 7

[mrsquirrel]

Anybody trying out the Betas to this?

[Thetyim]

I took a look at it and decided that there were no new features that would be of any use to me.
Also it takes up 7-10 GB of hard disk space.

I tried a version of XP with all the Vienna styles on it and thought it was crap.
I have now gone back to XP Pro with Vista styles.

[kingwilly]

It's Beta for a reason.

[Gerbil]

I've been running it in a VM. Quite impressed.

One problem is you can only do an 'upgrade install' from Vista, not XP. So you need to do a 'clean install' if you are runnig XP currently, then reinstall all your programs and data.

[mrsquirrel]

Due for a reinstall anyway.

Worth giving it a test since I never went to Vista

[Takeovers]

I installed it on a new laptop. Good thing I got it without OS. I don't like those recovery versions.

Generally the install worked just fine. One exception was the network adapter. It was not recognized. But installing the Vista-Driver worked just fine.

No time to do much with it yet. I never used Vista because I didn't like it. 7 seems to be just Vista second edition. But I won't buy another XP for it any more. I will just wait until Vista is sold with free upgrade to 7 and then try it. I hope that will be available by june. That's when I will need it on travel. At least I know now that Windows 7 will work. If the Beta does, the final version will do for sure. The vendor didn't want to say, yes it works.

I have tried to install more of the Vista-Drivers with utilities but was not yet able to. I can't overwrite them. Windows 7 does not allow to go back to an older driver. I tried uninstall and install the newer driver but Windows just installs the newer driver again instead. But I'm sure, there are ways.

[mikehunt]

I really don't know why people bother with new Windows stuff. It's full of bugs & takes years to get right.
If your a Microsoft freak, stick to XP Pro. If you're smarter, use a version of Linux.

[mrsquirrel]

^ Because techies like to play with new things and test them out.

[Butterfly]

^ complete waste of time. Are you 15 ? grow up !!! only clueless idiots go try every new OS once they are released. It made sense 20 years ago when OS were new and innovative, but now ? major geek tard alert

Why fix anything when it works ? it's a tool, not a toy. I like XP and Win 2000 and I am keeping those

[mrsquirrel]

^ Luddite

[Butterfly]

^ with Windows ? don't think so, nothing really new, same old BS, different colors

if you need to play around with an OS as an exercise, try MacOS X, or OpenSolaris, it has an interesting filesystem called ZFS, it's actually a database more than a filesystem, quite interesting concept, waiting for it to be ported and supported under Linux.

[melvbot]

^ with Windows ? don't think so, nothing really new, same old BS, different colors

if you need to play around with an OS as an exercise, try MacOS X

Too good to miss those ones.

Nothing wrong with trying the new stuff that comes out, using it as a total replacement is the silly thing to do.

[Thanon]

have w7 since the public beta day, it works well but it start having this "u ran tons of stuff on it and now its slow" feeling, even thus i dont really have any new overhead since install ^^