the riff from the final countdown gets my vote. I wonder how much MS payed to use it.

A Microsoft ad that leaves you with a smile on your face. What's happening?!? The universe makes no sense!

>> ^dgandhi:
the riff from the final countdown gets my vote. I wonder how much MS payed to use it.


Agreed with on all points.

Microsoft Windows is a cute little asian american girl. Somehow that makes sense.

No thanks, I bailed on Windoze 9 years ago, and only boot into an XP virtual machine when forced to.

I'm really looking forward to Windows 7.

Wait wait wait... are you telling me this is not *parody?

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I've been running Windows 7 x64 in a virtualbox session for a week now.

First blue screen - I found it ran a bit slower when I allowed it access to all 8 CPU threads (i7 processor = 4 core + 4 HT) So I changed virtualbox settings to only give it 4 cores. Blue screen, unrepairable. Rebuild.

Second bluescreen was trying to find audio drivers for Intel motherboard (again through virtualbox). This I used windows restore point for and it did restore. Still no audio though.

I think these are both my fault, as its a bit unfair to fluidly adjust the number of CPU in your system and expect Windows to compensate. And, virtualbox audio drivers are a bit weird I guess so i cant fault it there. Still, a bit disheartening to see blue screens still, you would have thought they would have at least changed the color to get away from the stigma of it : )

On the plus side its very responsive even though running in a virt machine. I am able to play HD video for example. The core i7 cpu has VtX extensions which I suppose help a lot. I am not used to all the new interface quirks yet.

Last time I bought Windows(95) it came on 15 floppies, I will actually buy 7 though, everything I've heard is positive.

^ deathcow: I've been running 7 RC as my work machine for the past 4 months and I'm running x64 at home now for a couple of weeks. I have yet to see a blue screen at all.

The issue could be that VirtualBox still isn't working 100% with 7 (I'm guessing you're running the machine as a Vista type), but I've had the RC on VBox before I decided to trample my XP work computer with it, and it worked fine for me.

As for the quirks, I suppose I'm used to them by now, which was the main reason I installed the RC to begin with - to get used to this new experience, though I work in IT support, so I need to know this system to be able to support it.

The official public release is in a month, and most hardware vendors will have official drivers out by then (Toshiba still have Beta-labeled drivers only, which makes my Toshiba-laptop crowd wary of upgrading), but I haven't had a driver problem with any of the older machines I have it running on by now, so at least on that category, it > Vista

Running Windows7 since the beta release

Now I have 4 computers at home running Windows7 RC, brilliant os, if only they would price it the way apple does.

>> ^blackjackshellac:
Microsoft Windows is a cute little asian american girl. Somehow that makes sense.

Let's see Windows is an Asian girl...

- Can barely move because of ritualistic binding. Check
- Many of them are sold. Check
- Many models are scrapped. Check
- Exists in an environment with harsh, rigid rules. Check
- Windows love you long time. Nope

Two system running Windows 7 RC, two issues, both sound related. I forget the first problem (it happened so long ago) and the second had to do with running COD4. COD4 either errors out or just (eventually) returns you to the desktop. After much web-searching I found a (surprising) solution: plug a mic into the mic port...imagine that. I think this has to do with the sound driver.

Otherwise, Windows 7 works pretty well and I have full confidence in going from XP to W7 (I skipped the Vista experience).

>> ^deathcow:
I've been running Windows 7 x64 in a virtualbox session for a week now.
First blue screen - I found it ran a bit slower when I allowed it access to all 8 CPU threads (i7 processor = 4 core + 4 HT) So I changed virtualbox settings to only give it 4 cores. Blue screen, unrepairable. Rebuild.
Second bluescreen was trying to find audio drivers for Intel motherboard (again through virtualbox). This I used windows restore point for and it did restore. Still no audio though.
I think these are both my fault, as its a bit unfair to fluidly adjust the number of CPU in your system and expect Windows to compensate. And, virtualbox audio drivers are a bit weird I guess so i cant fault it there. Still, a bit disheartening to see blue screens still, you would have thought they would have at least changed the color to get away from the stigma of it : )
On the plus side its very responsive even though running in a virt machine. I am able to play HD video for example. The core i7 cpu has VtX extensions which I suppose help a lot. I am not used to all the new interface quirks yet.

well, you are running thro virtualisation.

Apparently you can put it on shite little netbooks, that impresses me.

Right... I cant quite blame it for anything since I'm running it through virtualbox. But to see a blue screen you'd think Microsoft would have done anything to change the experience of the blue screen.

VirtualBox 3.06 came out today. I have been using 3.04 and it does directly identify as Windows 7 x64, not Vista x64.

Okay, the music was pretty damn funny.

deathcow: HD video, really? Impressed. I run XP in a Virtualbox on my Core 2 Duo linux machine, and it's pretty tough to play even simple games (I just use it to get at MS Office). Any experience running non-7 OSes, to know if this is because 7 plays that nicely with Vbox, or is it running-Windows-on-Windows, or what?

maybe its the vtx extensions in BIOS? maybe the guest additions? they put some video drivers in I think.

I've been using 7 RC for a month now and I have to say that this is the first time that I've ever actually wanted to pay Microsoft for their OS.

I have it running on a 4 year old machine with sub par hardware and 7 is honestly faster than XP on almost all fronts. I'm very surprised at how much I like the OS.

After "Arrested Development", "The Final Countdown" will always be funny to me.

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From the little I've played with it, it looks pretty solid- the UI looks like something that will date very quickly though, much the way XP's Fisher Price style pastel windowing has. ... And it's definitely no Snow Leopard.

I've been running Windows 7 as the sole operating system on my computer for approximately 7-8 months, and it's ran like a dream.

>> ^ponceleon:
Wait wait wait... are you telling me this is not parody?


Pretty much, yeah.

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who would have thought it only took 20+ years, billions of dollars, and a small Asian girl to make windows 7 look good!

Can the "Windows sucks" troll posts, this isn't that type of site.

>> ^Truckchase:
Can the "Windows sucks" troll posts, this isn't that type of site.


What?....

^ Coherency is not his strong suit.

>> ^moodonia:
Last time I bought Windows(95) it came on 15 floppies, I will actually buy 7 though, everything I've heard is positive.


Dude, you have been running windows 95 all this time? I'm surprised you can even visit this site with Netscape Navigator

>> ^Bananular:
^ Coherency is not his strong suit.


As in "can it". English much?

>> ^Bananular:
^ Coherency is not his strong suit.


You probably should avoid flaming on this site, especially when what he said made perfect sense.

Back on topic -- I've been running windows 7 for months now on about 6 different machines and I've yet to have a serious problem. It's extremely responsive and fast, all around great OS!

If this is so wonderful, it makes even less sense for them to have made Windows SHITsa.

Demon_ix,

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can somebody get the vikings rounded up here ,, commenter above needs a can for all that *spam