Windows 7: Already Here Microsoft's new OS made its debut today, but MCPmag.com readers have had it installed and tested. Here's what they think. • By • Microsoft launched Windows 7 today, amid fanfare at an event in New York ( by Jeffrey Schwartz, editor for Redmond Developer News and ADTmag.com). The launch came a bit earlier for the folks in the U. XP SP3 won't boot in normal mode. TimewARP 2600 Lite RTAS Total Commander (Remove or Repair). (iLokDrvr) Dongles (6/5/2008 5.8.3.3162) Windows Imaging Component Windows Live OneCare safety. K., apparently pushed up by a postal strike. But it's already been in the hands of millions of testers, some who've already moved up to the new OS. MCPmag.com solicited newsletter subscribers for thoughts on the new OS and in a tribute to Windows 7, here's what readers told us, good (mostly) and bad (bolding and red font is my emphasis, not the submitters): I have been using Windows 7 since the beta and using the RTM since August 7th, and I think it’s great. The company I work for, with offices in 9 countries will start testing Professional on 10/16. We have quite a few in-house apps that we will need to test as we did with Vista. We are using Vista now so my pretest thoughts are that Windows 7 will also work. But only testing will tell. We will be upgrading from Vista Business and the reason is more for the features that link with Server 2008 R2, such as DirectAccess. I am also using Office 2010 Technical Preview. Though it’s not much different than Office 2007, which I like, its minor changes are still nice enough for me to upgrade when it’s released. Quicker response and better security handling is what would make the move for me. The outrageous cost to get it would be a detriment. Already upgraded from Windows XP SP3 with Signature Edition received from my House Party kit. Why am I upgrading? Better Processor Handling and system resource utilization. ![]() Faster boot times. Ease of use, and to keep up with the Jones's for my work (I'm an IT Pro, We've chosen to skip Vista and go straight to Win7). -- Michael S. Our reasons for upgrading are probably typical. Vista reminded me too much of Windows ME. The combination of UAC, driver issues, and the new look and feel was too much change too quickly for most of us. The reports of high memory usage, lower performance on current hardware (read 2 to 3 years old) and blue screens, scared us away. Over time, the proof was in the pudding, as not many people adopted Vista at a corporate level. Knowing that Microsoft realized they had a loser on their hands, we knew that Windows 7 would be everything people liked about Vista, with none of the bad stuff. All of the betas and RCs looked promising. We started testing it early, and have been very happy with the performance and features. It seems rock solid, the UAC is much better, and it’s fast and has enough wiz-bang look/feel stuff to attract us moth’s to the flame. Time will tell if we get burned, but right now I think we might have the modern version of XP on our hands. Code 300 32 sdr stock price. We are upgrading as a matter of fact since we have an EA agreement with Microsoft we have had Windows 7 Enterprise for about two months now and it has proved to be a better, faster and more stable product than Vista. We are upgrading from Windows XP. We have been doing fresh installs on new PCs and have been using the file and transfer wizard to bring the end users profiles over to Windows 7. So far it is working well. I have created a custom image (Windows 7 and apps) utilizing SCCM however it is unsupported until the release of SCCM SP2 not due until 90 days after WIndows 7 release. There have been a few challenges with it and still one item to work out in that process, the deployed OS requires to run the repair or boot from Winpe and run BCDedit as the Boot configuration ends up not knowing where to boot from. Simple fix to resolve but why it happens I'm not sure yet. Another feature we have found very useful and it has it's quirks too is the WinXP mode that enables us to use applications/programs that just won't run on Windows 7. The quirks are we have not found a way to automatically use this virtual machine for all users who log into the workstation. So for now it is only available to the primary user and if needed for additional user we manually configure it. It does lend itself for us to move forward.
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