Windows 7 pre-order

[eps]

theboyfold said:

You mean you can pay for Windows?!

I'm actually tempted as I have 2 Vista machines running Home Premium that I can't stand but without having a play with the Windows 7 beta I'm not sure I'm willing to pay.

Can I still get the beta from anywhere?

Go for the RC not the Beta..

here : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/downloa... until August 20th.

[Scraggles]

was the stable rc release and not the beta apparently

[LukeBird]

Scraggles said:

win 7 Premium RRP £150 - get it for £50
win 7 Pro RRP £220 - get it for £100

got the beta installed on the new pc, thinking about getting one soon for it

That pricing looks remarkably attractive...
XP Pro to 7may well be worth it!

[Man-At-Arms]

HRG. said:

It's ME on an NT kernel.

best analogy i've heard
have to remember that one !

[Tycho]

Simon Says said:

netherfield said:

If I have read things right,there is no upgrade path from either Vista or XP it has to be a clean installation,if you have the hard disk space/partitions available a dual boot set up maybe worthwhile.

Yes and that includes Beta to Rc versions also(fresh install)so dual booting is an option.

Personally I would never do an upgrade and always a fresh install.


It seems to have sold out everywhere already which is a shame as I would have bought it at that price. Probably keep Vista until I can get an OEM copy. Vista has been great on my PC, rock solid and pretty quick. Don't know what people do to it if they think it's flakey.

[LordGrover]

Mojooo said:

W7 is very very similar to Vista in terms of how it looks and works, infact it is almost identical - it is more quicker and reliable though.

Have you used Win7? It's radically different. There may be a few superficial similarities with Vista but Win7 is leagues ahead.
I have a sales office of computer illiterates who have been running Win7 for three months - support calls have fallen to almost none (from maybe 10-20 a week with Vista previously). From that angle it's at least as good as XP.

[Scraggles]

this pc is vista, it works well and no complaints, the second pc has xp and win 7 on dual boot, that is the intended recipeint of the vista package

[jamieboy]

LordGrover said:

Have you used Win7? It's radically different.

Go on.

[eps]

Tycho said:

Simon Says said:

netherfield said:

If I have read things right,there is no upgrade path from either Vista or XP it has to be a clean installation,if you have the hard disk space/partitions available a dual boot set up maybe worthwhile.

Yes and that includes Beta to Rc versions also(fresh install)so dual booting is an option.

Personally I would never do an upgrade and always a fresh install.


It seems to have sold out everywhere already which is a shame as I would have bought it at that price. Probably keep Vista until I can get an OEM copy. Vista has been great on my PC, rock solid and pretty quick. Don't know what people do to it if they think it's flakey.

Pro is still available to pre-order. ETA: Actually it might not be, Amazon was lying to me...


Pro will be the one for me : XP mode.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions#Co...


Interesting.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions#Up...

Edited by eps on Thursday 16th July 09:39

[eps]

Does anyone know if this will be available in MAPS? I've got about 4 PCs, so it might be worth getting MAPS instead...

[LordGrover]

jamieboy said:

LordGrover said:

Have you used Win7? It's radically different.

Go on.

It works.

Okay, so not that radical but a pleasant change. When we rolled Vista out to the first set of guinea pigs my life was hell for weeks if not months. Win7 users, notably those from XP have had no issues.

For those with legacy apps there is one thing which I consider pretty handy and that's the Virtual PC wotsit that runs my old XP application extremely well without having to fire up a whole VM. Just click the app icon and it fires up sweet as a nut (transparent to the user).

[beanbag]

I've done my pre-order.

I bought Win 7 Pro for my main PC, and Win 7 Premium for the netbook.

I'll keep the Media PC on Vista since some of my software doesn't like it. (Tried the RC), and it runs fine on Vista anyway.

[jamieboy]

LordGrover said:

jamieboy said:

LordGrover said:

Have you used Win7? It's radically different.

Go on.

It works.

Okay, so not that radical but a pleasant change. When we rolled Vista out to the first set of guinea pigs my life was hell for weeks if not months. Win7 users, notably those from XP have had no issues.

For those with legacy apps there is one thing which I consider pretty handy and that's the Virtual PC wotsit that runs my old XP application extremely well without having to fire up a whole VM. Just click the app icon and it fires up sweet as a nut (transparent to the user).

Oh, right. I thought you meant it was radically different.

[Greedydog]

"Sold Out" on pre order? What? Has Microsoft's DVD burning machine broken down? And here was me thinking they'd just make more.....

Edited by Greedydog on Thursday 16th July 09:40

[eps]

Greedydog said:

"Sold Out"? What? Has Microsoft's DVD burning machine broken down? And here was me thinking they'd just make more.....

I guess they've hit their pre-order limit, for the moment, and will ask for more capacity.. I'm sure M$ won't say no!

[posterboy]

Windows XP Pro, almost 8 years old and can not be beaten

[Greedydog]

eps said:

Greedydog said:

"Sold Out"? What? Has Microsoft's DVD burning machine broken down? And here was me thinking they'd just make more.....

I guess they've hit their pre-order limit, for the moment, and will ask for more capacity.. I'm sure M$ won't say no!

My point exactly...

[Mojooo]

jamieboy said:

LordGrover said:

jamieboy said:

LordGrover said:

Have you used Win7? It's radically different.

Go on.

It works.

Okay, so not that radical but a pleasant change. When we rolled Vista out to the first set of guinea pigs my life was hell for weeks if not months. Win7 users, notably those from XP have had no issues.

For those with legacy apps there is one thing which I consider pretty handy and that's the Virtual PC wotsit that runs my old XP application extremely well without having to fire up a whole VM. Just click the app icon and it fires up sweet as a nut (transparent to the user).

Oh, right. I thought you meant it was radically different.

Its actually not from a GUI point of view for the user, its a more robust looking version of Vista TBH - I never had any huge problems with Vista but a lot of others did.

[jamieboy]

Mojooo said:

Its actually not from a GUI point of view for the user, its a more robust looking version of Vista TBH - I never had any huge problems with Vista but a lot of others did.

The last version of Windows that I had much enterprise-level experience of was XP. Like many, I've had no real issues with Vista, and neither have my clients (albeit much smaller scale clients now). I've not had many problems with 7 on my own boxes either, so I was interested to hear about the "radical differences", especially since 7 internally is 6.1 to Vista's 6.0.

My own experience, backed up by what little I've read, is that 7 isn't much more than a refined Vista - and that's likely no bad thing.

[Silverbullet767]

Im on XP at home, is there any reason to upgrade?

I'm happy enough with XP as it is, I've never touched Vista.

All I use that PC for is a server for my media, iTunes, and a little web browsing, I have a macbook pro for everything else.

Would it make that much difference to a Core 2 Duo 1.88, 2GB Ram machine?