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by nurul_ali

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test the window 7 .. anyone have better experience or bitter experience??

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by zynischen

i have recently downloaded the beta for window 7 and i didnt like it one bit, the taskbar, no thanks...

i like the windows button at the bottom left but thats all that ive liked about the interface. O wow it runs on less ram and runs faster. But, i throught it was going to take up less room on the HD. it took up 8GB's of Space.

I did test it in Sun's XVM know as VirtualBox.

i like my vista it runs well, the occasional hissifit, but thats not much differnt then your gf or wife. But with one utimate and awesum differnce. You can unPlug it.

by nurul_ali

i ask you guys because ... wanna tell people what should they do ... upgrade to windows 7 or stay to vista ... anyone have problem with the driver .. application .... or just with this windows 7

btw .. 8gb?????? that's a lotsa space... lol

by charliespencer

Historically I avoid installing a new version of Windows until a few weeks after the first service pack has been released. No one is going to have any applications that require or take advantage of W7 until then anyway. Let someone else do the trouble shooting and 'gamma testing'.

by hal 9000

I can not see that doing either would have any benefit over the other.

If it works under Vista it's going to work under 7 and if it doesn't work on Vista it's not going to work with 7 so there is no advantage.

However at the Beta Test Stage on a 64 Bit Platform my Video Capture card doesn't have any working drivers though on the 32 Bit Version it works perfectly. That's about the only real difference I've run across till now.

What would be a better option is getting your customers to move away from 32 Bit OS to a 64 Bit OS as this is what will be required next. Bothering if it's Vista or 7 makes very little sense as one is just the previous version with some Window Dressing.

Considering them different is exactly the same as considering XP different to XP SP1. The name means nothing at all here. Thought the Marketing people at M$ would want you to believe otherwise but even still with the perceived Reputation Vista has this has not stopped one copy being sold of Windows. Though it may have caused 2 or more OEM OS's to be sold for a lot of computers where the customer buys a new computer with Vista Preloaded and then buys another copy of XP to use. Really quite clever of M$ if you think about it getting paid twice for the same thing and supporting neither.

If Vista does what is required it's perfectly OK if it doesn't you need to use something else that does what the end user requires. It's really that simple.

Then there is what was circulating several years ago about Microsoft being an Acronym meaning

[b]Most

Intelligent

Customers

Realize

Our

Software

Only

Fools

Teenagers.I can't say I fully support that belief but it's perfectly true for some users. If it works now don't be in a hurry to change and if it doesn't work now why are you still attempting to use a Unsuitable product?

Col

by skdtech

I would not be at all averse to installing it on new machine builds or purchasing machines that have it preinstalled.

Some of the new features such as Aero peek and the new taskbar format are quite nice. So far it does seem to have a decent performance advantage over Vista. If I could change the icons as easily as in Rocketdock the taskbar would be perfect :P

And to the earlier poster who mentioned it taking up 8Gb of diskspace, in today's market where it is difficult to find anything under 80Gb Win7's footprint is hardly overwhelming.

by rstan251

I have been playing with the beta. It is definitely faster than vista. Unlike vista, you dont need a smoking video card.

I also found some interesting stuff about the preview windows and tool-bars at http://officeliveteam.com.

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