Posted on 04/24/2009 6:57:38 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Microsoft Corp said on Friday a version of its long awaited Windows 7 operating system will be made available from next week. The version, known as a 'release candidate', or RC, essentially means the world's largest software company is in the final stages of completing the operating system, the successor to the unpopular Windows Vista. Microsoft said the RC will be available for download by program developers and IT professionals subscribing to the MSDN and TechNet networks on April 30 and available more broadly on May 5. The company has still not said when the finished version would begin to be installed on PCs or available to buy in shops, but the company's chief financial officer said on Thursday it could be as early as July. That would allow Microsoft to capitalise on back-to-school sales and set it up for a strong holiday shopping season.
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BS. I have several XP licenses and will be milking them for a good long time. One of them will run on a VM from within Linux Mint. Windows 7? No thanks.
I actually manually set everything, lol. I suppose that’s why I never have an issue.
“Considering how rough Vista was, and since 7 is essentially the non-beta Vista, it ought to be released as a service pack with a giant “We’re very sorry” attached to it. Instead, it looks like we’re going to have to buy this one too.”
Yes, when Microsoft eventually goes under the volume of cheering will be second only to the demise of the New York Times.
The Windows 7 "Homegroup" function will definitely only work with other Windows 7 machines. But, I tried for two days to get my wife's Vista laptop and my daughters' xp laptops to either map to a Windows 7 drive or to share the printer with no luck - very frustrating.
All the others starting with CP/M 25 years ago, then Windows 3.1, etc. took an awful effort to learn, master and tame.
You can give your grandmother Windows 7 and she'll figure it out right away.
It doesn't piss me off. Plus, it never seems to crash.
I'll do a clean install next week and have a better idea about the actual mechanics of Windows 7 networking.
That's my problem. I built a new machine and went ahead and installed Windows 7 as a fresh install. I upgraded my new(ish) laptop to Windows 7, and my desktop and laptop talk to each other very easily with the Homegroup function. It's just my family's legacy machines that are giving me grief.
I'm on firefox now, don't really like it but it's better for me than IE7. IE6 was just fine, I liked it.
Unlike Windows Vista, Windows 7 has far better performance optimization, so good that it can even run reasonably fast on netbook computers with 1 GB of RAM, Intel Atom CPU, and 160 GB hard drive. I can imagine what Windows 7 would be like on a machine with a real Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, or Core i7 CPUs....
It's interesting that you mention image editing. I've read in some of the tech forums that Windows 7 is giving people problems who use some of these professional image editing programs. It's probably wise that you don't upgrade, not at least until W7 SP1 comes out.
No. IE6 isn’t fine, was never fine, will never be fine. It should be wiped off the face of the earth - It has set the web back several years.
Now excuse me why I go cry in the corner thinking about the trouble of getting sites to look correctly in IE6.
:)
I just ran system restore, got IE 6 back. I can use firefox if needed. All my sites look just fine. As I said, I have different requirements.
With a good edit program in the $600.00 range, and up, I don’t want to start over.
Aren’t most of those problems related to those who pirated their copy?
Would something like paint.net do what you need it to?
P.S. They do this in the Puget Sound area.
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