Windows 7 is Coming - Comments Page 1

Thanks to your article a while ago about using Wubi to install Linux as a dual-boot (& Bob, you kindly answered a query I had about that, thank you) I've progressed to creating a partition myself & have installed Win7 as a dual-boot with Vista as the other OS; really the main thing I have to say is that it's terrific - for the last week I've only gone back to Vista to get a couple of things. I'm running all the applications I had previously & it does seem less CPU and RAM intensive. The theme colours are better (being highly superficial I like my desktop to look amazing)than the colour mixer options available in Vista. IMHO this is going to be the OS that people finally move to from XP.

I have Windows 7 beta installed in a partition so I can dual boot on my laptop. It is leaner and even faster than Vista...which I've been running since the day it launched - and have grown to love. When it launched, Vista put users thru driver-hell for about three months, but Win7 so far has been a walk in the park. It even found the Nvidia drivers for graphics display adapter... Vista never did that. It won't take long to love Win7 and you'll never go back to WinXP - it looks "cartoonish" after Vista or Win7.

I have Win 7 beta 64 bit installed, as well as Vista, Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit, and Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 3 64 bit. Compared to Vista, Win 7 is great, but I am really amazed at the lack of 64 bit software for Windows. I have used Ubuntu 64 bit for about a year and a half and it has much better support for 64 bit software. If I run two 32 bit apps at the same time in Win 7 It max's my Processors out and slows things to a crawl. I really don't think Windows 7 is going to mean the death of Linux. The development pace of Linux is so much faster than the turtle like 3 to 5 yr development pace of Windows that it is leaving Windows behind in the dust. Notice that even Adobe released a 64 bit flash for Linux but not yet for Windows.

I notice several of the ads at the top of this story were for Registry Cleaners. Will Win7 solve these problems?

EDITOR'S NOTE: I don't think so. There have been cries from the user community to ditch the Windows Registry in Windows7, but that has not happened. Linux and Mac systems get along fine without a registry, but MS seems to be stuck on this concept. Too bad...

How can you be serious about praising the earliest release of a beta Windows version, and merely mentioning Ubuntu Linux and not the most serious threat -- Mac OSX and the looming release of SNOW LEOPARD!

Now before you go brand loyal crazy that I dare mention the "A" word company...I have been a staunch Windows user and praiser for years. I beta tested Vista and liked it a lot.

But we have to be fair guys, Snow Leopard seems to be a soon coming FREE upgrade to Leopard users and despite the fact that it was announced as a relatively limited new feature product, focusing more on speed and foot print and other such issues, the latest buzz is that there will be more new features than expected.

Sorry for the truth hurts facts, but the real threat isn't that Linux will die, but that Apple will further in-crouch on Microsoft's market share and the various PC makers by extension! ...and they will do it be giving away software "For FREE"

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ummm... not sure that Apple is going to put much of a dent in the marketshare numbers by releasing a "free" upgrade to a $169 operating system. Now if Apple comes out with a $400 netbook that runs Snow Leopard, that would be interesting.

Bob Rankin, your an idiot. Get your information correct, "Watch the calendar. The Beta expires on August 1, 2009." http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx

EDITOR'S NOTE: Okay, I said the beta expires "after July." Doesn't that kind of imply August 1st? Oh, and I think you meant "you're" instead of "your" above.

Thanks Bob ! Nice article. You are a very fair and balanced IT Genius. Hope to grab a copy too!

Nice response to the IDIOT 'Longcats' Bob. Well done!

Thanks Bob for your very interesting article. I tried Ubuntu 8.10 in my machine doing dual boot with Windows Vista Home Basic. Ubuntu is right but I could not connect to Internet since I use a ZTE brand ADSL wireless modem and this Ubuntu release doesn't support this type of Internet connection.

Bob, My children want me to buy a new computer ..as mine is 6 years old. Daughter will buy one from Costco for me. I am a simple person.....need basic computer. My friend says to Wait until October for the new Microsoft 7. Do I have to Wait for that if I want a good one? She said that people with Vista are complaining. it is crap they said. What do you think I should do? Thanks so much.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The good news is that you can upgrade for free from Vista to Windows 7. I see no reason to wait if you want to make the purchase now.