Windows 7...

[EBR Works]

I have been playing with a 90 day eval Enterprise version of Win 7 that MS has made available. To my surprise, I like it! After the Vista fiasco, it appears that MS has finally done it right. The OS runs great on one of my 2GHz, 1G test machines. It really does appear to be Vista SP3 with all the fixes/revisions that MS should have made in the first place. The only glaring omission is the fact that no basic email client is included. Thunderbird is an easy enough solution to this. Anybody else here using it yet? Comments?

[ocabj]

We got the Enterprise media a couple weeks ago. I installed in on a VM and it's decent. XP is still faster for all my Windows needs. Some of non-tech people in our office have been using it and they seem to like it.

Most of the Windows users are either using Outlook or Thunderbird for email.

[Aegis]

I ordered Windows 7 and can't wait for it to arrive. I have a PC running Vista and it is terrible. Vista on my PC is very unstable and crashes all the time. I have a PC with XP and it runs great.

If Windows 7 does not run well, I will buy all Apple computers in the future.

[cactustactical]

I have been running the RC version build 7100 for about 3 months now and it has been great so far!

Very fast and reliable. Opening things like illustrator / photoshop and running 4 or 5 high demand programs is no issue at all

You will like it the more you play with it and find it's hidden little secrets

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[jb7706]

Windows 7 is good to go. Been running it for a long time now, through beta's and RC's. I have had the RTM bits for a little over a month now. All is well. I never had any serious problems with Vista, but 7 seems faster. Hibernation, sleep and wakeup work out better now, and dual monitor support is improved. I'd take 7 over Vista for sure.

[armygunsmith]

I started running Win 7 since the beta days, and I love seeind how the OS has polished up. Better than Vista, and the VM integration is awesome. No more legacy application issues. And the multi-touch integrations is awesome if you ever have a chance to play with that.

[Diablo]

I have Vista in my PC and haven't had any problems, never crashed and it's super fast.

Me likey!!!

[SeanCasey]

I have been running Win7 since beta and now am running RTM (I love Technet, best $300 a year a MS focused IT guy or computer nerd can spend).

Works great!

[Blackhawk556]

yes i've been using it for months now. i was able to get professional RTM for $19 bucks

so far from all the people who have posted on this thread, not one has said anything negative about it which indicates a good thing. That doesn't mean people haven't had problems with it but I'm sure anyone who purchases a new computer next month that comes with windows 7 pre-installed will be happy about it.

the new intel i7 chips for laptops will be awesome when put together with windows 7. I hope they don't cost me a arm and a leg

[dude]

I've been using Windows 7 on my desktop and laptop since RTM. Works great, goodbye XP!

Yeah, it's dumb they didn't include an email client. I guess they want people to install Windows Live Mail or buy Outlook.

[Blackhawk556]

I've been using Windows 7 on my desktop and laptop since RTM. Works great, goodbye XP!

Yeah, it's dumb they didn't include an email client. I guess they want people to install Windows Live Mail or buy Outlook.

yes probably

but actually it is also a way to make less bloated. people complained with vista that it had too much crap built into it and just slowed down your computer. At least this way people have to make their own choice on what they want which leads to less lawsuits from competitors.

[SeanCasey]

Probably had more to do with preventing more antitrust lawsuits than anything. Similar to have the photo gallery, messanger, and movie maker are part of that bundle now too.

[Blackhawk556]

Probably had more to do with preventing more antitrust lawsuits than anything. Similar to have the photo gallery, messanger, and movie maker are part of that bundle now too.

we said the same thing

[CSDGuy]

For the Vista folks... I just figured this out myself... if you have an nVidia video card, the "nvstor.exe" program (which apparently has something to do with disk storage for the card) doesn't like to play nicely with Vista when doing disk intensive activities. My computer would freeze during MS updating and anti-virus scanning. I just disabled the nVidia stuff... and all is good with Vista. Everything actually ran like it was supposed to.

Just doing a little checking around, it seems that nVidia, MS, and some hardware manufacturers all blame each other for this problem...

I might actually give Win 7 a try later on...

[JDay]

I have been playing with a 90 day eval Enterprise version of Win 7 that MS has made available. To my surprise, I like it! After the Vista fiasco, it appears that MS has finally done it right. The OS runs great on one of my 2GHz, 1G test machines. It really does appear to be Vista SP3 with all the fixes/revisions that MS should have made in the first place. The only glaring omission is the fact that no basic email client is included. Thunderbird is an easy enough solution to this. Anybody else here using it yet? Comments?

Type "Live" into the start menu, get Live Essentials. That's where movie maker, messenger, mail and the photo gallery went.