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First Look At Windows 7 Beta 1
The other A. N. Other writes "It seems that Microsoft couldn't keep the lid on Windows 7 beta 1 until the new year. By now, several news outlets have their hands on the beta 1 code and have posted screenshots and information about this build. ZDNet's Hardware 2.0 column says: 'This beta is of excellent quality. This is the kind of code that you could roll out and live with. Even the pre-betas were solid, but finally this beta feels like it's "done." This beta exceeds the quality of any other Microsoft OS beta that I've handled.' ITWire points out that this copy has landed on various torrent sites, and while it appears to be genuine, there are no guarantees. Neowin has a post confirming that it's the real thing, and saying Microsoft will be announcing the build's official availability at CES in January."
In the first release of this paper, we said "Vista is still 32-bit" â" and this was true when we wrote it. Now, in December 2006, there is, in fact, an x86_64 build on the Vista CD-ROM now shipping. But it doesn't actually work â" even Microsoft's own preferred development tools don't run on it. It is unclear how much of this is due to problems specific to the 64-bit port versus how much of it is generic to Vista. Nor does that distinction matter much; the point is, the codebase Microsoft is counting on to carry it into the 64-bit world has serious problems.
It's really outdated badly. I have been using 64bit Windows from a long time at both home and work with nary a problem. Of course, I don't have an ancient printer with no 64bit drivers. But that's a problem with other OSes too. Linux/BSD might have it better coz they can recompile the OSS drivers into 64bit.
This space for rent.
To answer your questions:
Yes, I feel that the iPod is just eye candy. The UI is abysmal, that damn wheel is annoying, and whatever happened to something as logical as what my Sansa c240 with Rockbox uses?
The iPhone is useless glitter. Sorry, but I don't want a phone that isn't a clamshell. I also want a phone that can take a beating like my Samsung A640 and A900 did. The 900's been kicked across a four lane road, thrown down a stairwell during an argument, dropped, juggled, and all around beaten. Thing lasted nearly two years before I finally managed to crack the bottom of the chassis and decide, "Yeah, time to use the replacement plan anyway."
The Wii would be interesting, since it's different, but I'll leave the WiiFit to the others.
And finally, yes, I would rather drive a Geo Metro instead of a Honda Civic.
As for things like semitransparent windows... I'll let someone else use those. I'm not a fan.
One of these days, I am going to flip out. When I flip out, I'll be back in five minutes.
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"I own an iPhone" vs "I own a RAZR v3". "The new iPhone is sweet" vs "The new Samsung A610 is sweet".
Anybody else notice the difference?
replying to cancel accidental mod
As I write this, the parent is modded Off-Topic for responding:
They never left. I use Vista, and it's as snappy as XP ever was.
To a DIRECT QUOTE from http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1074689&cid=26250025 that was at 5 as I write this.
That seems patently impossible.
Pathological kinda promises Path + Logical - but instead, you get stuck with pathetic.