My reward for selling half of my soul to Microsoft. It's my early (and free) copy of Windows 7 Ultimate along with my Windows 7 "Party Pack" My copy of Ultimate. Fully legit and working. Street date is October 22. It has both 32 and 64-bit versions. The Party Pack: It has Windows 7 bags, playing cards, napkins, balloons, streamers, a table "centerpiece," and some discount offers.
Thats cool! I have been playing with it since the RTM date (officially had it on my companys ftp server the 10th of august) very nice OS. The party pack is pretty sweet, I want one too, haha.
I'm guessing that means if we got copies purchased on the dev site we can go download them now? I haven't been on there in a while. That and I don't have any legit Vista keys to "upgrade" with at the moment (I got a win7 3pack of upgrades)
ive had windows 7 business since the middle of september its quite a mean machine i tell ya how you likin it?
Yeah, I've been testing the7 RTM Enterprise at work for awhile now. I like it . Also put in to production a few Server 2008 R2 box's, which have performed very well. 7 is not much different then Vista, but a few more GUI improvements, as well as a drastically improved UAC (maybe now everyone won't just turn it off ). My "upgraded from Vista" tests have not been nearly as snappy as my fresh 7 installs, so beware anyone planning to do an "upgrade" vs a fresh install.
Seriously guys, I've had windows 7 since 2001. Anyway...what's so great about it? XP has never left me wishing for more. Well, except for the whole virus thing, but that's not as annoying as vista.
I am running Windows 7 Tiny on my work computer. It runs flawlessly and doesn't skip a beat. Though it does hate Digsby! That party pack is pretty bitchin'!
I installed win 7 starter in my mini 9, and seriously I think it was less than 30 minutes and it was up and running. 2 clicks and it was on my home network, everything configured properly. By far the easiest os to set up. It is also much faster than osx on my mini 9. Russ
I am waiting for my copy... so Nate is it a real pain to install it as an upgrade, as opposed to fresh install, cause I dont want to lose all my settings and files etc...
Microsoft can suck expletives. They fired my brother's entire division to farm it out overseas for people willing to work for literally $3 USD/hour. **** Microsoft.
I've been running 7 Beta, and then RC1, bu this is the full RTM version, totally legit for free. All I had to do was sign up and get selected to throw a "Windows 7 House Party." That's the soul-selling part.
Ok, I'm all set for the 22nd then. I've got 2 Win7Pro and 1 Win7Ultimate coming. I have to say it feels dirty to be excited for a Microsoft release. But this makes my aging OS woes with XP and my utter distaste for Vista feel justified. I still have some Win7 Beta keys and such if anyone wants them.
The RC release keys are good till June 2010. Some time in March they will shut your system off every 2 hours. So they are good for a little while longer. I have a few more thing I need to move onto my server and I am doing my ultimate install. I have been running the RC since its release and everything is working great, so the full install of the 64 bit os and call it a day. I have had 1 glitch running win 7 64 bit, and it was so small that I don't even care. M$ fixed all the Java and Flash issues since the release of the RC, so everything is good. Russ
I have a HP e9120y running vista home premium... I am getting a free upgrade to windows 7... waiting for its arrival later this month though... I hated vista but now I am used to it and like it... I miss things on XP like the powertoy add ons for resizing pics, but other than that its not bad...
Yup, MS has never offered "two version" upgrades, and won't start now (FYI, I'm talking about the installation procedure here, not the licensing aspect). Also, on anything but a new dual/quad core machine, I'd 100% recommend a fresh install anyway.
Yes. To do a upgrade from XP it would really be considered a clean install. So you will have to move everything valuable off of your system and do a clean install if you are going from XP. But really, at this point in time, if you have a system that can run 64 bit, you should. And don't even try comparing it to running xp or vista 64 bit. I tried them both and ran into sooooo many problems. Win 7 64 bit, not a problem yet. Russ
Hrm, never ran XP 64, but I've been running Vista x64 on my gaming machine at home for about a year and a half now without any problems, although I waited to install until after Vista SP1 was released, which I've been told fixed a large number of issues. Anyway, as 7 is really just a facelift of Vista, I expect it to have many many less driver, hardware, and software related issues.
hmmmm...it will be interesting to see how my company handles this, as well as the many other businesses that never went to vista. You don't think MS will offer corporate customers some sort of upgrade tool?
Our company recommended skipping Vista entirely, but we will be starting to recommend Windows 7 as it begins shipping on new hardware. I got my hands on a valid Server 08 R2 Ent. key. I just need to get my hands on a 500GB or better external to backup my raid so I can wipe my server 08 install that never quite worked right anyway. Win 7 (x64, Ultimate) has been working quite well on my desktop for a month or so. I'm sorta miffed that I still can't get a printer driver for my HP personal laser.
I've been running it for work since the day that the RTM was released. It's given me very few problems, and in generally I find it to be much better than Vista. There's a nasty bug with the .NET that causes issues with vmWare's infrastructure client (which is one of my most heavily used tools), but there's a workaround for it. In all it's a lot less painful than the move from XP to Vista was, by orders of magnitude. I've also got 2 2008 R2 Servers in production and other than it being a bit more of a resource user than plain 2008 server, it's quite nice (you can run a basic 2008 server, like a small AD-only server with 512MB of memory, but R2 really needs at least 1GB)
Blame HP. They've been like this for a long time. If it's a consumer level product, the support will pretty much be for the main OS at the time of the product release, with maybe one update if the timing is such that the product is still being sold when a new version comes out. If it's a business product, it depends on how high up the scale it is. I really like working with HP's full-on business class stuff, but I have to say that on the home-user level they're not nearly as nice to deal with. (For instance, I love HP's business class laptops, but the 8510w I'm typing this on goes for like $2,500. If you buy a sub $1k HP/Compaq laptop, it's pretty much going to be a POS, but if you bought an equivalent Toshiba, it'll probably be a solid unit).
Students are eligible to download Windows 7 home premium for $29.99 at this Microsoft website. www.win741.com You can also order Office 2007 for $59.95.
I'm also running windows 7 (x64, pro). Only thing I'm still trying to get used to is the task bar and pinning. Not sure how I feel about it. Other then that it's been very smooth. Bullwinkle: I did turn off UAC right away. I hate being asked if i really want to go into the control panel every time I click in there.
