Thread: Windows 7 Public Release

Just in case anyone wanted to try it out. They just made the almost completed version of 7 available to the public for free until 2010.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win.../download.aspx

I've seen it. Much much more stable than Vista, but it still has all those Windows problems. My prediction is a corporate flop, although personal users will still use it because they don't know what a registry is.

Just a heads up,
most Anti-Virus programs won't work on Windows 7
a good number have Win 7 support in beta, but no final products as yet

That being said, I'd advice against native installs
use a virtual machine instead

Or parallel/dual boot from a OS with a format that Windows can't read. I assume Windows 7 still can't read ext* or OSX journaled?

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I've seen it. Much much more stable than Vista was years ago.

Fixed.

I've used W7, and pretty much welcome to Vista SP1/SP2. I'm sorry for MS that it took a re-skinned Vista for many to realize that.

Huh? I've already been using it for like a month.

Originally Posted by Ynot

Just a heads up,
most Anti-Virus programs won't work on Windows 7
a good number have Win 7 support in beta, but no final products as yet

That being said, I'd advice against native installs
use a virtual machine instead

The latest NOD32 works in 7, which is what I use. Any that work in Vista should either work in 7, or have 7 version out quick, as they kept almost perfect Vista compatibility.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I've seen it. Much much more stable than Vista, but it still has all those Windows problems. My prediction is a corporate flop, although personal users will still use it because they don't know what a registry is.

I don't know what you're talking about, Vista is perfectly stable. Also, I'm tired of your shit about how registry is apparently making Windows fail hard, and how it's making PCs last only 2 years. Registry isn't much different from the way GNU/Linux stores things, the files are just protected from normal users. It's basically an idiot-proof version of GNU/Linux's information. The real reason Windows used to be unstable is because of DLL dependancy, because multiple things use the same copy of one DLL. The only way to fuck up your registry is to try to, and it's not like a virus on GNU/Linux would have trouble deleting the files, the same way a virus can corrupt registry entries.

I'm not as knowledgeable about computer software as some may be here, but from my personal experience if you don't try to screw with anything big Vista runs fine. I'm currently typing from a system that has an almost two year old copy of Vista (with customized skins and sounds and a load of programs installed), current uptime is close to 300 hours, and it's running perfectly fine.

Linux on the other hand, crashes like every hour for me whenever I try to use it. I think if you know enough and spend enough time with Linux, it's probably better in terms of customization and showing off nifty gadgets. But for the average user on the average day, the compatibility and ease of use Windows offers is more important.

Originally Posted by Demon Parasite

The latest NOD32 works in 7, which is what I use. Any that work in Vista should either work in 7, or have 7 version out quick, as they kept almost perfect Vista compatibility.

I don't know what you're talking about, Vista is perfectly stable. Also, I'm tired of your shit about how registry is apparently making Windows fail hard, and how it's making PCs last only 2 years. Registry isn't much different from the way GNU/Linux stores things, the files are just protected from normal users. It's basically an idiot-proof version of GNU/Linux's information. The real reason Windows used to be unstable is because of DLL dependancy, because multiple things use the same copy of one DLL. The only way to fuck up your registry is to try to, and it's not like a virus on GNU/Linux would have trouble deleting the files, the same way a virus can corrupt registry entries.

It's not that Windows registry gets corrupted, it's that Windows doesn't remove things from it... EVER. It gets cluttered and fragmented, so Windows slows the fuck down. *Nix store things in pconfig files, they get removed, loaded, and added when needed and since they are files on a *Nix system, they never ever get fragmented.

DLLs suck, everyone who knows anything about software knows that. They aren't the reason for Windows instability. They make the individual programs crash, but Windows hiccups due to it's registry, and it's memory management.

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