Microsoft Windows 7 in January

so vista was just a windowsME, XP sp3 still works for me, stable no troubles.
 
Maybe I'm the only one who will say this, but I have both XP and Vista on my system. After some small hiccups, Vista is now running pretty darn well. In fact, I'm finding it harder and harder to use XP, simply due to it's age. XP was a legendary system, but it is old now, and needs to bow out and let technology move on.
 
Asha'man X said:
Maybe I'm the only one who will say this, but I have both XP and Vista on my system. After some small hiccups, Vista is now running pretty darn well. In fact, I'm finding it harder and harder to use XP, simply due to it's age. XP was a legendary system, but it is old now, and needs to bow out and let technology move on.
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Same here, Vista runs well for me.
 
milomak said:
actually i would think it is the very thing you want the public to test. in that way you get a feel of how the OS actually performs against the myriad of different setups we users have.
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I'll most definately tryout Windows 7 in beta. Yes, there will be issues, but that is the case will ALL beta software. For the reason you stated above, I will get the beta of Win 7 and that is why the do give out the beta's.

And then again, it is very important to turn on Customer Experience Improvement on it, because MS gets very very valuable information from that! Alot of fixes and enhancements in Office 2007, Vista and Win7 is coming from that!

Aqua_lung said:
Same here, Vista runs well for me.
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The only issues I ever had with Vista was a sound card that didn't work, but I knew that will be the case because I used a sound card that was 3 years old at that stage. Apart from that, no problems what so ever! Running Vista 64bit now, and I must say that its leaps and bounds ahead of Vista 32bit!
 
I have had endless problems with Vista. For example a strange bug where it forgets the settings for my wireless connection and I have to tell it all over again what the SSID, IP, DNS and subnetmask are. Ridiculous.

XP started off a little shakey, but it really matured into an awesome OS. I found that SP3 slowed it down quite considerably though. I've disliked the Vista experience and I won't look at Windows 7 until it has been thoroughly tested by the die-hard Windows users.

Even then I'll probably just move completely to Linux.
 
xp had its dew it was a fine operating system with out a doubt, but its deceased and very little support for it since developers are now designing more for vista.

Vista is far more powerful than xp, i have been running it since sp1 went live (was on the beta program of vista in the beginning not that pretty), its as stable as xp was when sp2 got realeased, the only problems i have are due to the fact that i am running the Vista Ultimate 64-bit version mostly older applications that can't run though not to bothered by that.

Only wish is that when windows 7 gets released that microsoft does the wise thing and forget the 32-bit version as it technically a waste especially since its got limitations, mainly ram 3.25gb XP Pro and 4.00GB Vista Business/Ultimate. Games are becoming more resource and hungry 32-bit has had its day.

Vista Ultimate Rocks... XP SP3 users upgrade to either Vista or wait till end 2009 for windows 7
 
MielieSpoor said:
I'll most definately tryout Windows 7 in beta. Yes, there will be issues, but that is the case will ALL beta software. For the reason you stated above, I will get the beta of Win 7 and that is why the do give out the beta's.

And then again, it is very important to turn on Customer Experience Improvement on it, because MS gets very very valuable information from that! Alot of fixes and enhancements in Office 2007, Vista and Win7 is coming from that!

The only issues I ever had with Vista was a sound card that didn't work, but I knew that will be the case because I used a sound card that was 3 years old at that stage. Apart from that, no problems what so ever! Running Vista 64bit now, and I must say that its leaps and bounds ahead of Vista 32bit!
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Just be carefull.
I had the beta of Vista, and there was absolutely no way u could remove it without formatting the whole disk.
So put it on a different hard disk ( not a partition ) and keep it away from XP etc.
Also had the Beta of XP but that was still pretty ok.
 
alf101 said:
Just be carefull.
I had the beta of Vista, and there was absolutely no way u could remove it without formatting the whole disk.
So put it on a different hard disk ( not a partition ) and keep it away from XP etc.
Also had the Beta of XP but that was still pretty ok.
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if it was on a different partition you can just delete that partition.....
 
Run both XP SP2/3 and vista business on the same machine. I dont have old (more than 18 months) hardware. XP ran fine nor issues. Changed OS to vista business then added SP1 (courtesy delivery from Microsoft [cudnt believe it]) and getting BSOD every now and then..

Small issue to some but for me.. toss Vista if you want to sync via activsync to contacts. as with Vista activsync will NOT sync to windows contacts or windows calendar. You are force to but Office in order to sync your PDA/ cellhpone. But XP sync to outlook contacts without a hitch. Just a note..
 
rehd said:
Run both XP SP2/3 and vista business on the same machine. I dont have old (more than 18 months) hardware. XP ran fine nor issues. Changed OS to vista business then added SP1 (courtesy delivery from Microsoft [cudnt believe it]) and getting BSOD every now and then..

Small issue to some but for me.. toss Vista if you want to sync via activsync to contacts. as with Vista activsync will NOT sync to windows contacts or windows calendar. You are force to but Office in order to sync your PDA/ cellhpone. But XP sync to outlook contacts without a hitch. Just a note..
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I used to sync my GPS via the active sync in XP... come Vista, it had active sync built-in... and it's horrible...
 
alf101 said:
Just be carefull.
I had the beta of Vista, and there was absolutely no way u could remove it without formatting the whole disk.
So put it on a different hard disk ( not a partition ) and keep it away from XP etc.
Also had the Beta of XP but that was still pretty ok.
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i ran the Win7 7801 beta for a while. i was able to reload my linux grub back onto the MBR. i was also able to delete the 2 partitions 7801 creates on an install without any issue.

froot said:
I used to sync my GPS via the active sync in XP... come Vista, it had active sync built-in... and it's horrible...
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i have to say that the 7801 beta activesync created and synced my Touch Diamond with Outlook without any issue.
 
How come the release of Windows 7 is so soon after Vista?...Is Vista a failure! and not standing up to the expectations as pre-empted?...:)
 
I love my Vista 0 hassles, well after I put SP1 that is, If windows 7 is anything like Vista I will more than likely move to Windows 7 after the 1st SP is released.
 
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