Posted on 12/29/2008 8:33:18 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I have to thank Santa for leaving me a copy of Windows 7 beta 1 in my stocking for Christmas Day. This beta (build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400) should be the first and only beta from Microsoft of Windows 7, and I’m pleased to report that it’s a good one.
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Judging by the quality of this build, I expect Windows 7 to be released June/July of ‘09. I really can’t see Microsoft dragging out the release a year.
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Just what I want to do on Christmas Day, be a beta tester for Micro$oft.
I bought one too. It’s a Toshiba that comes with 4gb of ram. Not bad. It’s a low end about $650 but I am planning to go back to school and need it. It has Vista Home Premium 64 bit. So far all of my programs run on it.
Windows 7 is NT 6.1 with a newer shade of lipstick and eye candy.
Windows 7 is largely based on Vista. For the last year or so, 99.9% of the problems associated with Vista have been due to misinformation or outdated public perception. The software itself is actually much better than XP. If they shed the Vista moniker, then they can say it’s something different when it really isn’t significantly changed.
From the look of some of the screenshots, Steve Ballmer must use a Mac.
My first experience with windows was 3.1 in a work environment. I was happy to use it with Xcel because I no longer had to complete hand written calculations on a daily basis.
But from 3.1 on crashes were an all too frequent experience.
For my personal machine I have bought my last Windows OS.
I have one of the last Mac Pros and that should work fine for me for several more years.
And bugs, and crappy drivers, and system lag due to bloatware built right into the OS, etc...
Awesome! Can’t wait to never buy it!
ROFL!
I got an HP with an Intel Duo ,320 Gig HDD and all the connections, HDMI and eSATA ...wanted to get a BluRay but decided the price was too much,...even though the Fry’s sales gal said it was on their special laptop ,...floor Demo I got a discount on...
This one will work, we promise!
— Microsoft.
For some reason xD Olympus Media Card crashes the Vista 64 bit. Dell has no fix.
B i n g o !
LOL my first computer was a TRS-80 CoCo with a cassette recorder for storage, and a VideoTex cartridge and a 300baud manual modem.
Any xD card or just the Olympus. I bet it has something to do with their formatting.
I'm jealous. I kind of goofed. I would like to have had a FireWire port but I didn't check. One thing I don't care for is the dynamic RAM for video. You can't set the RAM block for video. I don't know how the PC determines how much ram to put in the video. I may look into a video card for it.
Vista is bad. Not just misinfo. It's threading is iffy, the kernel support isn't there, info and programming guides given out to partners and devs is error prone, feature integration makes simple admin tasks a nightmare. It was bad from the Longhorn Alpha overlay to the inadequately tested RC. It still wasn't passing our WHQL testing at AMD when they launched.
And that's just my short list.
We only have two machines here at my current job that are running Vista. Both are having issues with printing, network apps, interoperability with other app suites, and both had to be re-loaded when MS pushed out that patch that killed AMD based machines by overwriting the wrong *.sys file.
Plus, the new desktop looks like it was designed by someone on prozac.
Have three xD Olympus and three Dells running 64bit. All Blue screen after booting card.
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