I preordered Windows 7 back in May and had it sent to my house on the Jersey Shore and my dad is going to have to bring it to me at college (I have no car at the moment). So until then, could the CN community kindly tell tales of Windows 7 and whether it lives up to its hype?

According to an article I read, there's going to be numerous patches and such to be installed in the months following the release so I'll just wait 'till all that's done.

Just found that it'll cost me $7 to upgrade my laptop to W7 Update. I'll definitely look into it...

Last time i checked it was just an OS.

I wanna get it, but I think I'll wait a few months.

I'll probably not for maybe a while.

Bought Vista a while back and then ended up preferring my old XP.

Still using XP, by the way. And I have no complaints.

Same here! XP ftw!

^This. Heard from some of the blokes at work that downloaded a beta (I think) and they said its brilliant. Let us all know mate eh.

7 has XP-mode.

The student DL version sucked (i.e. was broken) but someone figured out how to turn it into an .iso so it's fine I guess. Going to install later today.

I liked vista, I think this is a step in the right direction. the task-bar is a nice idea.

I'm more excited about karmic/helena though.

I've been using 7 for about two weeks now, and i love it. It's faster imo, smoother, and seems a lot nicer than Vista, and I liked Vista.

My CS and SE roommates love it as well.

Ewww... Vista.


Yes, as a Ubuntu user, I am looking forward to Karmic.

7 is however, far superior to Vista and about on-par with XP in some aspects, superior in others.

Apple already came out with their anti-Windows 7 commercial, that was quick.

Link?

Sure http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W8d7EyFSrs

still haven't decided on who's doing a better advertising job.

Wow.. because Mac OSes never have any problems. This is why they have never had to update it or patch it or make new operating systems.
They really do have the douchiest advertisers in the world.

Also, I'll have Windows 7 Ultimate x64 in about 19 hours. Prepare for the incredible review I will post then.

Release day: The store I work at sold 4 copies. I know at least 3 staff members are going to "acquire" it as well.



I hate those stupid ads.

Just installed 7 Ultimate.

Let me say that it is already a vast improvement.

Can't really see any point in me upgrading from Vista x64 to be honest.

I can. Vista x64 SUCKS!

Probably does if your computer also does. When you have enough memory to run it then it's fine. Then again I don't use backward $@! programs created in '99, or peripherals that have similarly been created a fair while back, so I've never had compatibility issues or driver issues. Then again after using it for just over a year now, I've not had any problems with it.

No, XP x64 sucked. Vista's 64 bit forray was quite good.


Exactly. That and the Cisco VPN. Other than that, just about every vendor has 64 bit support, and any computer that's at all up to date should be able to run it no problem. It's also amazingly stable.

I rather enjoyed seeing Apple on the defensive with their anti-Win7 commercial. Not a position they do well in.

I enjoy most Apple commercials because I can laugh at how pathetic most of them are.

I have been using the full retail version of Windows 7 Professional 64-bit for 2 months now due to involvement in the MSDN Academic Alliance, and yes, it does live up to the hype, if not surpasses it by a bit.

Compared to Vista 64 Home Professional, my laptop uses 1/3 less memory at idle, slight decrease in processor usage overall, much faster boot/log-in times, fewer hang-ups (I think I've seen it hang up briefly on something twice in those two months), ease of use is improved, XP Mode/Windows Virtual PC (available only on Professional and Ultimate) is probably one of the better virtualization set-ups I've used. I've had zero compatability issues, and so far it runs better than any prior Windows OS I've ever worked with (going back to 3.1).

Oooh, now I'm all excited.

Macs are like farts, you feel good when you order them, but once you notice all you can do is surf the internet and edit pictures, you feel embarrassed.

Lol, I have yet to see Apple defending their OS in their advertisements. The only reason why Mac doesn't have as much security problems as the Window is because they have much less users, meaning less hackers and computer infection creators bothering Mac, resulting in less amount of bug exploit/infection reports and patching.

I'm looking forward to it. A pal of mine has been running it for some time now, apparently, and he says that it runs well.

Also, avatar is apparently officially relevant.

I agree with this. I'm running Vista x64 on my laptop and I am extremely pleased with it. Only issue I've had is that once a update from Microsoft resulted it a blue screen of death on occasion but they quickly fixed it. Before and after that it has been 100% reliable and I've been very happy with it.

I have a friend who has been hunting for mac versions of all the game that he loves to play on my PC. He didn't find any of them.

Macsoft FTW.

Lol. I ran Vista 32 on my !@#$ty laptop with some noticeable lag. Switched back because I just like XP better...but only program I ever had a problem with was TI's software for my TI-83+...which didn't even matter since I never really used that program anyway. Anyway, I'm seriously considering installing Windows 7 on my work laptop, which is much, much faster than this 4+ year old laptop. Or on my desktop when I get around to building one.

Driver Signature Enforcement is the only really major thing I dislike about my Vista x64 Ultimate.

Does anyone know if there's a risk of programs I have on Vista not being 7 compatible when I upgrade?


So, is it just me or does my computer think that I am using both a 32 and 64 bit OS and am trying to upgrade to both a 32 and 64 bit OS?

I have yet to find anything short of one or two sidebar gadgets with issues. Even if there was a problem, the compatibility stuff in 7 is improved over Vista, and some versions have the ability to run an XP virtual machine built in.

Pretty sure I heard someone mention that there is a "Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor" which is able to tell you if programs/drivers/etc will work.

Daemon Tools doesn't work and some programs say they didn't install right but work perfectly fine (mIRC, HOI3). All of my programs (sans daemon tools) work perfectly fine. On the topic of programs, you can actually totally disable/uninstall Internet Explorer on this.

Also, my friend pirated Ultimate AIO Activated from TPB and got the same error. I don't know if it's a pirate-only version (and I'm not going to ask you) but if you have a 64-bit Vista and trying to upgrade with an all-in-one version it might be going "loldongs".

Thanks. The installation linked to it.


The compatibility thing says that Daemon Tools Pro will work for the x64 version, but not x32.

Yeah, it turns out that since the iso is sketchy and includes 32 and 64 versions on it, it freaks out when you try to upgrade from 64 to 64. I'll have to get a 64 only version.

Really? Damn.

And that's what I thought. AIO doesn't seem like the best idea for a torrent to me in the first place.

Yup. The only thing on my laptop it said wouldn't work was the fingerprint scanner...which I don't even have...

They'll pry XP from my cold, dead hands!

But I was amused by Gizmodo's roundup of professional reactions to 7. Perhaps politics has broken me down, but if reminded me of the general reactions to Obama after Bush.

/which makes Cult of Mac the equivalent of Rush Limbaugh?
//sorry for making this all boiler roomish

I love Windows 7. It runs great, feels faster than XP in my opinion (with 4GB of RAM), looks nice, and the new task bar is quite practical. I haven't found any compatibility problems at all yet, everything I wanted to run was fine, including Daemon Tools. I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

Anyone else having problems with google chrome freezing every five seconds on Windows 7 Professional 32 bit.

I've [url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/desktop/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220900748&subSection=News]read[/u] claims that windows 7 can increase battery life. Any difference noticed from the users here over past operating systems?

I think it can increase battery life when compared to Vista, since it uses less CPU and RAM resources iirc

Basically it right there.