Living in Windows 7: Part 1
Monday, February 2, 2009 by Frogboy | Discussion: Personal Computing
I’m running the BETA of Windows 7 and it’s been running so well that I’ve decided to make it my quasi-production machine.
Windows 7 is a massive usability upgrade from any previous version of Windows. Much of the changes are just minor in terms of effort but just make the whole system feel a lot better designed.
For example, if I want look at my connected devices I see this:
Notice I don’t see a bunch of crap. I just see the stuff actually connected to the machine. It’s a very nice change from what has been in Windows before.
One of the purposes of this series of articles is to let you know what programs I have problems with, and which ones work right.
Over the coming weeks and months I’ll give you generalized reports on the progress of our software (Stardock’s) running on Windows 7 as well as highlighting cool little touches in Windows 7.
Now, for the purposes of making life hard on Stardock, I’m not just running a beta of Windows 7, I’m running a beta of Windows 7 64-bit. By the time Windows 7 is released, all applicable Stardock software must run on this machine. 
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Reply #2 Monday, February 2, 2009 1:06 PM
From everything I've read and heard, I'll probably be upgrading. I wonder if going from Vista to W7 will be as problematic as going from XP to Vista. Judging from appearances, probably not, but I'm wary of anything that's not a "Clean" install.
Thanks for starting this series, Frogboy. WC is definitely looking up...DX, JJ's "From Zero to Theme" and The Photoshop posting show a definitely good and desirable direction.
Reply #5 Monday, February 2, 2009 1:38 PM
CharlesCS something tells me you should not hold your breath on that one. Just ask yourself have they done it after other versions of the OS that were flawed? Why only folks who chose to update to Vista? Seems the rest of us saw the 'hand writing on the wall' and stayed with what ever we were running. Sorry, just had to get that in.
Windows 7 needs to be priced so that it developes consurmer confidence back, not just in the product but the company also. I suppose we don't need to mention that it doesn't need 4 to 6 different levels either.
With this go around of a new OS I just might change due to the fact that it's also time to upgrade the computer. Lets see in dog years my computer is.................oh never mind. 
Reply #6 Monday, February 2, 2009 1:59 PM
We really do don't we 
Nice article
Reply #7 Monday, February 2, 2009 2:33 PM
So If I want to try out the Beta...I should download the 64 bit Version...
Reply #8 Monday, February 2, 2009 3:09 PM
Hey, I thought the idea itself was insane. I don't know any company that gave anything away, at least not something like Windows 7. But the article seemed to have an interesting point. I was hoping to get a view based on the concept of why Microsoft should give it away as per the writer and not a view based on "yea right, you wish". I already had the "yea right, you wish" thought cross my mind. 
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Reply #11 Monday, February 2, 2009 7:01 PM
This is the OS that my folks have been waiting for since of the many cons of Vista. A year ago when my father heard about it he wasn't going to get Vista. So we are running Windows XP Media Center SP3. I can't wait to get W7.
Reply #12 Monday, February 2, 2009 7:08 PM
I want to have a very close eye to this thread...
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Reply #14 Monday, February 2, 2009 7:19 PM
Hmm, I haven't bothered with windows 7 even though most are quite positive bout it. Guess it's time to buckle down.
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Reply #19 Tuesday, February 3, 2009 12:33 AM
I'm dual booting XP and Windows 7 and I am finding W7 to be a great experience wherever I look. And that's on a three year old laptop with a pretty pathetic CPU (in todays terms) and a gig of ram. Microsoft are really going to win back the public with this new OS. I've got two freebie Vista Ultimate discs and they've been gathering dust after I installed them last year on my better rigs and they performed like a pig...........so went back to XP.........but now there is light at the end of the tunnel
Reply #20 Tuesday, February 3, 2009 3:11 AM
I'm dual booting XP and Win 7 x64 at the moment. I like Windows 7 a lot more than I do Vista (which I have to deal with on a regular basis at work and when playing IT support for my parents), but it's behaving very beta for me, with BSODs not being very uncommon; usually get 1 per day or so, sometimes more. But I did expect that when I installed the beta.
Win 7 is going to be my cue to go 64 bit, and get some more RAM on my game rig
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Reply #1 Monday, February 2, 2009 12:28 PM
Windows 7 looks definitively interesting
Wish i'll have the money when it'll be release and another desk though a 4th PC won't fit the one i've already