I downloaded the .ISO and burned a DVD. I have played around with it a little. It didn’t give me an ethernet adapter driver which surprised me. I got mine off of my motherboard installation CD. I have seen a couple of software incompatibilities but I haven’t played with it that long. Anyone else?
sweet comic, except that i like windows
I havent downloaded it because I only have one computer and I don’t want to mess with the OS
otherwise I would
I tried a cracked version of it a month or so back, and I loved it. Like I said before, it was like going from windows 98 to windows 98se.
You just reminded me to catch up on a few weeks worth of XKCD. Thanks.
True, dat. That’s a funny comic, dude. You posted that somewhere else, didn’t you? Is this what you do at college? Things are looking up for higher education in the U.S.-of-A.
You can install it in a virtual machine. Instructions for installing it in Virtual PC are here.
I’m still on break, thank you very much.
The claim by MS is that if it runs in Vista it will run in Windows 7. In the upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 they were supposed to avoid the compatibility issues that occurred when upgrading from XP to Vista. So far I have found that neither my virus scan software, McAfee, nor imaging software, DriveImageXML, work in Windows 7 even though both of them work in Vista.
Then I must reiterate, things are looking up for higher education in the U.S.-of-A.
… too bad he’s in Texas …
jokes
education that mostly educates you on how to educate yourself in ways that your education should have?
that’s looking up…
alright, i guess it could be worse
haha !!! :D:D:p:p
I’m not really sure what you just said, but I’m going to assume it was for me, and against Greg.
Thanks!
lol
it was more like… eh… what do they teach us… other than how to teach ourselves.
so it was neutral thought.
The latest I have found is that Windows 7 won’t join a home network unless all of the other computers are running Windows 7. This means I can’t tweak around on my computer and, at the same time, give Karen file share access or access to the printer.
The help and support pages are skeleton outlines which is no surprise. If you can access the pages you would expect a note on each one with a disclaimer.
Removing programs seems to get stuck without finishing completely. I can’t tell if it’s hung up in the registry. Once you kill the software removal tool it seems to have completed.
I tried to delete the “old windows” folder that Windows 7 created so I could make more compact images to switch back and forth between Windows 7 and XP. It took 45 minutes to delete the folder.
Pouring over techie fora, tweaking this and that, a day later I was able to get a Windows 7 machine to recognize an existing Windows network and I was able to force it to join. Hardly user friendly networking. In XP it was a several step operation but it was at least straight-forward and did not fight you every inch of the way. The printer was easily shared across the network but Windows 7 folders were reluctant to allow themselves to be shared. They also don’t seem to want you to give them a unique and useful name when shared. This can cause redundancies between multiple users with like named folders or multiple drives with like named folders. It is surprising how difficult it was to get a Windows machine and network to recognize one another. Of course a Windows network would NEVER recognize an Apple or Linux machine. GOD FORBID!!
About a third of my programs that run with no difficulty in Vista will not run in Windows 7. DVD Shrink, an old, obsolete application, will install but trying to run it seizes the machine. A number of other applications fight the installation. I will try to set the protection level for application installation and running down later. This is a feature that you are supposed to be able to implement in Windows 7 to keep the nagging Vista messages like, “are you sure you want to tie your shoes? That could cause a hernia,” from appearing every keystroke and mouse-click.
During shutdown, Windows explorer doesn’t want to close and let the shutdown process complete. It wants to keep blowing its signal horn telling everyone else that it is shutting down. Odd, why doesn’t it just stop?
So far I find Windows 7 far more user-vicious than Vista. They idea of using the term user-friendly, even in negative comparison, seems unpalatable.
So far my only grudge is it doesnt support my virtual usb syncrosoft dongle.
That would be very sad except that it looks so lewd.
Your sigline still blows. Be sure to look us up next time you’re in town.
Here’s some info for the hard-core techie with an interest in kernel level changes in Windows 7.
Video blog with Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7
The video is about 45 minutes long. The first third or so talks about improvements that are only relevant to big multi-multi-processor servers. The rest is about stuff that has some relevance to the desktop.
If final-release versions of Microsoft products are like betas, shouldn’t this beta be expected to be like an alpha? That’s what it sounds like on your machine, at best…
Ect. ect. ect. In a nutshell, that’s why Macs cost more. They may not be perfect, but there’s definitely some value in having software that doesn’t act like that… 