7 days until Windows 7...

[MrGrumpy]

I`ve been running Vista and Win 7 (dodgy edition). Vista IMO was a nightmare on this laptop, its a Dell ( pile of poo TBH ) but quite frequently the raid HD setup would just trash itself. However using Win 7 its been great, however i`ve decided to be brave and ditch windows altogethor. My WOW playing days are numbered ( too much time online ) and thus windows is not a must and if needed I`ll run it in virtual box on the linux host. However in all honesty Win 7 is a cracking release, vista IMO is the same as windows ME, useless.

 

[Norm]

My WOW playing days are numbered...

NOOOOO!!!! Surely not. Ditch Windoze but not WoW, never.

Don't suppose you are on Darkspear, are you?

 

[MrGrumpy]

funnily enough I am

I`ve got a Lock called Bigal, who is just a killing machine

 

[HJ]

Two days to the release of Ubuntu 9.10 The Karmic Koala...

 

[MrGrumpy]

just tried the beta, worked ok on live cd, even wireless worked out the box, but crashed when I did an update ( just tried for the fun of it tho ) will maybe just download the release or is it easy enough to update from the beta to full release?

 

[Norm]

funnily enough I am

Well, that's a coincidence. You have a PM.

 

[CopperBrompton]

The thing with Win 7 is that it is not so much a new OS it is more like Vista SP3

It's true that Win7 is what Vista should have been, but it's certainly not true that Win7 is Vista SP3 - it has been largely coded completely independently.

 

[rh100]

It's true that Win7 is what Vista should have been, but it's certainly not true that Win7 is Vista SP3 - it has been largely coded completely independently.

That's curious, as the RC version is version 6.1, opposed to Vista being v6 - this suggests the kernel being the same? Has it changed on the RTM version? (run winver from the search box in the start menu.

I'm not saying it's just sp3 for vista though - but not a great leap as far as I can see.

 

[rh100]

Some good gesture effects in Win7

Saw this on the TV advert and just tried it out
Drag an open window to the right or left - until you see a highlight on the screen - it will snap the window to that side - so do that to 2 windows and it puts them side by side - using equal amounts of screen.

Another weird one - click and hold the title bar, then shake the mouse a couple of times - any open windows behind that one will minimize, do it again and they come back.

Any others?

 

[Ghost Donkey]

The thing with Win 7 is that it is not so much a new OS it is more like Vista SP3. Vista has been around for a couple of years now, and Win 7 is really Vista as it should have been with the bugs to be ironed out. The change of name is more due to the unpopularity of Vista. I suspect that if there isn't a major move to Win 7 within the next year, Microsoft will simple stop all support for XP...

We (my more knowledgeable colleagues really ) were testing the various versions of the vista betas at work as they came out and the bugs they found early on were just not dealt with. Our director who was keen to "move forward" on a quick time scale was shown the problems and agreed very quickly not to move at all. Windows seven looks more likely. I doubt XP support will be withdrawn too soon. Even if it is Microsoft may offer support at a chargeable rate in the same way they did for windows 2000.

As for home use 'll be sticking with Ubuntu and XP dual booted.

 

[yenrod]

I put win.7 on my lappy and it turns out that Fujitsu-Siemens dont do a wlan driver to support it !

So I ended up with vista.ultimate.

 

[CopperBrompton]

Won't the Intel driver work?

 

[yenrod]

I put win.7 on my lappy and it turns out that Fujitsu-Siemens dont do a wlan driver to support it !

So I ended up with vista.ultimate.

Won't the Intel driver work?

No, found out that FS don't even support XP on my lap. either...

So am stuck with 'vista goodness' folks...

 

[Rezillo]

Apparently Citrix hasn't been tested with Windows 7 yet, so may cause problems for home workers.

It worked ok in Firefox with the Win 7 release candidate I was running since June and also works on the final version I now have, so shouldn't be a problem.

John

 

[Downward]

I have just installed it.

Like it so far.