Windows 7

[Bibs]

Anyone tried it yet?

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/

Edited January 10, 2009 by oneshot
Really Fixed link!!

[gghc87]

works for me ........

[Bibs]

In case you're looking...

32 bit - http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3...Ultimate-GB1CUL FRE_EN_DVD.iso

64 bit - http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3...Ultimate-GB1CUL XFRE_EN_DVD.ISO

[Iconic Ride]

What's a realistic minimum memory to prevent turning your machine into a glacier?

[dodgy]

links are not working

[USAndretti42]

Well it's Microsoft. What do you expect?

Fixed the link in the first post. Can't work out where the other two are supposed to send you so over to Bibs.

[pdgessler]

The link problems might not be Bibs' fault

The microsoft site has been totally flooded all day, so that probably has something to do with the link issues.

I installed it today and it's running great on my laptop, although I do have 2 GB of RAM. I'm not sure how it will work on other systems.

[rogerch]

[Jonathan]

Could be worse, buy Apple....

[fmxa]

Lipstick on a pig ....

[Mark Blanchard]

So does that mean Vista is yesterdays news?

Just as it was becoming more reliable too.

[Iconic Ride]

I've heard that the re-release of "Win 95" is only weeks away. Retro is the way forward boys! Break out the floppies!

[Vulcan Grey]

I installed it last night... the 64 bit version of Windows 7.

Strangely enough it won't recognize my networking device (built into my Asus P5KC motherboard, on an Intel 965 chipset).

Windows 7 loaded drivers for everything else except the network. So I have no way to even have it look for drivers or register windows... You can't do anything without a network card or access to the internet these days.

I booted back into windows XP, and can't get any drivers that work. All the Asus drivers for Vista 64 bit won't install because they check which operating system you have.

[bzguy]

Strangely enough it won't recognize my networking device (built into my Asus P5KC motherboard, on an Intel 965 chipset).

Windows 7 loaded drivers for everything else except the network.

.. that's the way MicroSoft handles virus/spyware intrusions : they just disable networking devices

I know, I'm biased, I'm a Mac user

[Vulcan Grey]

Just got it working, posting this from IE8 in Windows 7.

Found a version of my networking driver that was for Vista 64 and works. Now I can do windows update online and get the other drivers they forgot.

[pdgessler]

Well, after a two days in the real world (my classes ),

The Good: Boots faster than XP and Vista

All my programs work!

I really like the new taskbar setup.

The Bad: I can't find workable drivers for my Bluetooth mouse. (Not too big a deal)

Programs sometimes take a while to close or Windows thinks they have frozen. (They close eventually though)

The Ugly: My trackpad driver randomly will not load on startup. I have to tab my way around the UI and find restart. After a restart it seems to load properly.

Some setup applications or graphics-intensive programs will randomly cause the graphics driver to unload itself. After this happens, I get a little 800x600 window to reload the driver. After that everything works fine.

The Bottom Line: Most of the issues I have experienced have been driver-related, so unfortunately your mileage may vary. Fortunately though, most (if not all) driver issues will be resolved before the final release. I think Microsoft is really onto something here, and if you have a non-essential system to play around with, go for it! However, if you have lots of sensitive data, odd hardware combinations, or irreplaceable programs, I would wait for the final release comes out.

[Vulcan Grey]

Windows 7 64 bit refuses to shut down for me now. it either just sits there, or if it does shut down, the screen goes blank but the computer is still powered on... as in everything, fans, and discs, are still running.

[Bibs]

32 bit is working fine apart from I can't get the gadgets to work though!

[Iconic Ride]

"Beta" is short for "here there be dragons!" Run away! Run away!

[redshift]

No wonder old Bill is so rich.

He must save a fortune by not doing enough testing and evaluation of MS products.

Then gets the customers to do all the functional and interoperability testing - genious

He must have taken management courses at TVR

[Bibs]

I'm trying to install '7' on my netbook and it's not working, popping up with 'Windows cannot change the boot configuration' and then cancelling out. Any ideas?

[rogerch]

Are you installing from a CD? and can you get into the BIOS on the netbook?

[Bibs]

I'm installing from an external HDD as the netbook doesn't have a CD/DVD. I've googled and it's a problem that the installer can't update the Master Boot Record so I'm trying to work around that!

ETA And the solution...

http://mbrwizard.com/