Windows 7 thoughts

[Ipheuria]

All the people who have been using Windows 7 beta, RC, RTM what's your thoughts on it?

I loaded the beta and RC on my desktop and I loved it. It was so much like Vista that I was very familiar with it. It felt to me like a tweaked Vista without the fluff. I love Vista always have, never had problems running it but 7 feels so much cleaner and lighter. Now finally I decided to upgrade the Vista on my fusion to Windows 7. When I upgraded from XP to Vista it was a nightmare none of my programs worked, my user profile was all screwed up so I ended up just doing a clean install. I was looking for the same thing to happen with the upgrade to Windows 7 but I was shocked and pleasantly surprised when the upgrade went through without a hitch. All of my programs work perfect, my user profile was migrated over perfectly everything is where it was before since I customize everything about my interface I didn't expect it. So I'm loving it, I'm running it on my Macbook Pro with 2GB of RAM dedicated to Windows and it runs fine for me. I love the fact the upgrade went so well because when the company I work for decides to take the plunge I wont be cringing as much since it looks to be a smoothe transition. A few of the nice things I love there is no more sidebar the gadgets just float anywhere on the desktop. I also noticed that the Windows firewall now has seperate settings for Work, Home and Public Places which is excellent because before my users would have to flip flop between work with a dedicated firewall and home which most likely had nothing. I have noticed a few other small things, and my games all worked My COD fired right up, I remember when Vista first came out it was a nightmare with games. Anyway would love to hear others thoughts and tips, tricks, and tweaks you discovered.

[Alli]

I've been using Windows 7 on my MSI Wind for a while now. I absolutely love it. I love that it has been streamlined enough to run on a netbook! I love that there are no driver issues - as there were (and still are!) with Vista.

They definitely did everything right with this. Vista (like Windows ME) should never have been released. It's a resource hog.

I also love how the gadgets will go anywhere,

[Ipheuria]

I agree with you on the Windows 7 I feel the same way. I love Vista though I never understood when all my friends would complain about it. Windows ME you are definately right there I had it on my machine at that time for about a week and then I loaded Win 2000 I just couldn't take it anymore. How do you like your netbook? I was thinking of getting one next year but not sure how I feel about that yet.

[sting7k]

How does the RC work with your iPhone and iTunes? I'm pretty pumped for Win7. Pre-ordered it awhile back when it was only $50 for the upgrade from Vista. Everything I've read about Win7 is pretty impressive. Although I've never had a problem with Vista on my laptop, I think some people just couldn't get past it's launch problems.

[whmurray]

Originally Posted by Ipheuria

I agree with you on the Windows 7 I feel the same way. I love Vista though I never understood when all my friends would complain about it. Windows ME you are definately right there I had it on my machine at that time for about a week and then I loaded Win 2000 I just couldn't take it anymore. How do you like your netbook? I was thinking of getting one next year but not sure how I feel about that yet.

Perhaps a little off the Win 7 topic but on the iPhone topic, I would like to suggest that the future looks more like the iPhone and less like Windows. The future looks like tens of thousands of purpose-built applications hiding the UI of the operating system.

Using good SDKs, coding is no longer the issue, design is. Have you heard about the SDK that permits one to code an iPhone application in minutes rather than days? If you can design it, you can build it, if you can build it, they will come.

Compare the time that one spends managing a laptop to that of managing an iPhone. One manages a laptop but uses an iPhone. Toddlers can use an iPhone. Gramma can use an iPhone.

Compare the security. There are more compromised PCs than there are iPhones, while there are almost no compromised iPhones. Windows cannot protect its applications from interference and contamination while iPhone applications protect the OS.

Consider your options if you are Apple. Suppose that Apple really does want to do a tablet computer. They have one operating system but a choice of UIs. Do they sell more machines if they put the iPhone UI on iit, or the MacBook? If they give you a choice between the two, which do you choose?

I choose the iPhone interface. I would rather that Apple scale up the iPhone than scale down Mac OS. If I can get the former, I will buy it on the first day orders are accepted.

I have four, count them four, Windows machines, 3 XP, one Vista. I hope never to buy another. The contemplation of installing or migrating to Windows 7 makes my blood run cold. On the other hand, I look forward to hooking up an Apple Tablet to my iTunes and then to installing iTunes on it.

Apple has the imagination to take us in that direction.

[Ipheuria]

I don't know how RC would work with my Iphone or Itunes cause I have Mac OS X and run Windows in parrallel through VMware Fusion. I only use my Iphone from the Mac side. I wish I had gotten it when it was up for the special pricing too I kept putting it off until it was gone. Oh well I'm running RTM right now and once it drops I'll be buying a few copies. Although I may buy only one copy and wait to see if I hear anything about a beta for Window 8 I also have never had any problems running Vista on any of my machines. When it first came out my games wouldn't run for about a week but then it was all sorted out and I got everything running. I've always loved Vista, I love Windows 7 so much more though especially after the upgrade went so well.

whmurray I understand what you are saying but I could never see myself not having at the very least one computer running Windows. I have used both for years and there are things I like about each so I would never say one is greater than the other. They both have different strengths and weaknesses.

[Alli]

While I am still syncing my iPhone with my 64 bit Vista machine, I have successfully tethered my iPhone to the netbook with Win 7. That was a great experience! Once I get the RTM installed on my main computer, that's all I'll have.

[Ipheuria]

Let us know how that goes, I have 32bit wanna know how the 64bit handles. Are you planning to do an inplace upgrade? or clean install?

[whmurray]

Originally Posted by Ipheuria

.........whmurray I understand what you are saying but I could never see myself not having at the very least one computer running Windows. I have used both for years and there are things I like about each so I would never say one is greater than the other. They both have different strengths and weaknesses.

What a terrible lack of imagination. I said the same thing about DOS and may have been the last man to give it up. My DOS was customized to look like VM/CMS. I have spent my fifty year career dragging the dinosaur into the future.

I am old and I drink, the dinosaur has gotten fat and bloated, the road is unpaved, full of ruts, and uphill. There is not enough time left to me to spend any of it doing one more Windows migration or install. Death to Windows.

"One iPod Touch per child."

[audit]

I've been running Win 7 enterprise for 2 weeks now since i have a MSDN subscription through work and love it. Haven't had any issues with any apps so far. iTunes works great. Bought a new laptop that had Vista on it and didn't even boot into Vista, just loaded Win 7 as soon as it powered up. All drivers were found and the speed is amazing.

This weekend it's going on the other 3 computers in the house. A friend has been running it on his netbook since it was released as RC and loves it.