Thread: Any one running Win7 yet?

I have a test machine at work. It has trouble installingthings because they changes permissions, causing developers lots of headaches. It's also slow as he'll to load, more than a minute.

I was sooo close to grabbing an upgrade copy at Best Buy yesterday but opted against it because I was already upgrading my storage and I have a lot of gift giving in my near future (birthday and a baby shower between now and Xmas). I probably won't worry about it until Spring.

Judging by the pricing and upgrade decisions made by MS, and the absolutely huge surge of interest for Ubuntu, I'm guessing Win7 will have a tough time

There's no upgrade path from XP to 7
you have to buy a full priced copy of 7, and do a clean install
At the peak (trough?) of the recession, this seems bonkers, and I think the sheer cost is the driving force behind the interest in Linux

I must have seen half-a-dozen mainstream news sources comparing Win7 with Ubuntu in the last few days

Examples
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...indows7-review
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ts-user-nerve/

I don't think 7 will flop as hard as vista, but it certainly won't gain much traction either, if these early signs of discontent continue

Originally Posted by Ynot

Judging by the pricing and upgrade decisions made by MS, and the absolutely huge surge of interest for Ubuntu, I'm guessing Win7 will have a tough time

There's no upgrade path from XP to 7
you have to buy a full priced copy of 7, and do a clean install
At the peak (trough?) of the recession, this seems bonkers, and I think the sheer cost is the driving force behind the interest in Linux

I must have seen half-a-dozen mainstream news sources comparing Win7 with Ubuntu in the last few days

Examples
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...indows7-review
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ts-user-nerve/

I don't think 7 will flop as hard as vista, but it certainly won't gain much traction either, if these early signs of discontent continue

I exported my settings and some document files from XP via the user migration program, and win7 got the stuff... I had to fix some things but it's smoothly working.

Had problems running old dvd programs like k-probe etc.

Never really used Vista so I can't compare.

Well I picked up a copy at lunch today, so we'll see if MS got there act together. Hope this all works out.

I'm reconsidering picking up the family pack, 3 licenses for $150. I only have two machines, but it's only $30 more than a single upgrade, and you can use it on XP or Vista (my netbook runs XP). I'm sure I can find a home for the final license

It's a very good system, it hardly has any incompatibility issues for the normal user, it runs much smoother than Vista, and it has a lot of neat security features. Overall, it's what Vista should've been.

I've been using it since beta myself, and I'm very very pleased.

Never the less, I suggest you use Ubuntu if you're not gonna be playing any games or use any programs that might have incompatibility issues. The gaming issue is all that is holding me back from going Ubuntu really.

Holy crap, $119? Its two major comptators are free and $29

I went ahead and grabbed the family pack. It took some tracking down, too--three stores were out. Hopefully I can get it loaded on my desktop tomorrow and the netbook by this weekend.