Anyone here tried out the leaked Windows 7 Beta Build 7000?

[tlccomp]

This is what I do for my customers

[D.8080]

Well, I have mixed thoughts on Vista, like "too early out" etc.

Reading, at the beginning, tons of forums on video card drivers issues, many users complained on something that was solved with better drivers by respective producers of hardware (Nvidia first in line).



I don't really know how much code is bugged in Vista, or if the approach to some problems has been solved by rewriting protions in W7...

SP2, in my opinion, isn't going to have many code substitutions, I don't even know if you can do that so freely (if we talk in depth changes).
As for different patches, workarounds and similar, they'll treasure what they found with W7.

Certainly Vista has some features that make using it less difficult, but I'm using XP and 2K, I'm not dying to have Vista at all.

I'm working on Linux instead, as it's more widespread than before, and needs some attention too. Being Lx more "community" style, maybe MS should be aware of the needs of users. And start to educate the user (as Linux requires some work to use it) that he can't have an all-in-one package that does everything for you for cheap... They sell a product, they don't do OSs to have something fun to talk over dinner.

If you pay, on the other hand, you want it to work, and have issues solved quick... For me MS should really start to make people understand how you have to use your machine. The problem is that many persons don't know how to make maintenance to their pc.

If we have a virus, here, we'd just stuff a live cd of some other OS, save stuff, format and voilà.

Others are just driving a car, accelerating until it goes...


My final thought is that Vista was just an old concept of OS, developed with all the latest technologies.

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Ok, I was a little off subject...

[andamus]

On my laptop Vista was erased before the first run now it's running Mandriva 2099.0 (and before the 2008.1) 64 bit and all works really well ....

[smithy]

I particularly like how Vista says "searching for a solution to your problem" and.....it never finds anything!