Windows 7 - Astonishing, Astounding, Awesome, Awful

I’ll look forward to your evaluation. I have a copy of Ultimate, signed by Mr. B, that has yet to be opened.

I downloaded the Enterprise evaluation disc and I must say there is a lot to like - but almost as much to hate.

I’ll leave it there, as I don’t want to salt your evaluation with any of my observations.

One thing is certain lots of copies are being sold. Microsoft has got to be happy.

I honestly TRIED to run 7 today. Unfortunately I have the 64bit version, which doesn’t run under VMplayer. 32bit is on its way.

I want to keep a text editor open throughout the process to give the review flavor :)

Yuck… I heard a bunch of Apple fanboys making fun of people who got Windows 7 today.

Apple users have to be the BIGGEST suckers on Earth. The iPhone is great and all… but let’s face it: Mac computers are expensive toys. They don’t matter, they are irrelevant.

Go waste your money on a MacBook and enjoy the smell of your own farts.

Im not a fanboy, but windows is not for you, your evaluations seem to be irriating, you take it way to seriously more then the average reviewer of this operating system, why bother, you seem like your not happy with anything you see, and pretty graphics bother’s you, when windows 7 is still compatible fully with a DirectX9 graphics card unit. Get with it bud or don’t bother, their our alot of fanboys out their who are upset about microsoft’s success, as their our probly other’s who are extremely happy. You may have several opinions that people may like to here, but let’s face it their’s always NEgativety surprisingly it’s in this article, and it’s on chris’s website, and it’s VERY UNFORTUNITE.

Tests…
results…
You need to be less serious and be happy with what you got.

Jake: your attitude of being happy with what one gets is why we have such horrible software. We get treated like dirt because we sit there and tolerate it.

Thanks for stopping by.

So, if you don’t like pretty what do you use? Linux command line? OS X uses ‘pretty’. Ubuntu uses ‘pretty’. I’m not really a fan of ‘pretty’ unless it’s a functional ‘pretty’ such as Expose under OSX.

Now, in the enterprise department ‘pretty’ is useless. I wouldn’t want my much needed CPU cycles to be bothered with the task of rendering Aero shake. But, in the consumer market, if it’s functional I don’t see an issue.

The excitement about Windows 7 seems more related to the fact that:

(1) it’s the first new operating system from MS in years (although, functionally, it’s really Vista with a lot of implemented fixes),
(2) it’s a relief from XP and Vista, for those that found it troublesome, and
(3) it’s something new, and some enthusiasts want to be first adopters.

I’m not a Microsoft fanboy at all, but the good thing about PC’s as opposed to Macs is that you can actually upgrade them. I can take my PC apart, buy new parts, put it all together again, and do more than I could before. If my Mac went out of date, I’d have to buy an entirely new one and pay a good thousand dollars or so… Linux, at the very least, is tolerable, but still has very little support for most things while Microsoft has support for damn near everything.

I will admit, Vista was a very rough start for Windows’ new era, being very graphics intensive and a major resource hog; but as an operating system, if you actually had the specs to run it, it was still a very great and very stable operating system. Those of you who say you refuse to use the new operating systems because of it’s instability better have said that with XP, because Windows XP was so much more unstable than Vista — and especially 7 — when it was first released.

My standpoint on this is the classic “don’t knock it ’til you try it” philosophy. I’ve used 7, and granted, while I still prefer XP for simplicity, I do intend on using the final release of 7 Ultimate just to have support for DirectX10.1 and OpenGL3.1, among so much more that XP can /not/ do… There’s a reason upgrades are made — they’re upgrades. Improvements. “Get with the times, or get out.”

I would have to say the biggest reason for it being the largest pre-order is because Amazon was one of the companies offering it with a huge discount (during a two-week period in June/July). I pre-ordered two copies of Home Premium Upgrade for $49.99 each. Even if I don’t end up installing it until SP1 comes out, I now have two copies for less than what one copy is currently selling for.

Ahh… so now that Microsoft finally has a GREAT OS and product its a bad thing to be a part of the crowd to get a first copy. But when Apple launches a new phone or iPod that is not much different than the one before, its a complete must to stand in line for hours to get a peek at it, and if you didn’t your the looser.

I agree with the Windows Rule, and only switched to Vista this year, because I didn’t have an XP disk. I have heard good things about Windows 7 though. I never went to test it though.

Looking forward to seeing reviews in the next few months or so.

You want to know what I think… I think you are an idiot for attempting to write about something you haven’t even tested.

” I don’t like graphics-intensive (or pretty). To me, it’s a waste of cpu cycles. ”

With windows 7 you have PLENTY cpu cycles to waste. Actually windows 7 will give you back 6 weeks of you life per year you waste sitting and twiddling your thumbs, waiting on an older os to give your computer back to you. That’s if you only use your computer 50 hrs per week.

Do this… open a command prompt and run this command:

Winsat mem

I got 15427.87 MB/s with 3 GB DDR3 and I7 processor.

I don’t know what it reports under Vista but Win 7 is better designed to take advantage of multi-core multi-thread processing. Device Manager / processor show
I have 8 processors running. That’s why video editing is done in less than half the time under Win 7 with I7 processors.

Windows 7 can scale up to 256 processors without performance penalty. ‘Windows 7 performs several tricks to keep threads running on the same execution pipelines
so that the underlying Nehalem processor can turn off transistors on lesser-used or inactive pipelines. The primary benefit of this feature is reduced energy consumption, with Windows 7 requiring 17 percent less power to run than Windows XP or Vista.”

I mostly ran Windows ME except on a laptop till 7 Rc came out. So I’m definitely not a Fanboy… but your lame report does have me riled up.

The TRUE sucker is one who can’t recognize talent. You are like the pinball company folks who were visited by a couple guys who had a little video game called pong. They laughed and said..”who would pay a quarter to play a ping pong game on a screen when they could do it on a table” The guys went on to form a company called Atari that TOTALLY put ALL the pinball companies out of business within 6 short years. You keep writing reviews like this one and your credibility will be shot is far less time. As a matter of fact, it’s already shot since you can’t take back what you have published…. and you have speculated on somthing you have 0 knowledge about.

> Until then, stop doing what you’re told.

OK…

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I never buy MS until six months or the first service pack. Would HOME USERS please stop trying to retort that one should “give it a try” or “be happy with what you’ve got”
The experience of a home user is SO STUNTED in comparison with what actual professionals do with their computers that their opinions sadly are a little irrelevant. I’m sure you think that you have a valid point to make but experience shows (twenty years of MS products after all) that if you have only home user experience than you are using about 5% of the potential of the machine. Those of us who work with the other 95% have had problems for years and years and years with new MS products and unless you give them time to iron out some of the kinks youll end up with a smeggy computer. This original article after all simply says to WAIT and see how it turns out rather than just rushing to the shops and spending your money on an UNTESTED software. SO a little more applied thought please gentlemen.

Wow, there’s alot of fanboys out there defending this product like it was a belief system they based their lives on.

I’m not upgrading any of my company’s 20 computers until after this OS has all of the bugs hammered out of it.

The fanboys can be the QA testers if they like.