Hello from Windows 7
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Lucky you. I deleted my copy of the ISO image a little while ago, and I'm beginning to regret not burning it to a spare DVD or CD. When it comes out, I'm going to see if I can get it - Vista's good, but Windows 7 looks and feels better. I'll also have an excuse to format the entire hard drive and start clean, with no manufacturer recovery partitions to clutter up my disk. The only challenge will be seeing if Windows 7's Homegroups will interact with the Vista set-up on the laptop
The ISO's mirrored in millions of places in torrent land if you've requested a key from MS it doesn't matter where the DL comes from.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Just completed the installation of Win 7 beta on my office laptop (my employer encourages "living on the edge" when it comes to technology) and although I never considered Vista to be slow before, now I am having second thoughts - Win 7 is so snappy that it is not even funny.
Tell me about it. Yesterday I got solid state drive and installed W7 on it for my main development machine and it's blazing fast: starts in under 20 seconds, shutdowns in a matter of seconds, VS starts instantaneously (I'm hardly able to see splash screen)... So if you want performance W7&SSD is way to go!
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Just completed the installation of Win 7 beta on my office laptop (my employer encourages "living on the edge" when it comes to technology) and although I never considered Vista to be slow before, now I am having second thoughts - Win 7 is so snappy that it is not even funny.
Windows 7 is a very nice platform, the scientific startup screen is quite memorably serene too. We've recently discovered that the RC will last sometime into 2010. I was quite pleased when Visual Lint installed first time too, so it looks like I'm skipping Vista for next laptop!
Having a bad bug day? Find answers this way... --- Elle A Du Shell --
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Cool - good to hear that. I've been putting off my new desktop purchase for a while now. Maybe I should get it soon so I can install Windows 7 too. Have you installed a lot of apps on it? And is it still fast after that?
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkI use it as my Windows OS running under VMWare Fusion on my MacBook Pro. I've got Office 2007 & Visual Studio installed, plus Avast AV. It's kinda nice :-) The only issues I've found are to do with virtualisation - I don't get the fancy graphics and also, the performance is equivalent to what you'd get if you had a Core 2 Duo with one core disabled. I tried turning on the 'two virtual processors' option in VMWare...but that made it much slower... Having said that, it's kinda cool. I run it full-screen (improves performance and means I don't have to deal with mixed Windows/OS X windows), but in it's own Space (a.k.a. desktop), so I can swap between Windows and OS X with a single key-chord.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Just completed the installation of Win 7 beta on my office laptop (my employer encourages "living on the edge" when it comes to technology) and although I never considered Vista to be slow before, now I am having second thoughts - Win 7 is so snappy that it is not even funny.
It's much better than (W)ista but it still has that stupid IE look. While the crumb trail is a little better I still find myself hitting that stupid browse bar which jumps to the internet. Something to try on 7, Has anyone found a way to move those buttons on Vista and IE. I like the firefox format better sinse it keeps them together.
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