Anyone else preordering Windows 7?

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I just paid $50 for my copy of Windows 7 for $50 that will ship on 10/22/2009. The reviews look great, and I actually like Windows Vista so I wanted to try out it's bigger brother. My Dad is a die hard Linux fan, and he is dying over the fact that I am sticking with Windows. From what I've seen lately, Microsoft has really seemed to be getting their act together and giving the consumer what they want.
 
michaelmcgo said:
I just paid $50 for my copy of Windows 7 for $50 that will ship on 10/22/2009.
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Are you insane?


... I actually like Windows Vista...
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Apparently so.



Microsoft has really seemed to be getting their act together and giving the consumer what they want.
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Assuming that consumers want to spend half of their lives waiting for their PC's to boot, security breaches, virus attacks, nearly-daily patches and updates, crashes, networking disasters, and very slooooooooooooowwww performance. But, then again, the occasional unexpected and unexplained system crash does add a certain spice to one's life.
 
I'll wait a few months to see if W7 is any real improvement over Vista, and to give them time to work the initial bugs out (although they are still working bugs out of Vista....)
 
I thought about pre-ordering, anticipating a new build in the next year, but the special price is only an Upgrade package. I'm not certain it would install on a new build...

Besides, the final retail pricing will probably be much lower than the currently listed msrp. And the product isn't available yet - no reviews, never seen it run, and the final package contents may not be decided yet. So the savings isn't worth the uncertainty. Not for me anyway.
 
I've been running the Windows 7 RC 2 for about 2 weeks now and am liking it. The taskbar customizations are pretty cool and the interface sure is lovely. I'm running it on an old Athlon XP 1.79GHz machine with 512MB Ram, Nvidia FX5500 graphics and a 40GB hard drive. So far it's working well for me even though I have half ram it wants. Watched a few shows on Hulu and Youtube with it and surfed a lot and aside from the lagging from low ram I'm liking it.

If anyone wants to check it out go here: Windows 7 RC2 Download.

Heber
 
I ran the Beta test of 7. Dressed up Vista to me. If you like Vista, you'll love 7.
 
If I had Vista I would probably upgrade to W7.

However, I have XP on all my machines, so will be sticking with it till I get a new cpu.
 
Gollnick said:
Are you insane?
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Are you innately rude?



I pre-ordered a copy a few days ago. I've been watching the whole saga of the beta builds and release candidates closely, though I haven't installed any of them. People that I trust think very highly of 7 so far, with the usual Windows caveats.

For me the interface adjustments alone are worth the price of admission. I will no longer buy Macs (screw me once, shame on you...) and Ubuntu is impractical for my needs on a main machine.

To be fair I have not had a bad experience with Vista. The only problems I've had have been minor compatibility issues and simple annoyance with resource bloat.
 
bobofish said:
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Judging by MS's past track record, I think it more likely that anyone willing to pay $50 to preorder an as yet unreleased Windows product is, in fact, insane. Or at least not thinking clearly.

As for myself, I make it a habit to avoid any MS release until it has had a few years to mature and a few service packs to hopefully unkludge the product. I just switched to Windows XP a few months ago and won't be upgrading further for at least a few years. Or until it's forced on me.
 
roughedges said:
Judging by MS's past track record, I think it more likely that anyone willing to pay $50 to preorder an as yet unreleased Windows product is, in fact, insane. Or at least not thinking clearly.

As for myself, I make it a habit to avoid any MS release until it has had a few years to mature and a few service packs to hopefully unkludge the product. I just switched to Windows XP a few months ago and won't be upgrading further for at least a few years. Or until it's forced on me.
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Good thinking. And look for XP to be supported for another 10 years or so. Vista has turned out to be another ME. The 7 upgrades are good, but like you said, a few SP's will be needed to fine-tune it.
 
I don't want to upgrade, I don't want to upgrade, I don't want to upgrade......

I've been using WindowsXP since it came out, and I love it. But I know when Windows 7 comes out, they'll probably drop support of XP and I'll have to.
 
I have read that Vista has been the cause of the single biggest migration to Macs in the company's history. If W7 is a dressed up Vista, I may be next in line to jump ship as I have personally found Vista to be a nightmare of confounded logic and useless utilities that get in the way of what I (and I suspect most people) need a computer for 95% of the time. I do admire those that have been able to master and make the best of Vista, but unless W7 makes my life easier and isn't infested with bugs the way Vista is, I and alot of other people will be saying goodbye to Windows for good.
 
wildmanh said:
I've been running the Windows 7 RC 2 for about 2 weeks now and am liking it. The taskbar customizations are pretty cool and the interface sure is lovely...

Heber
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But I don't want taskbar customizations and cool user interfaces... at least until the system is secure and reliable.

Make it reliable and make it secure; then -- and only then -- should you work on making it cool and lovely.
 
Hell no. :thumbdn:

I'd rather flush my money down a toilet then give it to Microsoft.
 
Gollnick said:
But I don't want taskbar customizations and cool user interfaces... at least until the system is secure and reliable.

Make it reliable and make it secure; then -- and only then -- should you work on making it cool and lovely.
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You have a good point. Since my experience with it is on a dieing 6 year old machine (onboard sound crapped out and bios resets every few weeks) and only includes basic internet surfing, chatting and brief movie/tv show watching I can't comment on stability under heavy use. I'm thinking about adding another hard drive to my main computer and testing it out under word processing, gaming, some 3d graphic stuff and seeing how it fairs. Right now XP SP2 runs really well on my main machine.

One of the things I like about Windows 7 is how easy it is to install compared to XP. The GUI for setting up hard drives (partitioning, formating and all that) is so much easier and simpler to use the XP or Windows 2000 ever were.

With in the first few days of installing Windows 7 RC 2 on my 6 year old machine I had a few IE chrashes and window while browsing the hard drive also crashed. But after an update that stopped happening. The last 3 times I've used it, I've had no problems surfing, chatting and such. I'm really impressed that Windows 7 works on my old busted machine. I'm dual booting it with SuSE 11.1 Linux and SuSE is driving me crazy but Windows 7 isn't.

Heber
 
wildmanh said:
One of the things I like about Windows 7 is how easy it is to install compared to XP. The GUI for setting up hard drives (partitioning, formating and all that) is so much easier and simpler to use the XP or Windows 2000 ever were.
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Since you're a Linux user, I have to ask. What's so hard about using a win98 boot disk and fdisk? There's something like 5 options in the whole dang program. Or maybe I'm just becoming a technological anachronism.
 
Meh. When Windows XP isn't inexplicably broken, it seems to run ok, if a little slow. I'm running Puppy Linux right now (because Windows XP is inexplicably broken), and it runs tremendously faster.

My PC barely meets the system requirements. I don't predict any gains in performance from "upgrading" to Windows 7. It also doesn't appear to be possible to go directly from XP to 7 without wiping everything, and any other perceived benefits don't appear to outweigh the trouble of transferring and reinstalling everything, let alone the compatibility issues.

And then with the past few versions of Windows, it might be better to wait for a service pack.

Furthermore, Google has recently announced their intent to release a new operating system for free.

It just doesn't seem to be worthwhile.
 
About the only thing I need Windows, (of any version), for is to be able to run Flight Simulator.

When I buy my next computer I'm going to run virtual machines, one will have XP (probably) solely for FS and the other will be Linux of some flavour for everything else.
 
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