Windows 7

[Thannatos]

wow guys I just installed windows 7 beta and it blows vista out of the water you guys have to try it, if you don't know how to do the install of how to get the file go here http://tr.im/r5g

[SHIFT_COUPE]

It certainly is promising. I've been testing it out for about a week now on a spare machine at work.

[Thannatos]

you can register it for a year using a vista beta and release candidate code which is pretty sweet

[losenone]

Much MUCH MUCH more responsive then Vista. Installed it on Virtualbox using a gig of ram and single core and its pretty damn quick.

[Thannatos]

yea except it does not want to maintain a wifi connection with my rtl8187b, i swear this card has problems on every os out there

[losenone]

NDISwrapper ftw!

[spockrock]

NDISwrapper ftw!

Yeah but NDISwrapper the last time I looked worked on *nix operating systems. That being said I haven't tried, it I have vista ultimate it runs ok, but *nix > windows.

[Thannatos]

actually i fixed it its that homegroups was messing with it, and ndiswrapper is useless now since the rtl8187b is natively supported in the newest kernel which happens to be ubuntu 8.10 which i also have installed

[Andries]

Thread RESURECTION!!!!

This is now available as of Today as a RC (Release Candidate) I plan on putting it on my laptop for the next year or so. Gotta go buy some dvd's for the backup iso!

http://www.microsoft.com/windo....aspx

[stsxcrle]

ah, I didn't check the post date of Thannatos's post and was like wtf how did everyone have time to download and install it already?

Thoughts/impressions of the RC?

[Andries]

ah, I didn't check the post date of Thannatos's post and was like wtf how did everyone have time to download and install it already?

Thoughts/impressions of the RC?

I got as far as to download the 3 gig file - that finished by the time I woke up this morning...i have slow interwebs...backed up my laptop...gonna give it a whirl this afternoon after work hopefully.

I'm moving from vista to 7 rc and will report back any issues/experiences I have with it.

[stsxcrle]

installed last night. Been installins apps tonight. I went with kaspersky 8 technical preview for A/V firewall, so far no problems with anything and I like it.

Some quirks though:

multiple windows are grouped immediately by default, haven't played with the settings here, but I don't like that for all windows.

I like to have a "my computer" toolbar across the top of the desktop and it doesn't appear I can do this like I would in XP.

[SHIFT_COUPE]

RC is wonderful!

[Andries]

Well I got mine downloaded and all setup. Didn't get much time to mess with it.

But I really like it - the install took a bit, but I just did an upgrade and it seems like all my music, pictures, videos, etc. all retained and work properly in 7.

I like that you can choose different themes, and that also includes it changes the window color to match the different picture.

I have nothing bad to say about this version of windows....so let's cross our fingers because it's sure blowing Vista out of the water for me!

[losenone]

I have the RC running on my main desktop, runs like a dream! Faster then XP ever did.