So how’s that Windows 7 beta treating you? Even if you’ve had issues—and we know that some of you have—you should know that Microsoft is trying to make this whole experience work as smoothly as possible.
Gone is the 2.5 million-download limit. Since the beta has proven to be so popular, Microsoft has decided that, for the next two weeks, if you download the beta you’ll get a key. (No having to resort to BitTorrent, then.) This “offer,” if you can call it that, goes through January 24.
Good to see Microsoft trying to make good here.
First impression is that this is the operating system that Vista should have been! I think that we are going to see a big improvement in Microsoft customer satisfaction with this release. All software seems to be working well. Well worth downloading a copy.
I did not want to believe all the good and promising news – until I installed the public beta on my older LE1600 Tablet PC!
Read about here
http://max.zamorsky.name/2009/01/13/windows7-auf-einem-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pcwindows7-on-a-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pc/
I haven’t installed yet, so maybe someone could shed some light on whether drivers are readily available for things. Or will I be looking hard to find everything?
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I haven’t had any issues with drivers. It seems it shares all its drivers with Windows Vista…so if it worked on vista it should work in windows 7.
I’m a fan. So far, I love the method of browsing through multiple open windows by mousing over their associated thumbnails from the taskbar. Some are saying this is merely a step in the right direction toward an “Expose” style solution. I say it’s BETTER than Expose in some key ways. First, you see everything in a small thumbnail view. . . then when you mouse-over, the associated window is pulled to the front of the stack in full size. Everything else fades away. You don’t have to hunt around on an exploded screen of reduced-size windows to find what you’re looking for – you just mouse over each and the full version comes to the front. Nothing moves from where you expect it to be. . . everything remains right where you put it. This is FANTASTIC.
The beta isn’t without problems on my system. I find it difficult to get out of full screen applications like playing a video in Windows Media Player. I’ve also tried some XBOX 360 content sharing – and it works fine, as long as I’m not trying to use Windows Media Center (which would be preferred.)
Overall, I really like what I see. I may be one of the few who feels the the Windows Menu search box is better than Apple’s sluggish Spotlight. As a current Mac user and a long-time Windows user, I’m still struck by how much deeper it seems you can dig into a Windows installation than you can in OSX. It gives me peace-of-mind to know that I can tweak things very specifically. I love my Macs – but Windows 7 looks like it may make me love my PC again, too.
I never got the whole search thing. How often do you really search for stuff? My computer is pretty well organized, I know where everything is, and I don’t need MS to help me find it. Praising the search function, is that a job-related phenomenon or something?
Been running just fine on my Dell laptop, decided to reformat off the Vista and get 7 on it. Been running nice and smooth. A few errors installing with some bad DVD coasters, but new media helped the quick install.
Been more happy with it over Vista.
I’ve been really impressed with it… and I was a happy Vista user. HomeGroup has actually turned my home network into something more than just a path to the internet – that is, I’m sending files between computers (media and documents). I’m really impessed how well Win 7 has been running on some of my older hardware. No doubt about it, Windows 7 is going to bring a lot of people back to Microsoft. BTW the Zune software is running better then ever.
Installed quick,ran fast.Pci drivers rivers were an issue on a 2003 laptop.Pretty impressed so far though.
I finally got the activation key and got to download and install Windows 7. I think it looks very much like Ubuntu. I had a small hardware issue (easily resolved). It looks very much like Ubuntu not Vista. If you ever had Ubuntu you find yourself in the same familiar graphics environment. Which is not a problem but some may like it or not. Very easy to navigate.
Bottom line is… I could buy any equipment with Windows 7 included. I have been delaying to buy a new PC due to Vista. I would not go and buy Windows 7 in the disc, but I would love any equipment, as soon as they are out, with Windows 7 as its OS. Good. It has a very special look to it. And I would like to be able to change it. I don’t see how I am going to change the taskbar color and I don’t like the color. Too much Ubuntu for my taste.
I used to dualboot Ubuntu and Vista on my laptop.
Windows 7 looks VERY VERY much like Vista, and nearly nothing like Ubuntu.
I have no idea how you think Windows 7 looks like Ubuntu but dosen’t look like Vista.
Has anybody tried to install 7 on their Apple Computer w/Boot Camp?
Installed Windows 7 beta yesterday, got a key from Technet – and somehow I am little dissapointed about hardware drivers not included in Windows 7, got a ASUS P5Q deluxe motherboard ICH 10 chipset, but Windows 7 installed “standard dual pci channels”, Vista installed Serial ATA drivers correct, so I have very poor Harddisk performance in Windows 7. SM Bus is also missing in Windows 7. Although MS has claimed that Windows 7 will support the latest hardware – thats not the case, and today the gadgets dissappeared from my desktop, and they are dead and gone. Trying the restore function resulted in “not reponding”. So I’m not that thrilled about windows 7, okat its beta, but still a long way for MS to get me satisfied.
I have an impression that Windows 7 is Vista in new clothes – wonder if a SP could make Vista Windows 7…..SP2 for Vista is coming up, so maybe its not needed to go for 7, Vista has become very well after the first SP, so I’ll stick to Vista 64 bit, it rocks on mu PC.
I installed as a new virtual machine using Parallel Desktop 4.0. It installed perfect, but I can’t seem to get a network connection. The network works fine with Vista virtual machine, but Windows 7 It cant even find a wireless network. I dont know what the problem is? Any suggestions?
Install/mount Parallels tools and go into device manager in Windows 7 then update drivers for your network adapters from the mounted Parallels Tools. That should do it
Definitely better than Vista, and I like Vista. I did an upgrade install from Vista Ultimate and didn’t have a single bang in Device Manager.
