anyone got windows 7 yet?

[ManBearPig...]

speak on this.

[Man of Steel]

don't know about this windows 7 thing, but a number of ladies have asked me to hang 8 out my pants window.

[Army of One]

Had it for about a month, love it, anyone here using xp or vista should upgrade ASAP.

[Rami]

Had it for about a month, love it, anyone here using xp or vista should upgrade ASAP.

Can you elaborate?

[Fatpanda]

i have heard good things, and can't wait to install it on my top of the line - most powerful laptop in existence the clevo m980nu 

unfortunately there is a fucking postal strike in the uk, and my microsoft upgrade disc hasn't arrived yet, nor is it likely to in the next few weeks if these strikes continue 

[Bobby]

Can you elaborate?

indeed

it took months after installing vista to get my computer to work the way i wanted,,, don't want to jeopardice that happening again

[Mars]

i get tired of all these new versions, i dont go with the hype.

[acqui]

I've had it for a week and if you've got Vista, it's worth the upgrade. I can see a noticeable difference in speed, reboot time, and just overall simplicity of certain tasks.

[The_Punisher]

Windows 7 is better than Vista, but I'm still considering deploying it on my Network to about 1700 workstations, all the tests I ran through passed so far, so I think it's a go. any OS will behaves differently on a Network than on stand alone, So for anyone considering an upgrade from XP, Win 7 is a way to go.

[Tapeworm]

i get tired of all these new versions, i dont go with the hype.

Everyday I come home and iTunes asks if I want to Install Update?  Install Update?  Install Update?  So I did it just to get it to shut up.  Next day: Install Update?  Pop selling girls.

[_bruce_]

Boycott that shit... same with hardware upgrades...

[Adam11]

Windows 7 is the best windows yet very fast and simple i love it, vista is shit.

[Army of One]

Can you elaborate?

So much smoother, never needs a reboot, the UI is just amazing, new taskbar where shortcuts integrate with running programs is a godsend,running cursor over icon in taskbar shows all open windows in that program, themes like a slideshow as your desktop,wiggling a window closes all other open windows to minimise, dragging a window to left or right side of the screen will cause the window to fill that half of the screen, new search feature that finds any file instantaneously, can tune it so you never get pestered by popups....ever,homegroup allows piss easy setup of network PC's,far less memory hungry than vista, x64 version runs 32 bit apps flawlessly while allowing you to use more than 4GB of memory,native support for touch screens, amazing support for streaming to you from home PC say to your ipod touch while out and about,media centre included is amazing considering its built in and from Microsoft, Windows explorer is great now....completely redesigned and tons more shit I'm probably forgetting.Basically its just so fucking smooth and easy to get things done, you'll wonder how you stuck with xp for so long.

Main thing it just works for 99.9% of people right off the bat, most drivers are included on the install disk so your up and running within 20 mins from formatting and doing a fresh install (no other way IMHO).

[YngiweRhoads]

So much smoother, never needs a reboot, the UI is just amazing, new taskbar where shortcuts integrate with running programs is a godsend,running cursor over icon in taskbar shows all open windows in that program, themes like a slideshow as your desktop,wiggling a window closes all other open windows to minimise, dragging a window to left or right side of the screen will cause the window to fill that half of the screen, new search feature that finds any file instantaneously, can tune it so you never get pestered by popups....ever,homegroup allows piss easy setup of network PC's,far less memory hungry than vista, x64 version runs 32 bit apps flawlessly while allowing you to use more than 4GB of memory,native support for touch screens, amazing support for streaming to you from home PC say to your ipod touch while out and about,media centre included is amazing considering its built in and from Microsoft, Windows explorer is great now....completely redesigned and tons more shit I'm probably forgetting.Basically its just so fucking smooth and easy to get things done, you'll wonder how you stuck with xp for so long.

Main thing it just works for 99.9% of people right off the bat, most drivers are included on the install disk so your up and running within 20 mins from formatting and doing a fresh install (no other way IMHO).

Great overview man. Thanks!

[Bobby]

Great overview man. Thanks!

+1 sounds great

[grab an umbrella]

Windows 7 is better than Vista, but I'm still considering deploying it on my Network to about 1700 workstations, all the tests I ran through passed so far, so I think it's a go. any OS will behaves differently on a Network than on stand alone, So for anyone considering an upgrade from XP, Win 7 is a way to go.

1700 workstations?  Give 7 a year at least bro, let all the kinks get worked out.  We're still running xp on all our workstations, never went with vista. 

Although I'm running gentoo and ubuntu at home.

Unix speed.

[outby43]

1700 workstations?  Give 7 a year at least bro, let all the kinks get worked out.  We're still running xp on all our workstations, never went with vista. 

Although I'm running gentoo and ubuntu at home.

Unix speed.

We have been testing it here at our datacenter and have not had any issues so far.  we have around 2000 clients and most are running XP.  We are supposed to go to Vista but shit I hope not.  Vista sucks and we still have issues with it.  But the suits make the final call...

[grab an umbrella]

We have been testing it here at our datacenter and have not had any issues so far.  we have around 2000 clients and most are running XP.  We are supposed to go to Vista but shit I hope not.  Vista sucks and we still have issues with it.  But the suits make the final call...

I never trust new OS', particularly from microsoft.  It's like the final beta release is what they give the public and let them sort out the rest of the bugs.

[brooklynbruiser]

My XP Pro never needs a reboot either. Hated Vista. Might try 7 if I get a new box. But to reinstall everything just to have the latest thing? Nah.

[grab an umbrella]

My XP Pro never needs a reboot either. Hated Vista. Might try 7 if I get a new box. But to reinstall everything just to have the latest thing? Nah.

Truth, whats your setup right now?

[Emmortal]

I never trust new OS', particularly from microsoft.  It's like the final beta release is what they give the public and let them sort out the rest of the bugs.

There's no real way to work out the final bugs until you put an OS out into the wild.  I usually wait until the first service pack update to do my upgrades, usually by then things are worked out fairly well.

[grab an umbrella]

There's no real way to work out the final bugs until you put an OS out into the wild.  I usually wait until the first service pack update to do my upgrades, usually by then things are worked out fairly well.

I went to dinner with my parents and my dad said the same thing.  I say a year, usually SP1 comes out about a year after the initial release.  His company never switched to vista, he told me(he is the head of IT/CIO) and he said vista just plain sucked.

[Team Diver]

[spinnis]

when I buy my new comp its win 7 ultimate

[HTexan]

I got the upgrade for my windows laptop for 30 bucks. Worth the price.