Windows 7 beta on friday

[ad_hominem]

I booted up and tried launching solitaire... It crashed... Oh and btw it's just a vista reskin. Windows just wanted to drop the word “Vista” since it has been trashed.

That's clearly not true. Everyone else has been reporting increased boot times and general speed - something Vista had a little trouble with to say the least.

Anyway, I've been using it for a couple of days (including solitare and the other standard apps) and have yet to come across something that caused a crash. Still impressed.

[Armageddon]

It is a edit of vista. all they did was fix a few things.

[MrTwoVideoCards]

It is a edit of vista. all they did was fix a few things.

Pfft.

[Armageddon]

lol

[MELVIn]

I haven't found a single error or bug so far. Everything works like a charm and it's way faster. I've moved on to some heavy duty work (as in everyday stuff in Vista) and it's faster and has not failed me yet. I even compiled an insanely badly made map (bad on purpose of course *cough*) and it didn't go "FUCK YOU" once.

Vista always does that... hatemachine.

[Jasard]

I've got it as my main OS at the moment to give it a proper test, its runs far better with just about any application than Vista. I love that no matter what game I put in to window mode, it runs perfectly on full graphics when it wasn't even close to doing that in Vista. Dual monitors ftw.

[ScarT]

It is a edit of vista. all they did was fix a few things.

[MrTwoVideoCards]

It is a edit of vista. all they did was fix a few things.

That's what I thought amirite.

[ScarT]

This is weird. Suddenly most applications crash for me. Windows Live Messenger, Windows Installer etc.

I tried disabling UAC completely, but didn't do nothing. So I'm back in Vista, and I hate it (compared to Windows 7)

[Jasard]

Thats odd, try posting on the Beta forum:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/For ... y/w7itpro/

Just log in with your Live account.

[ScarT]

Ah, thanks! It seems others are having the same problem, which I guess is somewhat positive

[coder0xff]

It's definitely not a reskin, but I'm sure it's not a new code base either. It's likely that it's mostly the same kernel and user mode code as Vista with significant shit fixed/improved (that's what's usually done), whatever. That's not important. What's important, is whether or not it works better. And based on popular opinion, it seems that it is - or at lease will.

[Joseph T]

So I'm giving serious thought to installing Windows 7, but how does the SDK, Steam, and the games work? Any problems at all for anyone?

[Psy]

None at all! I'm going to be installing the 64-bit version on my desktop so I'm quite excited to see how it runs.

[Jasard]

I'm still running it as my main OS, and still no issues. Good stuff. (running 64bit)