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Microsoft Confirms October 22 Release Date For Windows 7
techwrench was one of several readers to send word that Microsoft has officially announced Windows 7 will be generally available on October 22nd. They also mentioned the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program:
"This program enables participating retailers and OEMs to offer a special deal to upgrade to Windows 7 for customers purchasing a qualifying PC. I'll be doing another blog post about this program with a date and more details when we get closer to availability. Obviously, Release To Manufacturing (RTM) is an important milestone on the path to GA. We anticipate that we'll be able to make the RTM code for Windows 7 available to our partners sometime in the 2nd half of July. We also expect to be able to make RTM code for Windows Server 2008 R2 available to our partners in this time frame as well."
...for Creative Labs to get on the ball and release 64bit audio drivers for the X-Fi series that don't cause constant crackling and odd behavior. I swear, past their XP drivers, the drivers for Vista and Win7 are horrid. Least I got a USB headset that works well. The rest of my Win7 RC test machine works wonderfully though, save for the sound, which is driving me insane.
Does anyone else have this issue? Am I insane? Will Dudley Do-Right save Nell Fenwick?
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Before people pounce on him like the lynchmob this website is, it's rarely the people in IT who want to stay with windows.
I work in IT and like to stay on Windows. I use Windows at work and with my lab at home for both workstations and servers. There have been times that I have used Linux for certain play projects, but honestly at the end of the day I end up going back to Windows. The only Linux/BSD variant I'm currently running is Monowall for my firewall. The last time I ran Linux as my primary workstation is when I played Quake and Team Fortress, and connected to the Internet through Netcom and my 28.8kbps modem :) I feel that I am a true IT geek too. I love working with computers, no matter what platform it is running. I love working with routers, firewalls, switches (I have a CCNA).
Maybe one can say that I'm not a real IT person, or that people like me are not that common, but the truth is there are a lot of people in IT who prefer staying with Windows.
Wan can't you use XP 64bit?
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I run Kubuntu. I consider other distros, I consider Gnome, I consider getting a Mac, I'll consider Windows 7 too. I did switch to Linux because of Vista but it's not like I've seen the light and would never ever use anything else ever again. It works, it has warts, if other companies are better at fixing their warts eventually I'll switch away again. Overly optimistic? No, but XP followed Windows ME, Intel Core's followed Pentium IV, in short I'm not ruling out the possibility that Microsoft learned a lot last generation.
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That's why numerology is so pervasive. It's just too easy to find connections. Pick any two digit number and any major historical even in the past 100 years and I bet I can find all kinds of 'amazing' connections.
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You said, "In essence, from our testing it's doing pretty well."
I'm very skeptical. Our October 22, 2011 adoption date may be delayed. Let everyone else have the hassles, as they did with Vista and Windows ME, and several versions of DOS. Bringing out unfinished versions has been very profitable for Microsoft.
Windows XP had very serious, but not obvious, problems until SP2.
Windows 7 is just another version of Windows NT, but Microsoft calls it an entirely new operating system, and most people accept that.
Every new version of Windows has some features that require a lot more computing power. That is because, apparently, the hardware manufacturers are Microsoft's true customers, and they want everyone to be required to buy new hardware.
Some people have been claiming that "critical updates" to Windows XP have caused it to be slower. What has been your experience?
Forced? I can't think of many pieces of software that work on Vista and not XP. If you have an ancient PIII, then by all means keep XP. If you have any relatively recent multi-core CPU, then the performance difference between XP and Vista is negligible at best, and the stability improvements are welcome.
Does Vista run poorly on older hardware? Yes. Would you complain that blu-ray video doesn't look good on your 14" CRT?
I guess I would have to disagree with you then. Windows 7 feels faster than vista, and has a lot of features I like way better than XP, and somewhat better than Vista. When they allow you to install an RC on your computer and use it, and it is stable and fast, that seems about as honest a beta or RC as you can have. I don't know what would make you think Windows 7 is a "demo". You think Microsoft will intentionally break their code now? I somehow don't think they will.