Ok, so I'm basing my new system on Windows 7 - pray for me...

[TrailMyx]

Yes, it's amazing, but I'm taking a jump of faith....

[noonehome]

i heard they made windows 7 everything vista was supposed to be... glad to see they finally got something right... now if only they offer a free or inexpensive upgrade for us vista users

[Xclio]

I've been playing with the beta for the past couple of weeks and so far I like it.  I am running 64bit Ultimate Beta.

[Khameleon]

awesome, I downloaded the beta, but haven't installed it yet.. think I should? or wait for a release.

[Xclio]

The beta is worth messing with though I haven't jumped into using on my everyday computer simply because there is some driver bugginess still that is out there.  As for a release candidate many of the rumors flying around is we could see it as early as late spring.

[TrailMyx]

It's ok so far.  Part of my frustration with it is my ongoing issues with Vista itself.  However, the level of frustration is much less than when I was trying to use Vista.

[TrailMyx]

One strange thing in 7 and SUO is that if you maximize the window, the tabs view doesn't move.  It works OK in 2000, 2003 and XP.  heh.

[Xclio]

It also works fine in Vista as well so there must be something funky with the Beta that changed the way it is being handled.

[TrailMyx]

I will send in my 3rd bug report!

[TrailMyx]

I have to say that overall, I kinda like Win7.  The warning box spamming is much less than Vista.  Still getting used to where they've hidden basic functions, but overall it's OK.  I'm liking my F10 experience more and find myself spending more time in my Linux partition than I do in the Windows one.  But right now the Win7 is the only one that runs WoW smoothly.  I get crashes in Linux so far with my kernel/video driver/Wine combination.

[Khameleon]

nice.. good to hear that Microsoft is doing something somewhat right.
 

[TrailMyx]

Ya, they are taking their sweet time releasing it.  EA should take a page from this when it comes to UO.

Anyhow, Win7 isn't a huge leap from Vista technology-wise.  So it's a bit easier this time.  The WinXP->Vista jump was pretty radical.

[Khameleon]

I never even installed vista into my system.. I took one look at it, and said.. wow this is really gay looking. 

[xenoglyph]

just vlited/installed Windows 7 RTM x86 (Retail Ultimate), will be upgrading my Vista SP1 x64 soon.
I like it so far, but haven't used it too much.  I would stick with XP forever if I could, but on newer hardware it's time to move on.
I wonder if Windows 7 x64 will let you permanently disable driver signing, Vista doesn't.  Vista's super nazi kernel protection really bugs the hell outta me too.  It's like gun control, only the criminals gain access to the kernel while legitimate users are blocked.

[TrailMyx]

Ya, I remember the first time I spent 30 minutes in Vista, I realized I was grasping the laptop I had with thoughts of hurling it through a window.  (same feeling when I use the SA client.. lol.)

But I just love the fact that I can just plug things in and have them work.  I plug in my Creative Labs Zen music player or my Windows Mobile phone, and they are correctly identified and drivers are automatically loaded.  I can't get that to happen with XP or 2003.  Also the bootup time and shutdown time are pretty darn quick.  Faster than my Win2003 partition.  I still have to run UO in my 2003 partition since boat sailing causes UO to put up that swirling "O" and I loose connection.  Not sure whats up with that.