10 busines days till windows 7. :)

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We will all die

What? Baba, Windows 7 was released today.


J.

Till my copy arrives.

Just saw an ad that implied there were a billion ideas in the thing.

Sounds like bloat to me.

Pffft. I've been running Win7 for weeks, now.

You realize it's been in free public beta for almost a year right? But good job with those skills.

Here's a question: If I upgrade to Win7 will I lose all my settings? I ask this because I've got an older PC with lots of passwords (in things like Firefox and Opera) saved and I can't for the life of me remember what they are. I know that the PC will be able to handle Win7, but there's not much point in my upgrading if I lose those passwords.

Are you running Vista or XP? XP requires a full install to upgrade to Win7, which would mean backing up all of your data, including your Firefox/Opera profiles, which should maintain your passwords (though, to be perfectly honest, that's an extremely risky way to handle password management - both FF and Opera have been known to corrupt profiles). It's probably the only thing about Win7 that I'm not wild about, but I understand it - MS has never made any real effort to support people leapfrogging like that. If I had to guess why, I'd assume it's because XP's been maintained for so long in very real use and is the only version of Windows to have major changes made in service packs, that they just couldn't upgrade and migrate the installation safely.

Of course, I've never liked 'upgrading' Windows, I'm much more of a flatten->reinstall sort of guy. It's like sliding between freshly washed sheets.

I'm running XP, my hardware wasn't good enough to run Vista. (Not dissing Vista on this point, mind you. I could have installed Vista, but it would have been extremely crippled by my hardware [mainly the lack of RAM].) Can you describe in small words what I'd need to do to switch to 7 and not lose my passwords?

Mine arrived yesterday, off to buy Snow Leopard this morning and then I get the fun of upgrading later.

I'm currently on XP, so a clean install is needed, hopefully it won't take more than 3 hours, as then I've got to reinstall office, SQL Server, Visual Studio... They take longer than the bloody OS!

Oh, and no aero for me. Well, not until I get my spanking new 27" iMac in the new year.

For the limited stuff I do at home, Vista's been fine for me. Somewhere down the line I'll get 7 but I'm not going to change just for the sake of saying I did.

Yeah, I ran the RC1 for awhile.

Says i can't run aero on my system, The 8600GT isn't good enough?

Get the same with my 2600 HD, even though it should be fine.

Probably to do with bootcamp drivers - Apple are updating them later in the year. Not that arsed about aero though at the moment.

I ran Windows 7 RC1 on a my 17" iMac without a hitch. It has to be something else.


J.

It is here.

How is it? Was it worth the wait?

Faster then vista.

Yeah, the upgrade advisor said aero was a no-no, yet it's working fine - and fast. Equally, if not faster than, XP did. My ratings are all 5.4, 'cept for 3d gaming, which I won't be doing anyway. Real proof of the pudding will be when I'm working with it.

Guess if M$ were going to fuck up on something, better it's the upgrade advisor

One annoying thing - I can't pin Eclipse. Not sure in that's a Win7 thing or an Eclipse thing though.

Decided to trial out Office 2007 too, although the pricing is frankly bizarre.

I only want Word, Excel and Access, now I can get the first 2 for under £56, Access is going to cost me a hell of lot more, which given few clients use it means I'll stick to my old XP version. It's a pity as the ribbon thing is actually quite good.

Ah well, OpenOffice for me and I'll download the Office 2007 viewers, and my clients can sodding well downgrade any Jet databases they send my way.

Scratch that, found this, kosher as I checked it out, and since I'm a student (part time, but still qualify!) I can get Office 2007 Enterprise for under £37.00.

Not supposed to use it for business needs, and 95% of the I time won't!

I have XP on my desktop and Vista on my laptop. I flat out hate Vista. My printer driver is incompatible with it.

My old laptop had XP. I could work on stuff on my laptop, then connect the printer to it and print.

Not anymore.

What kind of printer is it?

And for those of us who run grown-up OS's like debian linux, this is a non-event.

Tuckfan: I don't know about IE, but Firefox saves passwords if you let it. If you did, then there's a list under tools. Display the password list, take a screen shot, and save the jpg for when you transition to your next broken OS.

Wake me up when I can earn a fuckload of cash out of several thousand companies running debian linux in the UK, until then I'll stick to a windows/OSX mix.