Windows7

[Rick W]

Got the beta installed and running it now posting this.
Looks like a prettied-up XP install. Not being bothered about permissions as I was with a fresh Vista install. So far so good but I haven't played with it yet.

Time will tell.

 

[turnorburn]

Just be careful Brother.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 61,00.html

Trial version of Windows 7 'glitchy' and risky
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Richard Conrad

January 12, 2009 05:10pm

WARNING: Do not install the trial version of Microsoft's latest operating system - unless you're a total IT geek who likes living dangerously.

Millions of curious PC users around the world have rushed to download and install the `beta' release of Windows 7, despite Microsoft warning "it can be glitchy" and "there's a chance of losing files".

Keith Younger, president of the 7600-plus members Melbourne PC User Group, said the general public are being used as Microsoft's "free guinea pigs".

"Microsoft has 2.5-million-plus people around the world busy finding their bugs for them," he said.

* First impressions: How Windows 7 works, or not

Mr Younger said the dangers of installing Windows 7 include:

* the new OS may be vulnerable to malicious attacks

* An older or different version of Windows has to be installed before Windows 7 beta expires on August 1 (2009)

* the system may be unstable and you risk losing your files

* unknown issues may arise.

"There are risks with using any beta software," Mr Younger said.

"One only needs to look at the number of issues that arose with Vista – and are still arising with Vista.

"Straight away, from a security aspect, you need to realise there are a lot of people trying to pick it apart to discover vulnerabilities."

Warnings aside, early signs for Microsoft's newest operating system are positive.

"A number of our members who've downloaded and started using it are telling me all sorts of good things," Mr Younger said.

"It's actually a possibility that Microsoft might have got it right this time – it's probably what Vista should have been in the first place.

"Once installed, start-up is quicker than Vista and certainly at least as good as XP, which is where many people stayed – a lot of people didn't bother with Vista."

However, Windows 7 may be foiled by anti-trust activists in the United States.

"There's already a lot of chatter on the web that Windows 7 is being heavily scrutinised for anti-trust issues," Mr Younger said.

"Naturally, Microsoft have their commercial interests at heart and Windows 7 appears to be biased towards Microsoft's own applications.

"Internet Explorer works better on it than Firefox and the same for Outlook, rather than anything else for your email."

Microsoft has not set a date for the commercial release of Windows 7, but a spokesperson said some time at the end of 2009 or early in 2010 was most likely.
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You don't have to be a total IT Geek to install it, you would just have to be STUPID to install it on a pc that you have valuable information on.
Posted by: Michael of 6:08pm today

Never mind that, don't use it until MS brings out a replacement OS for it. That's usually how long it takes them to get these things right.
Posted by: Arthur Potter of Ascot Vale 6:08pm today

And you should also then wait for the first service pack before installing it so I wouldn't use it untill at least late 2010. This coming from an IT tech.
Posted by: Christian of Cheltenham 5:39pm today

turnorburn

 

[Rick W]

It's installed on a harddrive I really don't care if it does get borked.
As far as the other drives each is backed up. Besides, I can totally restore my main C partition on the main drive and be booted and back online within 2 1/2 minutes. *
I experiment a lot in this manner. Some things work and some don't. Had one that stepped on my bios somehow So since then I've learned to keep that backed up also.

* Not an image restore but a byte for byte partition restore located on 2 other physical drives.
There's 6 drives in this system, 4 Sata and 2 IDE. All WDs.

 

[tim-from-pa]

I realize this "trial" version of Windows 7 may have its bugs, but in the end when its perfected, it promises to use less hardware resources. If that's true, then Microsoft finally gets the message. Microsoft is likened unto Republican or Democratic philosophies that claims to do better, but oftentimes does not and uses more of our resources. They are known to be resource hogs which is why we have to get more and more powerful computers but they are no faster.

Linux on the other hand (a minority party like Libertarian) does not use resources and I often use OS like Knoppix for my computer, especially if it has a virus so prone to MS OS but not to Linux. It is a faster OS. (I hope Microsoft got that message)

But people still gravitate to MS OS because I guess that's the mainline Os for today even if it sucks. People tend to follow what most do.

Back to Windows 7, if it delivers to be a better OS like windows 98 was, then I guess we have hope. But if it's like XP or Vista, then it's no better.

 

[Rick W]

Linux has it's advantages but it's also at the cost of having to learn it's commandline syntax and all that goes with it. Windows is point and click but much of Linux is still reminiscent of DOS. And I think that's what holding a lot of people back from using Linux more than it is. People just don't want to learn all that stuff.

 

[tim-from-pa]

Linux has it's advantages but it's also at the cost of having to learn it's commandline syntax and all that goes with it. Windows is point and click but much of Linux is still reminiscent of DOS. And I think that's what holding a lot of people back from using Linux more than it is. People just don't want to learn all that stuff.

I like the DOS and Windows 98 over the newer OS's of Microsoft's. Back in my days one had to know their commands or CLI as it's called in Linux. Shows my age. :D

Here's Knoppix screenshot of its desktop (similar to what I have) Works pretty much the same way. Can support multiple log-ins of users (XP can't) and desktops for different terminals.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/wp-content ... noppix.jpg

 

[ChristianPF]

I just had my Vista machine irrepairably crash after a windows update, so I am interested to see if 7 will be any better...