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Clarissa F · Jan 11, 2009, 10:22 PM // 22:22

I just installed it on my laptop, and so far it's running like a final release, not a beta. No driver issues like Vista had(and sometimes still has). It's faster than XP, and graphics drivers for Vista seem to work well. GW looks great, of course. Thinking of installing WAR. Anyone else try this out, yet?

Apoc · Jan 12, 2009, 12:28 AM // 00:28

Meh, they removed my beloved classic menu.

I installed it on a virtual machine and it's great so far.

pumpkin pie · Jan 12, 2009, 01:04 AM // 01:04

anyone explain windows 7 vs vista?

is it an upgrade of vista or upgrade of xp? or something new?

fenix · Jan 12, 2009, 04:09 AM // 04:09

Windows 7 is the next operating system, Vista was filler between XP and 7. In other words, Windows 7 won't suck massive nuts like Vista did, because they're actually working on it being a replacement OS for XP, and the next big OS upgrade.

komma · Jan 12, 2009, 04:12 AM // 04:12

windows 7 will be pretty much what vista(longhorn lol) tried to be in short.

kazi_saki · Jan 12, 2009, 07:54 AM // 07:54

so vista will become the next ME then? damn. I should just reinstall xp on this lappie then in the meantime

pumpkin pie · Jan 12, 2009, 07:56 AM // 07:56

hrmz, so i bought an outdated program! damn you microsoft!

fenix · Jan 12, 2009, 07:59 AM // 07:59

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Originally Posted by kazi_saki

so vista will become the next ME then? damn. I should just reinstall xp on this lappie then in the meantime

Actually I said this to a couple friends when they first released Vista - that it would be exactly like Windows Me, in that it was a poorly made operating system to 'fill space' before the next big one.

zwei2stein · Jan 12, 2009, 08:29 AM // 08:29

I take it this is kinda exaggerated:

Abedeus · Jan 12, 2009, 08:42 AM // 08:42

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Originally Posted by fenix

Actually I said this to a couple friends when they first released Vista - that it would be exactly like Windows Me, in that it was a poorly made operating system to 'fill space' before the next big one.

I think anyone with at least minimal knowledge would say that.

The rest paid a LOT for Alpha version of Windows 7.

fenix · Jan 12, 2009, 08:50 AM // 08:50

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Originally Posted by Abedeus

I think anyone with at least minimal knowledge would say that.

The rest paid a LOT for Alpha version of Windows 7.

Paid? Who pays for Alpha of an OS? It was leaked onto the internet weeks ago....

zwei2stein · Jan 12, 2009, 09:06 AM // 09:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by fenix

Paid? Who pays for Alpha of an OS? It was leaked onto the internet weeks ago....

I think he meant Vista buyers.

Abedeus · Jan 12, 2009, 09:28 AM // 09:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by zwei2stein

I think he meant Vista buyers.

Kinda. More or less. That's the point.

Fril Estelin · Jan 12, 2009, 09:40 AM // 09:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by fenix

Actually I said this to a couple friends when they first released Vista - that it would be exactly like Windows Me, in that it was a poorly made operating system to 'fill space' before the next big one.

Vista filled XP security holes and paved the way for the kernel rewrite whose results we'll only see on seven. Bad business? probably. Bad OS? Not really.

Windows Me was an accident.

Multitouch is cool, but it won't work with the current generation of touchscreens. They need to be a lot cleaner, just imagine what people will have on their fingers and they're going to use them on the screen?

Cool UI though.

ElinoraNeSangre · Jan 13, 2009, 12:49 AM // 00:49

LOL Ballmer Peak always makes me giggle.

Win7 works great for me. It's faster, definately. It's way more stable than Vista was at this state (I played a lot of GW during Vista beta and pre-beta), and so far I've had few problems (a few driver weirdnesses).

I'm running GW and Lord of the Rings Online and they're running great. A few games I've heard problems with, but that's to be expected in a beta.

Brianna · Jan 13, 2009, 03:05 AM // 03:05

Vista did provide a good 64-bit OS to tide over for that mean time, you can't deny that.

I do hope that Windows 7 is at least somewhat better, all the UI changes and those features are entirely irrelevant to me, since you can customize all of that anyway, and those features existed eons ago in third party programs and such anyways. It's all about functionality of the OS for me first, almost like gameplay > graphics.

I would be kicking myself more if I had bought Vista-32bit, but since I got 64 bit I actually felt like it was of some use, was no point in 32 bit really.

mrmango · Jan 13, 2009, 04:56 AM // 04:56

Well this is news to me, yay bigger numbers: 64 bit will be big. Not that I'm too knowledgeable about this sort of stuff anyway.