Xfire: none Steam: andy27_9 Location: Norfolk, UK Posts: 182
Anyone tried Windows 7 yet? I've got it on my work laptop using our technet licence, and all I can say is WOW. I didn't think they could do a lot to improve on Vista but they sure have, the only niggle so far is I can't rip a CD using media player 12. If anyone else is playing with it it'd be good to swap notes!
Xfire: sonicfury405 Steam: Sonicfury Location: Holland Posts: 1030
WMP 12 fucks up your MP3's so be sure to back them up.
Windows 7 is nice but they need to get rid of the mac like start bar. Micro$oft has to get original and stop stealing things, please have some balls and come up with something original.
As for the rest, Compared to vista and XP its faster, which is nice! [ image disabled ]
and i know alot of people who are running this as a main OS. For now xp sp2 is doing fine for me. BUT, i have an impression that this will be on my list of purchases when it goes live next year! [ image disabled ]
Wooptiedoo they made menu's even more slick, windows is getting the looks of a fancy's game main-menu. I guess that's gonna eat up even more memory. I really don't see the point those Italic menu's, can't image a person would want to read like that.
Well I guess see how it's gonna run when I have it. By the way are Vista driver competable on this version of windows or are we're gonna have the: nothing-works-drag again all over?
Xfire: none Steam: andy27_9 Location: Norfolk, UK Posts: 182
Excellent lots of thoughts and comments! Microsoft will never please us all, and there are things that I don't like too, but overall Vista and Windows 7 are such huge leaps in the right direction I can forgive them all.
They have made the menus slicker, and there will be people that want to stay in the past and argue that the changes are of no use. They've removed the XP "skin" so you'll be forced to use the new layout. Everything I had plugged in and working with Vista still works with Windows 7 even my ancient Nokia 6820 via bluetooth.
It's apparently less "heavy" than Vista, however I'd still recommend plenty of RAM, i have 4GB in the laptop and a dual core processor and it runs beautifully (as does Vista).
I've just used the public beta to get a key for my home PC so I'll be testing it out at home with some gaming at some point too
just downloading now, goin throw it on a VM and hav a play, mark you tried server 2008 yet mate, got it running as VM on my machine just to get use to it. [ image disabled ] War is in your blood, when pushed - killings as easy as breathing" (John J Rambo)
Xfire: none Steam: andy27_9 Location: Norfolk, UK Posts: 182
Yeah I've not noticed any problems with my music files and WMP12 but not used it much yet. Managed to download it no problems last night so their site should be OK now.
Server 2008 is excellent, we are using the new terminal server remote apps in production and they work like a dream (albeit with initial teething problems!)
Xfire: none Steam: andy27_9 Location: Norfolk, UK Posts: 182
Indeed! I am choosing to use it as my production machine as I did the same from the first Alpha of Vista with very few problems. I've identified a problem with the spooler service (it keeps falling over), and Windows Mobile Device Center won't run, but I did an upgrade rather than a clean install (to see if it worked), and like you say, it's a BETA, so backup before you play, and don't expect everything to work properly or possibly even first time.
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