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In-Depth With the Windows 7 Public Beta
Dozer writes "With the Windows 7 public beta out, Ars Technica has an in-depth look at the release. There's praise for Windows 7's UI changes and polish as well much-needed changes to UAC, but also a warning that those who have problems with Vista won't like Windows 7 much better. 'If you couldn't stand Vista's UI (whether it's because you didn't like Explorer, Aero, Control Panel, UAC, or anything else), Windows 7 is unlikely to do much to help, as it builds on the same UI. If Vista's hardware demands were too steep, Windows 7 will likely cause you the same grief, as its hardware demands match. And if Vista didn't work with a program or device you need to use, Windows 7 will offer no salvation, as its compatibility is virtually identical.'"
Nothing more. Just viral marketing.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Oh my GOD, it has a NEW TASKBAR!!!
Surely that's worth forking out yet another $200. I HAVE to buy it!!!
As Warren Buffet said: Microsoft is a company without a business model.
Funny, I just swapped motherboards in my dual boot computer. Guess which partition I had to re-format and re-install. Was it linux? NOPE. Linux detected my new board and CPU and booted everything like a charm. Windows, on the other hand... and that's because I run XP. Heavens forbid I ran Vista - I'm sure I'd have to pay the Microsoft tax yet again because I dared to upgrade my PC.
Oh well. Good luck, Microsoft. Hey is Direct X 11 only going to run on Windows 7?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I'm still waiting for the next Win2K....More stable, less bloated, faster. Wait, that's in an alternate reality. I've already found OSX, and the improvements from 10.3 - 10.5 are truly amazing. Pretty much the opposite of MS OSes, which seem to degrade with each release (W7 not withstanding, as it's really just rebranded Vista SP2/3)
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
Wake me up when Windows sports a full database/metadata/semantic OS with lightning-fast filtering of even 1,000,000 files. That more than anything will change the way we organize stuff, (for the better).
Why OpalCalc is the best Windows calc
..to figure out it was a marketing campaign designed to get rid of the negative image of Vista not a new OS?
I've been calling it Vista2 for months. Glad to see I was ahead of the herd, and that my instincts are still sound...
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I used it on a brand new dual core 64-bit laptop w. nvidia graphics card and 2 gigs of ram - not exactly a slouch of a machine. I then parked the laptop for half a year - it just wasn't useable. Then I threw linux on it and it became an AWESOME machine - enough so that I upgraded to 4 gigs of ram.
If you think Vista is "good", you have a strange definition of "good." If you think it's "a modern OS", you're at least a decade behind the times. Windows is obsolete. Get a mac if you need the hand-holding.
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Or you can get a different OS, such as one of the Linuxes.
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what excuse is there for only having 1GB of RAM? You can buy 1GB of RAM for $15.
An older motherboard that can't use bigger RAM sticks, for one. The only way I could put 2 GB into one of my PCs is if I were to buy an ATA enclosure for RAM and put swap on that. Or a motherboard that has only one RAM slot, like that of the Eee PC.
So... the summary is basically saying that the problems everyone complained about with Vista, seem to be basically still there with Windows 7?
I am wondering whether they did a few small tweaks, sat on their asses and then did what the Vista advert did: call it something else and see if people thought it was better. Of course I am being cynical and only side by side testing will reveal how much has changed.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
...lipstick on Vista
(no offense Sarah)
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -- Prof. Dumbledore
Wow. Good thing he didn't say he had a 12GB SSD, or you'd have burst a few blood vessels.
"Hard Drive" is meaningless in your little "Press Release".
Anyone have a spare clue for this poor SOB?
You'll never get an answer.
"DRM Restrictions" is a keyword for the other trolls to jump in and agree, and to shout down anyone who brings up the fact that DRM support has Zero effect on anything but playing back supported content.
This is hardly moaning. In fact, what the hell has happened to slashdot when we have comments like yours modded up?!
So M$ has hidden some of the outrageous annoyances and can build an OS that stays up longer than Mac OS9 (har har. Lets not talk about boot times after install compared to months later). YOU'RE MISSING THE POINT! Microsoft either tries to buy or lock out innovation to gain market share by locking people into their proprietary rip offs of existing tech! They accept open standards through clenched teeth only when necessary. "Yay M$ has learned from their mistakes", meaning the refusal of corporate america to accept the Vista hog has cost them a lot and general opinion of the company is in the toilet.
This is not a matter of who can make a solid OS, it's a religious war of ethics and the future of computing. Get a clue. I hope your .pst corrupts.
If you only play WoW like me, you can do it on Linux to, end the Windows conspiracy now!