fyi
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 For the last year or so, 99.9% of the problems associated with Vista have been due to misinformation or outdated public perception.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.
Awesome! Can’t wait to never buy it!
This one will work, we promise!
— Microsoft.
Forget it. I’m sticking with Windows XP Professional until it melts. Windows 7 is going to be crap just like Vista is.
There must be something wrong with me. I have three machines, two Dell desktops and one Toshiba laptop running Vista and no problems. What have I done wrong? Based on all the negativity here about Vista I have to be doing something terribly wrong. Whatever should I do?
My needs are pretty simple, I like to play games on my PC, and I like to mod those games. Since Vista is nothing but trouble for gaming, and essentially makes modding a pain in the ass because it protects program files and can’t do anything with .rar files, I’ll never use it. If their next OS has the same features, I won’t use it either. I have my XP disc, and as far as I am concerned, it is priceless.
I had believed all the hype that vista was a piece of crap.
This Christmas I wanted to get some kids I know a second computer. My goal was to get an XP machine but you can’t do that anymore apparently unless you go to a mom and pop computer store where they build it for you, or you actually pay for the “upgrade/downgrade” to XP.
So I ended up with a Lenovo desktop with Vista Home Premium, 3GB or RAM, 320 GB HD and the usual other HW/SW throwins. Cost me $400. Got an offbrand 20” flat screen monitor for another $100.
This machine is just fine. It’s fast, it’s intuitive, it’s very multi-media aware and it worked just fine right out of the box.
The only issue was an already owned HP all-in-one network printer. The CD wouldn’t install because it was vista, but a trip to HP’s website allowed me to get the right Vista driver and it was up and running in no time.
YMMV, but I was impressed, and I have to say I felt a little stupid believing all the hype instead of investigating for myself.