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Offline hayashiTopic starter

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Windows 7
« on: October 22, 2009, 07:09:20 AM »
So... it's finally turned up.

Anyone here going to make the upgrade? I won't be; Linux and AmigaOS3 do pretty much every task I could want from an OS, and the only semi-functional Windows computer in my room is my Windows 98 retrogaming machine that I slightly messed up when I moved it to a new case. I hate Windows and all it stands for, and the only reason I'd buy 7 is if I desperately needed Windows and it suddenly crashed in price to be cheaper than XP.

And what the hell's with Microsoft throwing their crappy Ribbon UI around everywhere? To me, all Ribbons seem to accomplish is cluttering up the user interface, taking up a ridiculous amount of the screen, and cause users to have to wade through tons of irregularly laid-out tabs in order to find what in a toolbar system would be in plain view and (eg in previous versions of Office and IE) could be reconfigured into a layout that suited the user. It's like replacing a toolbox with a filing cabinet holding all the tools, and, in my opinion, it therefore ruins the desktop metaphor. (Who puts tools and only tools in a filing cabinet?)

One-man launch unparty time, I feel.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2009, 07:24:05 AM »
I will be, but then I work in IT.

My next rig build will be before Xmas, most likely a i5 or i7 based Win7 boxen.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2009, 07:49:04 AM »
It already turned up in August (I'm a Technet/MSDN member) and have been running the RTM for several months now. Good to be over and done with Vista, 7 feels a lot smoother and faster.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2009, 07:52:33 AM »
Running W7 Enterprise since mid July.
No objections so far. Compared to XP, most visible improvements include multitasking performance and networking subsystem. Maybe there are some other goodies, but those mentioned come from corporate/IT user arena, far away from gamers.
 
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2009, 10:54:24 AM »
Pre-ordered and mine turned up early on monday due to postal strikes was sent out early. Seems ok so far.  lot better than Vista so far and good compatibality VM stuff so some stuff that didnt run under vista now works again.
 
Im quite impressed so far to be honest.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2009, 11:10:17 AM »
Quote from: hayashi;526841
So... it's finally turned up.

Anyone here going to make the upgrade? I won't be; Linux and AmigaOS3 do pretty much every task I could want from an OS, and the only semi-functional Windows computer in my room is my Windows 98 retrogaming machine that I slightly messed up when I moved it to a new case. I hate Windows and all it stands for, and the only reason I'd buy 7 is if I desperately needed Windows and it suddenly crashed in price to be cheaper than XP.

And what the hell's with Microsoft throwing their crappy Ribbon UI around everywhere? To me, all Ribbons seem to accomplish is cluttering up the user interface, taking up a ridiculous amount of the screen, and cause users to have to wade through tons of irregularly laid-out tabs in order to find what in a toolbar system would be in plain view and (eg in previous versions of Office and IE) could be reconfigured into a layout that suited the user. It's like replacing a toolbox with a filing cabinet holding all the tools, and, in my opinion, it therefore ruins the desktop metaphor. (Who puts tools and only tools in a filing cabinet?)

One-man launch unparty time, I feel.

Already upgraded to MS Windows 7 Ultimate RTM (MSDN) since early Sep 2009.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2009, 12:14:11 PM »
Loaded it on a couple of computers at work and my wife's PC at home.  It's better than Vista, faster, cleaner.  Generally we've replaced our Vista machines with Windows 7.  You can turn off the bloody warnings.  MS and Apple did similar releases, largely bug fixes.  If you're an MS Windows fan you'll come, if your an Apple fan you'll go 'meh.'
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Offline Louis Dias

Re: Windows 7
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2009, 12:17:10 PM »
I like it.  Been running it since June on my laptop which had Vista.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2009, 12:43:33 PM »
I have and will transfer all XP machines at work and home, it a great OS buy now while the price is low. i have already bought 18 copies (dam i will be busy for a while... :( )
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2009, 12:45:51 PM »
Been running it for some time here as well, does pretty nicely even on an old single core laptop I have lying around.

Check out the awesome Resource Monitor, shows you your processes and how much memory/disk/cpu and even network they're utilizing, as well as what hosts each process is talking to: http://www.techsupportalert.com/files/images/rm_overview_1.jpg

Definitely a step up.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2009, 01:00:42 PM »
I've been running it for awhile. Its sad that the best thing about it is "XP mode". I still don't see many reasons besides support & security that would make people want to upgrade from XP? Vista users will love it cause it way faster then Vista on the same machine.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2009, 02:04:30 PM »
Vista actually has become pretty good now at the SP2 version ( 4 gig RAM on C2Duo @2.4 ghz)  I still think the boot time is frustratingly long. I only buy windows with new PC's so no win 7 on my 8 month old laptop.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2009, 02:28:39 PM »
pfft
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2009, 02:40:01 PM »
I will not install Windows 7 on my PC, unfortunately i need to use Windows for work and other hobbies like astronomy, which i need special software that only exists for Windows, Windows XP is enough for my needs. I don't usually play to Windows games, last game i played was Left4Dead, a great zombies FPS game, but i prefer retrogaming.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2009, 03:29:02 PM »
I received a request at work today, a lab with XP PCs wants to upgrade to Windows 7, first time I've received a request from someone who wasn't running Vista.  I'll let you know their reactions.  XP is really starting to show it's age.  I'm not a big Windows fan, but I've upgrade all the MSWindows machines in my personal life to 7.
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