Windows 7 Pre-Beta, Unveiled

[ITdommy]

Well... I remember the evil comments when XP was first announced... "They've put some cosmetics over windows 2000..." and "Another unstable Microsoft's piece of software" etc. I've been using Vista for over a year now in an enterprise and home enviroment and I really don't see any difference in the process of growing from relatively ustable "piece of software" to a more stable and pleasant to use operating system from the XP life cycle. You people hate Vista because it probably crashed a few times because of some ill-written driver, and then some "expert" told you about how Vista sucks and suddenly we have a nation of Vista haters. You people don't know sh.. Vista is far more user friendly and secure than any Windows before. It is going to be the same case with Windows 7, and I'm looking forward to it. For those of you who want to live in the past you can go and crawl back in your caves, start your pentium 3, and enjoy all the benefits of Win XP.

 

[Guest]

heh, slide 15's error is probably part of the demo for "you can lasso an error to get suggestions". no handwriting recognition software is perfect

 

[Guest]

I hope they give a discount to the poor people that got ripped off on Vista. I wasted $170 on Vista Ultimate and looking at this just ticks me off.

 

[master9716]

This is pre-beta not even beta just to show how its coming along. and yes they did say it was going to be as secure as Vista.

#2. Vista runs perfect and faster than xp. It doesnt slow down over time and you dont get viruses if you use x64 version.Its just that one nerd has a problem with it and then another nerd has a problem with it and they made Other nerds think Vista was bad or slow for some reason.

my 300.0 laptop runs vista super fast. But it was extremly slow with the instalation it came with and it did have problems , A reinstall and zero problems .

 

[Guest]

I just need ONE feature from the new operating system: make it safe enough so I don't have to have an antivirus and firewall.

I DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE REST OF BS. I do not care about backgrounds, new icons, yet another Start menu etc etc etc.

Stop moving things around. Even if something is in a perfect location, I am used to it and I don't use it often.

It would be nice to have: 1) simpler sound management with multi-path sound going to TV, speakers, BT at the same time; 2) simpler codec management, I want to know what codec is used for what in which application etc; 3) faster boot; 4) image backup; 5) reliable uninstall that removes everything even if the original uninstall doesn't.

 

[dieseldre2k]

[citation][nom]anonymous3222[/nom]Microsoft needs to just develop a system that is lightweight, cheap but secure initially for $50. Then offer people packages online that they can download for $10-50 to add extra features like DirectX gaming, Office, Administrative tools, etc. [/citation]

bad idea for direct x. microsoft wants it to become standard. u dont make standards by charging extra for things like directx. office is already charged seperately for. Administrative Tools is basically a small error log. are u sure u want to charge for something so small?

anyway, i guess u didnt read slide 20 because microsoft IS doing this, but they're offering the extras for FREE through WIndows Live Essentials. i rather have them charge $100 and get all the extras free and not have to whip out my credit card every time i want an extra feature. heck, u'll probably end up paying more than $100 anyway after u get all the extras u want with ur idea.

 

[Guest]

Ghacks reported that 7 will offload Aero to any DX 10 capable card leaving system resources for REAL computing. Curious considering Laraby (sp?). Let's see how this affects, if at all, gaming. I can take or leave Aero just so long as I can set Show Menu Display, Taskbar, etc at 100 ms or less. I HATE TO WAIT.

As far as security, that's the nature of the beast. I'm more concerned with DRM or the actual "reporting" MS will be doing. As far as a custom install, one size fits all I think if what we'll get. So long as I can disable services, etc. then I can deal with a few gigs of useless crap though nobody like a bloated registry but again I accept it.

For now it's XP with a patched uxtheme, and icons that gets me a near Vista look at the whooping expense of 5 megs of mem. I have no doubt that I'll be sticking with this until I'm forced not to. At which time my laptop will go Ubuntu, I don't use it enough to justify an "upgrade", and desktops will... we'll see.

All in all things look to be heading in the right direction, though only time will tell.

 

[Guest]

I just wish MS would get back to the basics.

Allow an advanced install option that starts out with all non-essential services disabled. Stop inbreeding the OS with IE, WMP, Outlook, and all the other stuff, so that we can run without that overhead.

I'm tired of my OS being the most greedy thing on my system. I want my system to be able to use 99% of its computing power to run my PROGRAMS, and 1% to run the OS. Yet every new release, MS increases the footprint of the OS and takes a larger portion of my system resources.

I swear, if it was possible to run modern applications with MS-DOS 6.22 I'd go back to that. 😛

 

[kurtyboh]

dextermat, if you would have read the article before bashing it you would have seen that it is designed to be compatible with ANY machine that can run vista... and in my experience many machines that are not vista certified run vista just slowly. It's only ancient machines left to rot.

 

[Guest]

Umm...it's Vista with a new GUI.

 

[Guest]

What about sound? We took a giant leep backwards with Vista not being able to use 5.1 surround and trading off for their supposed HD sound.I recently went back to an XP system with my old 5.1 surround and boy what a difference. Someone please rub Microsoft's nose in this and get some good sound support back in their OS.

 

[Guest]

Mostly junk with a couple of oxymoronic changes which bring good. Users are too stupid to be able to use XP's easy LAN tools, so MS will make that "easier" but they are so sophisticated that they search for things across multiple computers -- oxymoronic. Nothing about speed (will Linux be faster?), capability (as in, will 7 really support 8 or 16 core processors? 8 is the minimum that computers will ship with in 2010) or memory requirements (Vista needs 2Gb to run decently; will 7 require 4? 8? 96?). But lots about the trash on the desktop. MS needs to decide what the target market is, even if it means two or three sharply distinguishable products.

 

[Khyzan]

i hope it can run most games, vista can't run most of old games, that's why i still sticked to win xp

 

[badboy4dee]

looks like a mac

 

[Guest]

Sorry to put a dent in your door, but the issues you speak about regarding security are ONLY an issue due to your usage habits.

The net is the wild west, anything goes, the experts play ground. Welcome to it n00bs! Buy an Apple, run Linux, install openBSD...makes ZERO diffrence to the malitious coder. The user will gladly install the exploit for them. The security hole is you.

 

[Guest]

Sill can't beat Linux when it comes to eye candy and price not to mention freedom to create and alter.

 

[Guest]

OS for the masses...huh..good luck. Complainers ought to try their hand at making their own operating system. Maybe Windows would be less of a target for all the malcontents.

 

[Guest]

charif

 

[Guest]

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