Windows 7 Beta available tomorrow.

JonB · Afraid of Mileage Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Karma :

Legally, however it's already available on torrent sites.

Gonna give it a go, been following development and it seems like it is going to be a lot like Vista, but quicker and with some fancy new things.

I don't want to lose my current Vista partition though, will I be able to create a partition on my HDD with the Windows 7 disc?
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Hetzer · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Karma :

Vista's still a steaming pile of buggy shite and you're already thinking of the next MS rip-off?

No wonder gates is a multi-billionaire. Rolling Eyes

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neatbik · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Karma :

Well im no expert, but since ive been using vista ive had no end of problems, really considering going back to xp.

JonB · Afraid of Mileage Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Karma :

It's not buggy. Confused

Windows 7 is going to be basically Vista 2, so it's worth a try at least.
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JonB · Afraid of Mileage Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Karma :

It's no different than buying a Pentium 4 processor and then buying a "New, Improved!" Core 2 Duo is it though? Still does the same thing. It's a business product. Apple are even worse, charging their users basically a yearly subscription to OS X. Smile

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GhostRider · World Chat Champion Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Karma :

To be honest for the first 12 months driver support was abysmal for Vista. I only use PC for internet, word processing/excel and movie/music, with occasional photoshopping. If I were to persue a gaming spec, I'd shudder with the icy cold task of finding and successfully installing drivers for motherboards, graphics cards, sound cards etc. Not to mention that at the launch most people either had to buy a new PC or spend some decent coin upgrading their systems to be even able to run it..... then find out fuck all worked on it, especially if you were 64-bit.

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JonB · Afraid of Mileage Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Karma :

Half of those problems aren't Vista's fault though are they?

If third party developers can't pull their heads from their arses and make proper drivers then god help us. Yes Microsoft may have been awkward by changing the complete kernel of the system, but it has made windows faster and better as a consequence, if third party developers can't make their drivers work you can't blame it on Microsoft.

As for BSOD's I can't say i've seen one yet. Were they caused by the dodgy drivers?
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Luke_Retrofly · Silly Lesbian Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Karma :

Vista's been fine for me ever since I got it. Thumbs Up

MattHirst · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Karma :

Its OK Jon, i will join your Vista fan club Very Happy

Not once had a problem with Vista in the 9/10 months i have been using it. Couldn't get my wireless adaptor thing to work that i bought when i had XP, looked on the box and it said it was compatible with XP (no mention of vista).

Looked on the website and found some Vista drivers and it worked perfectly. A lot of the problems that people seem to have with Vista is either their own problem by trying to use incompatible drivers (and most of the time, Vista drivers are available for download) or third parties developing buggy/incompatible stuff.

I have Vista on my main laptop and XP Pro on my diddy netbook thing that is purely for use lounging around in bed and to be honest, i absolutley hate the UI of XP. Another thing about Vista is, not once have i had it crash on me where as XP seems to crash (or lockup and de-lockup itself 10/15 minutes later).

Anyhow, i don't generally go for beta software, especially something like an OS so i will leave it and see what others think of it and wait till it comes out for retail. Although i won't buy it for the sake of buying it, i will just wait until i want to upgrade (unless i go over to apple, then i will buy it and run a dual boot) and if the system i buy has the new OS pre-installed then so be it, if it has Vista then it makes no difference to me. I won't buy a system particulaly for an OS.
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Neorion · World Chat Champion Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Karma :

Ultimate x64 and its brilliant, bit slow on startup but no issues apart from Mionet support and my old media remote.

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Dont see what the problem with Vista is, it was a big and bold change there were bound to be slow uptakes. maybe not the quickest and a memory hogger at times but I just installed more memory.

I said it before and I will say it again. Microgay are a product of their own success and Windows 7 will need to be special and damn quick!

I have considered moving to XP64 though as I use it at work a lot but no DX10 and I game mostly.
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Hetzer · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Karma :

Oh yeah, and let's not forget to mention their biggest criminal fraud, the money-whoring no-hard-copy scam.

So you buy a new PC. You pay for the pre-installed OS of course. But you don't get a hard-copy, because the MS filth dictated it so.

So the OS goes tits-up. But that's ok, because there's a copy on a seperate partition and you have a recovery-disc. Gee, how clever! Until the partition gets corrupted or, shock horror, the entire drive fails! So now what are you going to do? Ring MS? Good luck with that.

No, you're expected to buy a whole new copy of the OS. Fancy that! MS get two bites from your wallet, charging you again for something you've already paid for.

And they get away with it. Blatant, flagrant, criminal FRAUD.
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