It’s noticably faster than Vista on my system and I’m having the same experience with this as I had moving from XP to Vista. It’s not one big thing that makes it better it’s a whole lot of small things that you notice aren’t there when you go back to an older system. It simply feels better.
I understand that there’s more to come besides bug fixes so it’s going to be fun to see how this developes.
Oh, and as far as I can tell there are no specific Windows 7 drivers out yet. All of the Vista drivers I have work perfectly.
I upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista SP1 – only one small glitch to do with pinning some applications to the taskbar where they didnt show up straight away. Visually looks great – really enjoying the taskbar treatment as detailed by ProfessionalGun in a previous comment.
Installed Windows 7 during weekend and it really IS great OS. The only thing that makes me a bit mad is the network adapter. Seems to drop the connection too oftem. Luckily enough, I have the Wi-Fi card so I installed it and it works just fine… :)
installed on an 1 gig, 2.20 GHz system with 256 MB GPU in 40 mins or so, without any problems or even any input from me. recognised my incredibly crappy USB ADSL modem easy enough. installed my HP printer all by itself when i turned it on. seems to be working without a hitch and no slower than XP, but i haven’t had the time to mess with it for more than an hour. the taskbar-quicklaunch merge bugged me though. it might seem neat as an idea, but it’s way too icon-based and confusing as to what is a launch icon and what is a working application.
i’m a dirty little pirate tho, i got mine from rapidshare.
Hey are any of you guys experiencing any sort of issues with programs installed on your Vista machine (when upgrading to 7)? I really want to pull the trigger but am afraid of incompatibility issues with some software. Thanks.
very impressed so far. Especially with how well it runs on my netbook. It actually performs just as good if not better than the linux install on that system. Overall impression is very positive and I think that this will get some positive mojo heading to redmond
I had pretty much had it with Vista on my desktop, so I upgraded it to Windows 7.
It’s an upgrade in every sense of the word. The box seems like it is now about twice as fast. What’s more all apps and drivers are working fine. The Vista nightmare seems like it is finally over.
Next up, I am loading this onto a media center PC.
WIsh i could say i’ve had a great experience with win7 so far. While i can deffenetly see the improvements with performance and the ui. Media center performs like a dog. Which is funny because i’m running it on a dual core amd athalon 64 w/4 gig’s of mem, using a sata drive and gigabit eithernet. I have 2 hdhomeruns for clear qam hdtv and video playback isn’t even tollerable. On top of that, using my 360 as an extender is even worse. Like i said i see deffenate improvements in the desk top and will probably take the leap and install it on my work machine as that is where i’ll get to utalize it’s benefits. If ms fix’s media center, which i’m sure they will, win7 really could take back some of the market share it’s lost to os/x.
I have win 7 installed on a hd with dual partitions, XP Home is on the first partition. That seems to work OK, but in Win 7, it will not let me look at any files on the “other partition” in Explorer or any other way, it’s like it’s not even there.
To transfer anything between partitions I have to go back to Win XP where Explorer works fine and allows me to do all of those things.
Any ideas or suggestions? At this point I’m not too impressed with Win 7, had all kinds of trouble finding drivers for my hardware, especially the Ethernet card. Finally started chaning Ethernet cards will win 7 came up with a driver for one of them and then that worked OK. Also no drivers for my sound chip on my Asus MB, finally got those from Win 7 update and now that works OK. Have another hardware chip on the board that it can’t find drivers for. Gave up on that for the time being.
I’m glad I still have my XP to fall back on, hope they get some of the bugs and configuations cleared up with Win 7 one of these days.
You have to click start-right click computer, manage, then go to storage, then look for partition one, and it shouldn’t have a drive letter. Assign it a drive letter then you’ll be set.
Your suggestion was a lifesaver. Only trouble is that I had to give my other partition a different letter than it has on Windows XP. But it work fine. “Manage” got it going, it hadn’t been assigned at all. Now I can transfer files back and forth between the two partitions that I couldn’t do before. Many thanks.
I was very sceptical about Microsoft’s marketing promises. So I wanted to see for myself. I am positively surprised. read my comparison between XP, Vista and Windows 7 experince on an older Tablet PC here:
http://max.zamorsky.name/2009/01/13/windows7-auf-einem-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pcwindows7-on-a-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pc/
I got a copy last week and finally took the time to install it. I’m running on P-4 2.8 with 512 mb ram 75 gb hard drive (wimpy little system) the only thing that I upgraded was the video card, I just happened to have a spare radeon 9800 laying about. After the install I had it rate the system. I got a 2.9, but if I add some ram, I can get it up to 3.8 (I’m limited by the processor) The only problem I have run into so far is configuring Outlook to my Exchange server. It seems as though the system is not seeing the server on my local network….anybody have any ideas?.?.?.?
Other than that, I am enjoying the overall experience. Of course I haven’t tried to install any of my work related software or any other strictly XP types of software.
Very impressed so far. Fast, stable, no issues whatsoever in terms of drivers, network adapter, etc.
So, what am I using? Dell Dimension E510 Desktop. Pentium 4, 3.2GHz, 1GB RAM. Created a new partition using Gparted to maintain my current XP Home Media Center.
installed windows 7 as my main os through upgrading vista. running smoothly. i am a fan of windows but after installing and seeing the cleaner interface of the new os i am really thinking about the gloss and shine of windows vista as why they were there and why i was happy with them.. this os definitely gonna rock.
I installed it, everything is fine except that it cannot find the ethernet card of my LG portable. I will appreciate any assistance.
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