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| Thread ID: 102452 | 2009-08-19 11:45:00 | Windows 7 - Like it? | myke (7862) | Press F1 |
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| 802587 | 2009-08-19 12:23:00 | Yes, but its called "trialing" :p And you can upgrade to the RTM later....if you win lotto:p Pretty much I'm just getting feel for it as I'm expecting to be supporting Win 7 users in the new year. In 2010 will be supporting XP/Vista/Win7/Tiger and Leopard... maybe we should add a flavour of Linux and Windows 3.1 just cover all the bases... Eventually XP/Vista will dissolve into Win7, Tiger will sneak away and we will ignore Snow Leopard. Can't wait for Google's O/S, it'll probably come out of Beta in 2020. |
myke (7862) | ||
| 802588 | 2009-08-19 12:33:00 | IMO Windows 7 is much, much better in every way than Windows Vista (and better in many ways than Windows XP). I am just wondering in what ways it is better than Vista. win 7 is essentially just vista, but had the annoyances removed by default. You can however configure Vista to work fine, and remove the annoyances. I have just moved from XP to vista, as XP has become useless running under new software that I have got, and I kept encountering lots of little bugs in the software when running it under XP. I find Vista runs faster than XP, with the software I use, and even memory usage is around the same. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 802589 | 2009-08-19 12:46:00 | I am just wondering in what ways it is better than Vista. win 7 is essentially just vista, but had the annoyances removed by default. You can however configure Vista to work fine, and remove the annoyances. I have just moved from XP to vista, as XP has become useless running under new software that I have got, and I kept encountering lots of little bugs in the software when running it under XP. I find Vista runs faster than XP, with the software I use, and even memory usage is around the same. Its more than just removing annoyances, it actually feels like it has a different structure to it, and its actually intuitive and enjoyable to use. Additional features such as libraries, homegroup, and other minor tweaks really distinguish 7 from Vista. And if Vista uses the same memory as XP for you...then thats a serious problem, as due to the way Vista handles free memory, LOTS of memory should be in use all the time.. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 802590 | 2009-08-19 12:49:00 | Pretty much I'm just getting feel for it as I'm expecting to be supporting Win 7 users in the new year. In 2010 will be supporting XP/Vista/Win7/Tiger and Leopard... maybe we should add a flavour of Linux and Windows 3.1 just cover all the bases... Eventually XP/Vista will dissolve into Win7, Tiger will sneak away and we will ignore Snow Leopard. Can't wait for Google's O/S, it'll probably come out of Beta in 2020. If you are in the business of supporting users I hope you are helping MSDos users as well. Or even DRdos for that matter. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 802591 | 2009-08-19 21:03:00 | Additional features such as libraries, homegroup, and other minor tweaks really distinguish 7 from Vista. FWIW - Win7 Homegroup Networking (www.betanews.com) and... A free transformation pack (www.technonix.com) that will change the look of your Windows XP to Windows 7. ---- Blam, what else do you like about Win7? For me, Homegroup and Libraries would not justify spending the extra $$$. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 802592 | 2009-08-19 22:03:00 | My :2cents: Good Native H.264 support. Slightly lighter system requirements Bad Not the big jump that it should've been; a hardened kernal Hypervisor running different levels of VM's - the lowest level one for trusted apps like NOD32 and Malwarebytes, one for semi-trusted apps like MS Office, and another that gets completely flushed on every reboot, used for web-browsing etc. |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 802593 | 2009-08-19 22:34:00 | It probably is the best Windows OS.:thumbs: | bk T (215) | ||
| 802594 | 2009-08-19 22:41:00 | It probably is the best Windows OS . :thumbs: Agreed . I really like it . If we had gone from XP to 7 it would have been a very different story, we would have all been complaining about how everything had moved, the high system requirements, etc etc . Having the heap of puss that Vista was, it was hard to get worse from there and probably 'softened the blow' and made the transition easier . After saying that though, I would take 7 over XP any day, and it runs better on my old work PC, 2 . 4 Celeron with 1 . 25GB RAM than XP did . Definitely impressed . :) |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 802595 | 2009-08-19 22:45:00 | FWIW - Win7 Homegroup Networking (www.betanews.com) and... A free transformation pack (www.technonix.com) that will change the look of your Windows XP to Windows 7. ---- Blam , what else do you like about Win7? For me, Homegroup and Libraries would not justify spending the extra $$$. I personally don't like Homegroups, but I like the idea, end users could set up a proper network without jumping into the technical stuff... Also I quite like the super bar...and other minor tweaks, such as copying network profiles to a flash drive, general performance, and other "tweaks" that should have been in windows a long time ago.. All in all, Windows 7 is perfect for the typical user and the power user. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 802596 | 2009-08-19 22:48:00 | After saying that though, I would take 7 over XP any day, and it runs better on my old work PC, 2.4 Celeron with 1.25GB RAM than XP did. Definitely impressed. :) What do you mean by runs better? Things are faster, or responsive or? Most things I have read, they found Win 7 was slightly better than Vista, but XP was generally faster... |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
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