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What To Expect From Windows 7 SP1
snydeq writes "The first inklings of a public Windows 7 SP1 beta program are beginning to emerge, with hidden registry keys and a leaked list of post-RTM build numbers surfacing on the Web. 'Beyond the obvious bug fixes and security patches, we'll no doubt see support for the new USB 3.0 standard. Likewise, enhancements to the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi stacks will be slipstreamed in, allowing Windows 7 to retain its mantle as the most easily configured version ever,' writes InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy. 'But perhaps the most significant "update" to come out of Service Pack 1 will be the fact that it exists at all, and that by delivering it to market Microsoft will be signaling that it is now OK for IT shops to pull the trigger on their Windows 7 deployments.'"
When I was a kid, we'd take a trip every summer down the Mississippi to visit my auntie in her antebellum house. She'd always play a trick on me that even today I play on my kids and their friends.
Pull my finger.
It seems like yesterday that I was installing Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups) on all the computers in my house. Nowadays, these newfangled operating systems update themselves with their service packs and hotfixes and whatnot.
I'll tell you, just like pulling my finger, pulling the trigger on Windows 7 is something that everyone wants to do. Unfortunately for them, the outcome is the same.
It stinks.
Testing Windows 7 release candidates indicated it was good for deployment on release day for a good number of people and businesses. You probably need to stop hanging out with geek squad 'techies.'
I've had more crashes with Windows 7 in the two months that I've had it than in the entire 4 years I ran the Windows XP box it replaced. Not a single blue screen, just *poof* and it's gone. I've had to replace my 9 month old wireless router with a "Windows 7 compatible" version because of continuous disconnects. Every single piece of hardware in my machine is "designed for Windows 7" and I still crash every couple weeks and have to reboot at least once a week. The audio pops, the interface gets into a state where you can't bring a window to the front, and networking is unreliable at best.
I went in expecting problems and it surely didn't disappoint. I still love it and I think the UI improvements are great, but driver support is seriously lacking and it is definitely not business ready. I've wasted close to 40 hours and $300 working around the network related issues alone. Sounds like you need to hang around with people who know the difference between "yeah, it boots" and actual regression testing.
I'm interested to see Windows 7's USB performance with an upgrade to USB v3. While I am still on XP myself, I am definitely underwhelmed by Windows' ability to transfer large amounts of data via USB. I just had to back up a bunch of stuff (25G) this past Friday and, since I was already logged into Windows and was feeling lazy, I decided to just do that from Windows. It took 5 hours to transfer the files and this was a USB2 drive plugged into a USB2 port. When I later copied the same data back, I did it while logged into Linux (Fedora 11, specifically) and it only took 20 minutes. I've had the same experience transferring files to a USB1 drive plugged into a USB2 port: 15G transferred to that drive in 17 minutes in Linux, but Windows was telling me it was going to take something on the order of 23 hours! I concede that I have not attempted this experiment with Windows 7 at all, yet (No one I know has it).
Son, you won't ever bed a girl with that attitude.
Actually, many straight girls dumb themselves down or change their behavior to avoid scaring off the men (or attract them, for that matter). Last week I had a friend over with me and my girlfriend and we watched movies and TV episodes all night. I bartered a back rub for my girlfriend in exchange for a foot rub. So we puppy-piled on the couch, sipped some tea and enjoyed a sensual evening. This wouldn't happen with guys around because they'd all get stiffies and have to make a comment and thereby ruin the entire point. The conversation was also quite a bit more frank, open, and topical than it otherwise would have been.
The internet is assumed by default to be a mixed group, and only in very specific ways and places do women express themselves openly and honestly on it -- mostly because of exactly the kind of behavior you just pointed out. If I didn't have such a stubborn passion for science and technology, I would have given up on this line of work years ago because of it. Every few months I still think about quitting and going into a more woman-friendly environment. I stay in it because the money's good and I don't want to be the stereotypical cash-starved lesbian. Making more than $25k a year in this community is nearly an act of heroism...
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
No, I expect you to replace the $50k piece of equipment because it interfaces with a card that uses a motherboard connector that has been obsolete for 15 years, and hasn't appeared in new computers for 10 years.
The software support lifetime isn't the only thing you need to be concerned about.
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
Ha, ha, ha, Vista? What is that, never heard of that before? You mean XP SP2 right?
Fucking tool.