And now I'm posting this from the 6.1.7000 build that's doing the rounds, which is probably the proper beta. Initially installed as an upgrade over Vista, which didn't go so well: the performance was appalling and Outlook wouldn't connect to the remote Exchange server. Format and fresh install and it's all looking a lot better.
The new taskbar is ace, big improvement over the Windows 95 one. Performance seems good but obviously it's a clean install so that's an ongoing thing. Other than that there's a lot of tweaks and refinements to the Vista UX, which are very welcome.
Office 2007 and Visual Studio Team System 2008 both seem to work fine.
It's installed on my work laptop (I also have a desktop which is still on XP SP3 for legacy support reasons) so I'm using it for real unless something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Woo.
Read a few bits where it is actually faster than XP and Vista in supposed "Real World" tasks which is nice to know.
I'm very tempted to give it a go. I've always gone straight into using Beta versions of Windows full time. Probably quite a stupid thing to do but ah well!
Could do with a fresh install in this laptop anyway.
I have just installed that on Sun xVM virtualbox to test the new direct
3D function but alas it did not work as Windows 7 still see's the GC as a stanarad VGA card. Still it was the fasted installed of a new OS that I have ever seen. Fully installed in around 12 minutes which is pretty good. I gave it 1.5Gb of ram and it runs a rather well. I have not installed any applications yet but thats the next test.
Yeah, it's absolutely fine. It got driver updates from Windows Update and everything.
There seems to be a slight blip with anti-virus, but it links you to preview releases from Kaspersky or AVG. I got the Kaspersky and it works fine.
Oh, and UAC has got much better; there are "don't ask again for this application" checkboxes and suchlike.
Good good. Once I've tidied up my laptop I'll give it a go.
(This usually entails dumping my desktop in a folder on my server that will never be looked at again and screenshotting my Programs list, printing it and highlighting the stuff I want to install again)
I might just replace XP with 7 when it's matured a bit. That's all contingent on whether I have a new PC or not.
2.4 ghz Intel
Intel mobo
Nvidia 7600 GS agp
1 gig RAM tbh
36/m/Scotland
