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Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day
Eugen writes "A Microsoft Software Engineer has posted the results of tests the company performed on the upgrade time of Windows 7. The metric used was total upgrade time across different user profiles (with different data set sizes and number of programs installed) and different hardware profiles. A clean 32-bit install on what Microsoft calls 'high-end hardware' should take only 30 minutes. In the worst case scenario, the process will take about 1220 minutes. That second extreme is not a typo: Microsoft really did time an upgrade that took 20 hours and 20 minutes. That's with 650GB of data and 40 applications, on mid-end hardware, and during a 32-bit upgrade. We don't even want to know how long it would take if Microsoft had bothered doing the same test with low-end hardware. The other interesting point worth noting is that the 32-bit upgrade is faster on a clean install than a 64-bit upgrade, regardless of the hardware configuration, and is faster on low-end hardware, regardless of the Data Profile. In the other six cases, the 64-bit upgrade is faster than the 32-bit upgrade."
Why not just wait until Windows 7 SP2 arrive? Windows XP is not as good Linux, or OSX, but it's better then any "beta operating system".
As it happens Win7's looking pretty good to me. It's now what I use for my desktop OS (partly because I know I'll have to support it soon enough), and I'd now consider it as an alternative to XP. I understand that Dell will be asked to supply PCs (to my org) with either XP or Win7, (as opposed to XP or Vista) pretty soon...
Oh, yadda yadda yadda my OS is better than yours etc. Do you know how much I care about that sort of argument? Do you know how much the (real) world cares about that sort of artgument?
Oh arse
I downloaded Win7 x64 RTM from MSDN the day it came out. Next morning before work, I burnt the dvd. Started the install, clicked next 3 times. It said it was starting. Went off to work, came home, entered in my cd-key, entered in my password, there's my desktop, EVERYTHING worked like a charm. All drivers/etc. And by "worked", I mean I didn't have to restart my computer for 2 weeks because there were no problems with any of my games/apps/drivers.
P.S. I was using Vista x64 and I have no idea how long the install took since it ran unattended while I was at work.
You can mark me a 'troll' all you want. The truth is, that is exactly how each and every single one of my Linux install experiences have been.
Hell, I can link you to my last two threads on the Ubuntu forums and you can see that everything I've said is true.
But this is SlashDot so, clearly, I'm a troll.
> Upgrading Windows is just asking for trouble.
Let me fix that.... - "Windows is just trouble."
no compiler
It comes with no less than 4 compilers. VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, and VC++. It probably also comes with F# and J# but I'm too lazy to check.
.NET Framework 3.5 installed will have these compilers. Their existence is a requirement of the framework itself.
Just to be clear, anything with the
As far as the scripting languages you listed.. I can think of 2 scripting languages it comes with off the top of my head (javascript and vbscript) and no, this doesnt mean within internet explorer. These are requirements of the Windows Scripting Host.
As for apache.. are you on fucking crack? You don't give apache to your fucking grandparents. Ever.
But hey.. thanks for playing the spew-your-ignorance game for us. We knew it was coming. Didn't know it would be you. But it is what it is.
"His name was James Damore."