It’s nigh on a few hours before the Windows 7 launch and things are heating up in the big city. Folks are lining up at the Windows store, children are quieter and more attentive in school, and the troubles of the world – global warming, terrorists, the economy – are on hold. We are waiting for a miracle and when it comes it will rhyme with ‘dindows’ and end with ‘7′
How happy are you about Windows 7? Like how totally happy?
Joking aside, I’ve been using a Windows 7 machine for almost a month now and I’m quite impressed with the stability and usability. I’m genuinely excited. Not excited enough to buy into it right now, but sooner or later we’ll all be using it somewhere. Microsoft is a juggernaut and no amount of snark can change that.
I’m so excited.. and i just cant hide it..I’m about to lose control and i think i like it. : )
Go Windows 7!
Why does Arrington think its cute or okay to let Biggs or Siegler cover Microsoft when he knows they’re a bunch preening effete prototypical D-Bag Macbois. These tools really think their 90’s era snark is funny or heck even believe they’re witty.
Spare us and work on that inferiority complex.
Because it’s just a bit of light humour?
HAHAHAHA. I just laughed at you, Mike.
You so fuunnnyyyyyyyyyy!
I hope it works better in the real world than vista. Otherwise my job will become aggravatingly difficult.
I’m marginally excited about 7. Honestly, I really didn’t have an issue with Vista, as long as the machine was properly specced.
I’m really excited about all of these inexpensive ultraportables that are being released with 7, though. I’ll take cheap, small and fast, regardless of the OS.
Woot woot !!!
Midnight launch party at the port!! Make a left at the drunk homeless dude in the grass, head down the stairs next to the prostitute, and hook another left under the pier where the smugglers sail in at night, and you’ll find magical Windows 7 PC’s waiting to be used…orrrr they’ll already be stolen by a couple of thugs from the next block over, damn Newark.
iMac
Running Windows 7?
Awesome!
I preordered three copies pf Windows 7 when they were $50 each.
My desktop is far too old to run Windows 7.
One for my laptop.
One for my Mac Mini… so it can actually be useful when im not using it to learn OSX.
And my friend paid me to get a copy for him since he was out of country at the time.
So yeah, hoping it arrives soon.
My windows launch party is this weekend at Webster High School on Saturday. We will be inviting about 400 kids, 200 adults, and 30 robots. Come have a burger with us, and watch the robots compete. We’ll put together the Windows 7 puzzle and play a game of cards to celebrate.
(Webster is in Rochester, NY)
Since I’ve been using win 7 for like a year now, not really that excited. I do think it is the most awesomest OS I’ve used.
Eh. I love Windows 7, but it’s rare I find myself demoing something other than ’shake’ or ‘jumplists’ to my friends and family when they ask what all the hubbub is about.
As someone who loves a clean OS install, I’m just happy not to have 2+ service packs to install when I’m doing a fresh reload on my Windows PC’s.
sami sis like vista
Excited? Not really, since ive been using the RC for a while now.
I AM glad that its finally on retail shelves so some idiots (like the people at winamp) who keep going “We don’t support Windows 7″ when clearly their program is at fault and not the OS can finally shut the **** up and FIX their damn bugs.
It is kind of anti-climactic having used it over a year now. There are some aspects of it I am not liking. Often we log in with a profile and set up the system to look like how we want it to look for all users, we then copy that profile over the default and the all users logging into machines get the same desktop. This is a common practice in the I.T. universe. Microsoft removed this capability so now I get to figure out a work around that does not involve hours of tweaking GPO’s.
I feel like I’m in a bad dream. Do people actually think this version of Windows is worth upgrading to?
My guess is that we’ll look back in 5-10 years after we all accept the superiority of Apple OS and frown on windows the same way we do when we see photos of ourselves in those fluorescent coloured t-shirts when we were kids.
Windows! What a flop. Get a Mac people and quit torturing yourselves and wasting your time with microsoft.
Really? So everone is going to revert from a super-stable, hyper-compatible, whatever-machine-you-want-as-long-as-the-CPU-is-x86, system they’ve used since childhood to a counter-intuitive, closed, super-expensive POS? Sure. I guarantee you Ubuntu-like distros with cloud computing focus will steal far more market share than the joke that is Mac OS. And they should – they rock on netbooks and low-powered laptops. I run jolicloud and love it. I also am typing this on an iPhone, which I also love. My desktop, though? Windows 7 all day. You really think the majority of people are going to buy a $1000 Mac when they can get an equivalent PC for 300 a 400 less? Go give Steve Jobs verbal head elsewhere – I’m sure the mactards over at Gizmodo would love to circle jerk with you.
I’ve been using the RC for a few months now and like it. It seems to be a great operating system. Very stable.
I SIMPLY LOVE IT
Like Gryphyn I’ve been using the RC version for a few months.
Is it better than Vista; well let me just say that imho it makes Vista look like Windows Millenium by comparison.
This is definately the OS Vista should have been, slick, cleaner, faster and resource friendly.
I installed the 32bit candidate on my 6 year old Dell C840 laptop and apart from not being able to use certain software due to the graphic system on the laptop, GeForce 2, it ran beautifully.
I have bought 2x Professional edition, at the discounted price, for my quad core and my wife’s pc and have purchased the upgrade pack for my HP HDX16 laptop and consider it all a bargain.
As for Peter’s comments. It’s easy to design a slick os when you only have to consider four different machines and you dictate the limitations for your end users.
Windows actually offers greater freedom because my PC doesn’t have to be like anyone elses and Windows, unlike OS whatever, can cope with this level of choice for a bit of trade off in performance.
I like choice :)