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Windows 7 - buying?
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Anyone putting their money down now for Windows 7?
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/buy/offers/pre-order.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/buy/offers/pre-order.aspx
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I would consider it, changing my Vista PC to Win7, although I dont have the "need" too change it, considering they are being Arsehats about giving europe the upgrade from current OS option. where as America can upgrade from Vista to 7 at a cheaper cost, this isnt being rolled out in the UK.
You know that's because of the european law people dont you?
Because if it's an upgrade install, it will come with internet explorer, and that's bad.
Despite the fact every other operating system ever comes with an internet browser! Why don't Apple get sued for buying cross platform software and making it OS X only, I wonder?
Certainly not. The machine I'm testing it on(fair spec laptop, not overclocked, makes 100+ day uptimes with my regular OS) has hard-locked 4 times so far, each after 3-4 days of use.
Not the best experience for me. I'll stick with paying £0.00.
why would microsoft want to punish it's own customers?
Back on topic, I have used Win 7 at work, my boss setting up a demo PC loaded with Win 7 for us employees to try out. I like the fact that M$ have toned down on the processes so that it's more like XP now with 20 running processes on a clean install. As for me upgrading though, I prefer to wait until a service pack has come out for the OS before I consider switching to it. With XP, I waited until SP2 before I considered that XP was "good". With Windows 98, it was second edition that did it for me.
Hi All,
I have been running the Beta and RC version of Windows 7 now for about 6 months. It is a very stable and managable operating system. It can easily replace the out dated XP.
I also work in an IT firm and our office PC use Windows 7 now to manage the network. We have never had a problem
Over the next 2-3 years we are planning to migrate all 15 of our servers to server 2008
We haven't had a single problem with Windows 7 yet though. Really easy to manage the DC's, all the administrative tools work fine, Active Directory is easy to load.
After seeing the random reboots several times, it's currently on 22 days of being up - and I've not updated anything.
Weird... Still, it's not a daily production machine. That one still runs Linux, and does this without batting an eyelid...
I'll hit 3x that uptime without trying, unless we have a power cut...
I preordered win 7 though, as it was a good deal and it's likely I was going to get it anyway.
Faster than Vista
New features
Will probably look nicer
Against:
(Possible) Driver/hardware issues
(Possible) Software compatibility
Are the last two possible/likely/reported by test users? If so, I'll wait until it's working nicely before buying.
its the same kernel (code underneath the pretty stuff) so everything should be compatible if it was compatible with vista. main issue so far, which isnt a massive issue tbh, is just a bit on unreliability. It wont matter so much for a home machine - one crash every 2 weeks due to something or other like an application crash is bearable. But if you're using for a server it's not ready.. yet.
My box finally locked at 28 days. I rebooted, and it locked again the next day. And again this morning... it's less predictable than WinME!
Right this minute I'm on a windows os but normaly I'm on a linux system ...it's free it's fast and it's trouble free ...no antivirus no firewall ...and did I say it's free.
Even though I'm on a windows os right now ...it isn't using internet explorer ...it's using firefox ...why isn't everyone using firefox?