Winduhs...
Posted on 01/10/2009 6:29:49 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
Microsoft servers got quite a workout on Friday from potential testers as the company opened public beta testing of Windows 7 to a broad audience– so much so, in fact, that the company decided to delay the beta's opening until it can bring more servers online.
"Due to very heavy traffic we’re seeing as a result of interest in the Windows 7 Beta, we are adding some additional infrastructure support to the Microsoft.com properties before we post the public beta," said a posting on The Windows Blog at around 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Friday afternoon. It included a promise to get the beta servers up and running as quickly as possible.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced on Wednesday night that beta test of Windows 7 would be broadened to the general public on Friday. It was made available to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers on Wednesday.
Additionally, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) executives have planned a public beta with at least 2.5 million participants. However, apparently they didn't expect everyone to try to get in at once.
"It's starting to look almost like a land rush," said Michael Cherry, operating system analyst at Directions on Microsoft, told InternetNews.com.
As to where to look when the broad public beta is open for business, at press time, a Microsoft spokesperson said the company is referring users to The Windows Blog.
Anyone have the short-quick feature list for Windows 7?
Very cool. Upgraded a machine yesterday.
Winduhs...
They already knew they had to replace vista (ME the new voyages).
That is why they have rushed Windows 7 out two years early.
I updated an Office product yesterday and was wondering why took so long.
I fought with one of those the other day; ended up wiping Vista and installing XP again.
Didn’t Vista just come out not more than 2 years ago, and already its obsoleted by this new thing? It seems Microsoft is making a new OS every year until they finally get one right. What a laugh. There’s no coincidence that MSNBC can’t report news and Microsoft can’t create an operating system.
Bought a new computer with Vista last month and don't find the operating system to be too different from XP. File system defaults weren't to my liking, but everything can be customized. I'm using a 64bit version and so far all my favorite programs, graphics stuff mainly, have installed and run just fine. It seems to play nice with everything I used with XP.
Of course, having 8GB of RAM doesn't hurt. So far so good.
I started with WordStar on an Osborne (and later a KayPro), then WordStar on a PC, then WordPerfect on a PC and most recently Word.
I’ve been using Vista on three machines for a year and a half with no problems. Is there a good reason to upgrade to Windows 7? What does it do that Vista doesn’t do?
It isn’t early - it is back on the stated release schedule. It was Vista that was extremely late.
I think many who tried Vista and rejected it didn’t realize that the file structure is highly customizable. Or that the default security settings could be turned off or adjusted to suit the user’s needs. Microsoft did a very poor job of explaining Vista to the average user. The product itself is significantly better than XP.
Okay, I'm ready to use WordStar! :-)
I loved WordStar, but WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS became "The Standard" everywhere for such a very long time.
Then everyone began to downgrade to Word.
...that, and the bloated overhead getting even worse.
Wordstar was my first word processor. I was the first at my university to write a dissertation with a word processor and that in itself was controversial. Funny to look back on those times.
Memory is extremely cheap so it is not an issue.
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