2009-01-14, 04:56 | Link #1 |
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Windows 7, would you switch?
I believe that microsoft is offering free download for windows 7 beta for the next two weeks. I have heard a lot about windows 7 being a lot better than vista. Have you tried windows 7? Would you switch now? What do you think of windows 7 vs vista?
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2009-01-14, 05:25 | Link #2 | |
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So yes, I'll switch as soon as the final version comes out (knowing how the beta damages some mp3s when played). I mean, it can't be worse than Vista on its release, now THAT was tragic. And luckily, MS realized that. Glad to hear that.
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2009-01-14, 05:57 | Link #3 |
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The beta MP3 bug has been fixed already.
I've been using Windows 7 64-bit for a few days now and I like it so far. However, I'm not using it full time as there seem to be weird playback issues. Crashed once while attempting to play anime already I'm liking the new Windows considerably over XP and plan to switch as soon as it's out of beta. That and the fact I'm starting to run out of memory addresses under 32 bit. |
2009-01-14, 07:20 | Link #6 |
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Windows 7 has a smaller footprint than Vista AFAIK.
For you Vista haters out there, have you guys tried Vista? Granted, the launch wasn't very smooth, but you can't fault Microsoft when OEM's shitty drivers are causing a majority of the crashes and problems Vista had. It just seems like that the majority of the people saying Vista sucks heard it from a friend, who heard it from another friend that knows something about computers, who read about it online at 4chan of all places. Last edited by problemedchild; 2009-01-14 at 07:31. |
2009-01-14, 08:15 | Link #7 | |
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I mean, I have Vista and I don't see that much of a major difference between that and XP. Not now, with SP1 getting rid of all the nuisances. It's just that people keep being stubborn about it. Who wanted to switch from 98 to XP back in the ol' days, eh? Was the same. Btw, lately, every software is crap when it reaches its release date. Try playing any PC games on version 1.00 nowadays. Seriously, what a pain...
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2009-01-14, 09:20 | Link #8 |
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Better give this thing a try (rather than to talk sarcastic without even actually trying the OS), as long as it's installed in a separate hard disk, and see if it'll work or fails to deliver. Then we make our judgment.
We all know that Microsoft got its butt fried for Vista (and in the past, 2000 and ME).
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2009-01-14, 10:11 | Link #10 |
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So if I am going to download and install windows 7, should I get another drive if I don't want to wipe out everything in my old drive running on vista? Is the installation easy? I tried to downgrade vista to xp but it tells me that i have to have a "floppy drive." geeze, who is using floppy drive these days? I don't so the installation fails and no way to go around that.
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The installation is more or less the same as Vista, so very easy. |
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2009-01-14, 11:01 | Link #13 | |
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You don't need another disk or anything else really, though you should have a decent amount of free space on your hard drive, say 20GB or so. VirtualBox creates a file that represents an entire disk drive to the "guest" operating system which in the case would be Win7. The guest OS is installed into this file. I'm still sticking to Linux; I just want to be able to run the occasional balky Windows app or see how the websites I've designed look in IE. Oh, and to have a version of Windows I can run that doesn't phone home to use "Windows Genuine Advantage." And yes, -KarumA-, Windows 7 is the successor to Vista.
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2009-01-14, 11:02 | Link #14 |
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I have Vista and while I don't hate it, if I could somehow downgrade to XP I would. However, many people claim to have Vista working great with 4-8 gigs of RAM, and I only have 2 which makes Vista quite slow. So for me, once I disabled UAC, Vista was "just a bit slower" than XP. I can live with it. What I really want is to do a clean install of Vista to remove all the bloatware so 1 gig of my RAM doesn't get used when I start up my computer, although I'm not entirely sure how to do that either.
About Windows 7, I'll do the same thing. I'm not one of those people who installs pretty much anything and everything once it gets released, so I'll just wait for feedback. Chances are Windows 7 can't be worse than Vista, but I'm too cautious so I'll definitely wait for feedback.
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2009-01-14, 12:20 | Link #16 | |
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More like they feared nobody would buy Vista even when it would be bug-free. So they rather decided to focus on a "new" OS. Can't blame them...such a wasted reputation.
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2009-01-14, 12:23 | Link #17 | |
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however they wont have the trouble with drivers when switching to Windows 7 unlike us XP users |
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2009-01-14, 12:27 | Link #18 | |
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How much smaller then? Somehow with Vista's current footprint I can hardly see how they would manage to make it smaller to make a visible difference between them (by visible I mean a gig or two... not a couple hundred megs).
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A heavy sigh follows everytime when I boot into Vista just to play a game, grrr DX10... Speaking of Windows... didn't M$ mention a kernel rewrite at some point? Or will it share the same fate of WinFS?
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