Windows 7

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Is anyone really interested in the new windows OS due to release late 2009? I can imagine everyone will slate it off saying it will take years to perfect, wont be better than XP etc.

I can get my hands on a copy of it now, and im quite tempted to install it on my laptop to see how it works

Anyone heard anything else about this OS?

BBC NEWS | Technology | Windows 7 put to the test

 

[Raven]

I for one am looking forward to it. It is essentially Vista with a lot of the crap removed and a few bits of fluff added.

 

[aika]

inb4 vista lite

 

[Amanita]

A few things that I heard at work today made me rather look foreward to it.

 

[Belgerath]

Got it on Virtual Machine in work.

Have to say so far im impressed

 

[soze]

I really like it so far (early rc so hard to tell) and hope the netbook version is good i like the sound of office running resource lite in a webbrowser. I think creating a low resource version for netbooks is a smart move.

 

[Lamp]

Looking forward to the day when someone comes up with a revolutionary OS that blows Windows completely out of the water.

 

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Looking forward to the day when someone comes up with a revolutionary OS that blows Windows completely out of the water.

most industry systems don't use windows. Its just the social population that use and are familiar with it. Doubt anyone can make the average aunty joe install another OS now.

 

[soze]

For the second time in three months, Windows has boosted its market share, an Internet measuring company reported Monday. The increase by the Microsoft operating system was the largest in over a year, said Net Applications Inc. During October, 90.46% of users who connected to the Web sites that Net Applications monitors did so from systems powered by Windows. The share was up 0.17 percentage points from September, and was the biggest gain since June 2007, when Windows climbed by 0.4 points.Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X, meanwhile, failed to grow its share for just the fourth time this year.

Not sure how accurate but 90% Market Share Windows has won even free linux has not taken 10% that cant just all be familiarity

 

[Dahakon]

I'm just about to fully migrate to linux (just got one desktop left to go, all otther comps run it now) and a simple rehashing of vista isn't going to intice me back.

 

[Lamp]

This release is the software equivalent of Bill Gates farting, and 800 million people rushing to grab the fart in a jam jar and paying $70 for it.

If you buy this you are a mug

 

[Laddey]

Windows XP all the way!



<but yeah, i cant wait to test it >

 

[crispy]

Not sure how accurate but 90% Market Share Windows has won even free linux has not taken 10% that cant just all be familiarity

No a fair bit of proprietary standards and windows-only apps have helped a bit too

 

[Golena]

The simple fact is that windows is still by far the best operating system out there.

Yes Linux is free and cool, but not even remotely close.

Sorry, I use Linux every single day at work, as a software developer and yet I still normally can't work out how to fix simple problems without either finding an expert or resorting to hours trawling google forums.
The horrendous problem with open source is that nothing works the same as anything else, and for your average computer numpty that's a huge and unworkable problem. All but your linux geeks don't want to spend 5 hours working out how to add the correct lines to some random config file to simply run a program, and windows is really the only os that at least attempts to take care of it without user knowledge.

 

[Dahakon]

you guys might find this interesting, it's about someone running tests on the pre-beta realise of Windows 7.

 

[collegien]

This made me chuckle old stuff tho

"32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition" Still stands strong. Now with a 64-bit patch on top.