[rtfire1]

I just played with an early windows 7 they have installed on a laptop here at workfor testing software to run on it. Blows the doors of of xp and I think lunix has something to go o crap to.

[lordmorgul]

"Blows the doors of of xp" - I should certainly hope so considering it is releasing 10 years afterward... during a period of enormous improvement in computing hardware capabilities.

"lunix has something to go o crap to" - well your opinion is your own, and valid as that... but I think Windows 7 looks like copied (and poorly so) features from KDE4 and will very soon look obselete itself as linux continues to improve while we wait for Microsoft to decide what other features to copy.

[saltzmann]

Hey wait a minute, I just started liking this Windows Mojave, really!! :D

[crazy4laptops]

oh wow, win7 is not going to be a linux terminator unless it works better than xp (which i highly doubt)

as of now, since i have actually reviewed win7, its not quite all its hyped up to be.
It runs sluggishly in a virutal environment w/ 1.5 gb of ram. (takes forever to boot)

one note, UAC is no longer annoying when tweaking advanced system settings

defragger- no frag map, but it does give a % completed/consolidated in the progress area

process count ~25-30 when idle (networking disabled and no av installed) ram usage- 20% of 1.5gb idle

if you want to know more of the ii (insider info) pm or reply

[taustin1382]

allow me to point out that most people use linux because they like it not because they dont like windows vista/xp etc. true some people may have migrated because of some issues they were having or something like that out of spite but they are few and far between. then again alot of people in the linux community are a part of that community because of what it stands for and will most likely not migrate to MS unless they are getting paid for it. I would be in that group. the only time I touch MS is when the meter is running or the wifes laptop needs help.

so with that in mind I dont think win7 or any other product will put redhat or any other distros out of business never mind disbanding linux all together.

[Lsatenstein]

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like an nail.
I presume that a windows 7 license will be good for at least 5-10 years, so, I am anticipating an amortized cost of about $20/year.
And I expect with W7, that the requirement for anti-virus software, a bane on MS systems, will disappear.

[whateverfool]

"And I expect with W7, that the requirement for anti-virus software, a bane on MS systems, will disappear."

Unless they rewrote a new kernel from scratch for it, this expectation is a fantasy.

[taustin1382]

bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha.......

yeah..... thats gonna happen...... best of luck with that :D

[rgreen4]

And has been proved in various contests and recommendations by security professionals, ALL operating systems are vunurable, and all should run security software.

Interesting that in the press release about the malware infected drivers for the Samsung picture frame, it was pointed out that only XP users need be concerned because Vista was immune to this particular threat.

[taustin1382]

"And has been proved in
various contests and recommendations by security professionals, ALL
operating systems are vunurable, and all should run security software."
absolutely. linux has this feature built in. selinux runs in the background all the time by default.




"Interesting that in the
press release about the malware infected drivers for the Samsung
picture frame, it was pointed out that only XP users need be concerned
because Vista was immune to this particular threat."
and it said what about linux and osx?

[WinTard]

Well, Linux can't be killed since it is free... Anyway, I love Linux, and don't want it to disappear.

As for Windows 7 being something completely different, I would say so. I've been using the various betas and have nothing but good things to say.

First, it is lightning quick. Faster than Linux and XP IMHO. Also completely stable and reliable. Does away with all the UAC annoyances. You can run as a regular user, and still do all admin functions, without having to switch user, or logout.

Hmm, what else can I say? That users have reported it running in as little as 512MB RAM? And running smoothly?

limeimac97776 wrote:
[100.|m-207560] Apr 13, 2009 11:51 PM [100.|m-176190] in response to: [PCWorld|m-176190] Re: The PC World Challenge: 72 Hours of Windows 7!
I have been using the windows 7 beta for almost 2 months now. And i LOVE it!!! It is a major improvement from vista in my book. I like the new GUI and the fact that you can have so many browser windows open at one time and only see 1 icon. ALL my programs and drivers work with windows 7. And i notice a massiveimprovement in gaming performance from XP. The system reqiurements say 1gb of RAM but you can actually run it on 512mb. I have installed it on ALL my computers and it runs amazingly on ALL of them. With 512mb of RAM windows 7 disables even more unnecesary startup processes so you only use 256mb of RAM. As a former Die Hard XP supporter i can say that i will be running windows 7 as soon as it comes out. (as long as they dont change it too much.) One earlier comment said that they liked thre somewhat ugly. I liked the 3d start menu and icons in XP. I liked the 3d look of the startbar and windows too. But xp's themes were rather childish looking. If only they could make it both transparent and 3d.