Windows 7 ...?

[Demolution]

So has anyone tried the Windows 7 Beta yet? If so, please do share your experiences with it. Supposedly it takes around 15 minutes to install. I wonder how it would handle Trem.

P.S. I'm not an MS fan boy, I'm only curious! 

[Hendrich]

Ugh......

So, XP was stable, fast, reliable and Microsoft did well. Then Microsoft decided to make a "upgraded" version of XP with bells, whistled and a new look, hoping to drag consumers into buying it. which it unfortunately did- and not only was it slower, it took up more processing power making it more difficult to play your favorite games. What utter bullshit.

Now, Windows 7 came long which looks like to me a watered down version of Vista. Install time was very fast, it took from 14-17 minutes for rme. The first thing I noticed was the friggin lag on my crap PC; I knew that was a bad idea. I quickly un-installed it and stuck it on my 2.4 Ghz PC and got better "frames" (Yea, thats just awful, talking about frames when using an OS then a game). Well, at first glance it may not look much, but actually the whole way you're using 7 is nothing like XP.

I won't make this thread incredibly long like a review, as a site below does that for me:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-first-look-at-windows-7.html

As for it's lasting appeal, it doesn't do much for me. Thanks, but no thanks, I rather stick with my XP anyday. The interface of Windows 7 might throw old Windows users off, but others might like it. Form me, I didn't get used to it. Note that Windows 7 is a branch of Vista, so if you can run Vista fine, there shouldn't be a problem running 7.

[snb]

listen to hendrich.. i have vista and though i have few problems with it xp run games better

[Taiyo.uk]

Well.... All I can say is thank goodness that there aren't any plans to deploy Vista any time soon on the networks I support.

[Caveman]

It's true what's being said. It installs in about 20 Minutes, smaller footprint asf...

Games do run, not faster, not slower. The only thing that's way better is the handling and the access/configuration of the device. Now even a complete airhead can configure it's computer.

[Amanieu]

Now even a complete airhead can configure it's computer.

Oh noes they're killing the tech support industry!

[Sap]

Windows 7 public beta to be 'officially' available starting tomorrow : Microsoft begins Windows 7 push [bbc.co.uk]. The video clips are nice.

[Demolution]

I wonder how much MS will sell this piece of refuse for. 

[Hendrich]

I wonder how much MS will sell this piece of refuse for. 

Hmm, if you think about it this is just a run down version of Vista that meant to be faster, sexier, and small. I'm guessing that it'll be cheap compared to when Vista was launched if thats what they're going for. If I'm wrong, then noone can disagree that they're just a bunch of greedy bastards.

[Kaleo]

It won't be cheap. Microsoft will never release something like an operating system for a reasonable price.

It will be the same price as Vista when it was released, and hopfully not as buggy.

I still don't think it will be any good, mind you.

[BunnyTheLifeguard]

I love it

[Amanieu]

Meh. Nothing beats the good ole unix shell.

[Kaleo]

http://xkcd.com/528/

[Demolution]

Meh. Nothing beats the good ole unix shell.

True, despite it being somewhat difficult to learn. Too many languages and too many syntaxes to remember. 

/opinion

[Lakitu7]

I'm using it. Trem works fine

Actually it wigs out a bit if you run fullscreen on a resolution that isn't your native resolution, but that's Nvidia's fault, not Trem's, and I'm sure they'll fix it well before the OS leaves beta.

[Paradox]

One note of warning. Dont accidentally trigger the aero shake in tremulous windowed mode. It will fuck you like crazy.

[Caveman]

I loled

[Lakitu7]

One note of warning. Dont accidentally trigger the aero shake in tremulous windowed mode. It will fuck you like crazy.

The same Nivida drivers, or ATI?

[Demolution]

One note of warning. Dont accidentally trigger the aero shake in tremulous windowed mode. It will fuck you like crazy.

Details, my good sir! 

[Sap]

Eventually I decided to try it out on a VM, looks not bad. Installation completed in bit over 35 minutes, speed-wise doesn't look bad but then again haven't spent more than a few minutes till now.
However, internet's still not working - either it's not recognizing the network adapter or some setting needs to be tweaked in VirtualBox .

It is supposed to be kept alive until August , hmm... possibly hinting that the final version won't be long after that  .

[Hendrich]

My friend wanted to try to download 7 on his laptop, but since so many people were downloading this one file at once (Rumors say it was over the thousands) that Microsoft's servers crashed. >.>

[Sap]

My friend wanted to try to download 7 on his laptop, but since so many people were downloading this one file at once (Rumors say it was over the thousands) that Microsoft's servers crashed. >.>

That, according to some sources, is false. There was never a problem with their servers, rather with the handling of registrations/authentications and such.

[Hendrich]

My friend wanted to try to download 7 on his laptop, but since so many people were downloading this one file at once (Rumors say it was over the thousands) that Microsoft's servers crashed. >.>

That, according to some sources, is false. There was never a problem with their servers, rather with the handling of registrations/authentications and such.

I see, thanks for the clarification then.

[Lakitu7]

Specifically it was the system that generates and hands out keys. They fixed it by just screwing the 2.5 million unique keys limit and giving everyone a nonunique key from a small pool of 10 or so.

Before that I refreshed ~30 tabs for ~4 hours to get my key.