girseyb Posted August 1, 2009 Report Share Posted August 1, 2009 i have been using windows 7 for a few months now, i must say i think it is brilliant, i have even installed it on my nc10 netbook and i reckon it is faster than xp.it's stable(never crashed yet) runs everything. a breath of fresh air after the bloater vista debacle(i know i was a microsoft beta tester for vista) any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pooks Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Not running it at the moment but I have done. Certainly a big improvement over Vista. I doubt whether Microsoft has finally made a stable OS or not though. I am going to reserve judgement until the masses start using it. Stumbled across a photo of you the other day girseyb. BTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 From Tech Republic Microsoft has launched a marketing campaign extolling the benefits of the soon-to-be-released Windows 7 that mimics the cheesy infomercials of late-night television fame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibber Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 ^Incredibly awful advert. This is now cheap for students with a UK .ac email address http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/studentoffer/default.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordanKZ Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Those adverts couldn't be any worse... As for the OS? I've been running it for about 6 months now, both the in pre-beta, beta and I've been running the release candidate for a while now. I can basically report that its: Solid as a rock in terms of stability, the UI is actually fantastic and coming to work and having to use XP feels like a massive step back, it runs basically the same on my 1.6ghz Atom netbook as my Core 2 Duo 3.4ghz (Over clocked to all hell..) desktop. Not to mention during the pre orders you could buy a copy for £49, which is awesome. Only downside is, i'll have to format my PC at the end of the month to install it . Basic jist is though, it's probably the best Windows OS i've used since Windows 2000, and tha'ts saying something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibber Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Only downside is, i'll have to format my PC at the end of the month to install it . Can you multiboot the upgrade onto another partition as a full install? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordanKZ Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Only downside is, i'll have to format my PC at the end of the month to install it . Can you multiboot the upgrade onto another partition as a full install? Yeah I could but tbh, my machine could do with it. And any files I want to keep I'll just move them over to a NAS or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sga Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 I have been using Windows 7 for a few months now. Have it dual booting with vista but since I installed Win 7 I have never gone back to vista. I find it a massive improvemnt over vista, i dont think it has ever crashed and this computer is sometimes on for many days at a time. I have had no issues with any drivers and all my software games etc seem to work fine, basically if it worked on vista it will work on Windows 7. I have heard that it does have some issues with creative soundcards but I'm sure they will be ironed out when the retail version arrives. The version I got was free to download and will continue to work untill next summer before I will have to pay for a copy which I will be doing as this seems to be microsofts best OS for while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted October 23, 2009 Report Share Posted October 23, 2009 Bought --- yes bought --- Windows 7 Ultimate yesterday - got it today and installed on laptop partition. So far ... I'd like to say miles better, not least that my bridged graphics cards now don't keep f'in up! which was an issue from day one with this laptop with Windows Vista. Totally reminds me of KDE to be honest! I blame Adobe for making me buy this f'in OS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMe Posted October 24, 2009 Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 Only thing you need to be aware of is that it seems to take forever before the installation process gets going (or at least it did on my machine). Once installed it is good and much faster than XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filskadacat Posted October 24, 2009 Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 All you clever computer people are able to discuss the technical ins and outs and understand each other, which is great. But if any of us less advanced and currently bereft of student sons are reading this, I found this article to be quite interesting:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8317005.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted October 24, 2009 Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 i have windows vista on both computers. being tight what for the thickos like me are the improvements over vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted October 24, 2009 Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 The most significant I'd say is that it's overall footprint is quite small compared to Vista. Imagine back to XP and think that Vista never happened - then you have the 'new' upgraded XP that's all flashy looking and tiptop. Not bogged down in Vista sucking the life out of every available resource. I've read in various places that organisations migrating to Windows 7 are able now to give their hardware at least another couple of years life i.e. their current hardware is being used more effectively now. A particularly poignant story was of a school IT Officer in England somewhere now being able to use his budget not on replacing the schools computers with newer hardware, but upgrade to Win7 and have enough budget left over for other teaching materials. A particularly warming story. For me on this laptop Vista never cut it. Vendor lockin with OEM Vista and graphics driver issues from the outset. The card manufacturers drivers would conflict also and crash all the time. Now I've got Win7 onboard I can get the manufacturers drivers functioning as they should and the thing is absolutley flying.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted October 24, 2009 Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filskadacat Posted October 24, 2009 Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 Imagine back to XP and think that Vista never happened For me on this laptop Vista never cut it. So for those of us on limited resources and using computers as a tool rather than as a source of interest in their own right - rather like its nice to drive a decent car but I don't give two hoots what technical details make it decent - is it worth at the moment wondering about moving from XP to W7? Fortunately the IT manager at our school refused to have anything to do with Vista at all so everything I work with runs on XP - when I treated myself to a laptop last year so I could carry on working in the garden and on trains I carefully searched online to find one with XP on it, as all those in the shops had Vista. I think I can do everything I want to do - would it just be the case that with W7 I could perhaps do it faster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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