Having so many 'skus' has always bothered me. And some of them seem absolutely pointless (starter with 3 applications running only? Ok.). At least most of these won't be widely distributed. Also getting tired of paying more than $300 for a decent version of the OS. http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/...s-your-worst-nightmare-has-come-to/#continued At least, by all indications, 7 is looking like a good OS.
I'm running it on every machine in the house currently. My girlfriend is running it and she doesn't even notice. She asked me why her laptop seems a lot faster now and why her battery life is better too. I laughed.
Home users: Home premium Business: Professional, Enterprise home + business = ultimate right now with vista they got home basic, home premium, business and ultimate. this home basic crap has to go. price needs to be way lower. i mean why the heck do they think people are downloading it illegally? make it more affordable. it's over 200 just for the home premium.
So I guess everyone with any version of Vista can't get the equivalent of Windows 7 free of charge? Microsoft really screwed this one up. I can't believe this isn't even being mentioned. This was Microsoft's fault and yet the consumer will have to pay for it. Classic Microsoft.
that's right microsoft! only apple can do that. oh like lets release a phone in 2007 with no 3g..make people pay 600 for it...then a year later add 3g..and pretend like omg did you know you can put 3g in a phone!
I don't blame them because the consumer will play for it. At the end of the day, Microsoft is a business. I wouldn't be surprised if they released Vista, knowing it was going to fail and then released Windows 7 to cash in even more. Evil to everyone else, $$$ to Micro$oft.
I just installed Windows 7 recently, and it's really good. It's what Vista should've been from the start (literally, it's another iteration of Vista w/ rebranding) if it weren't rushed to market. The amount of versions is ridiculous though. They should've stuck to the Windows XP Home/Pro model. They are better served only exposing Home Premium and Professional on the shelves and the rest through hardware vendors, etc. I also think the growing pains of Vista makes 7's acceptance even easier: people have already gotten over the learning curve of jumping from XP to the next generation.
Yeah, definitely a lot of positives from the beta. I just hope they stay the hell away from that 'Starter Edition' as much as possible. Can you imagine the 'new pc' owner who would get that? All the crying about Vista all over again. Why the hell would you even bring up Apple or even a cell phone? smh
It's bussiness 101. Everybody does it. Look, I won't derail this thread by saying apple sucks, I ask you to do the same by not saying Microsoft sucks. With that said, the beta is very very nice. IE is buggy as hell, but that's to be expected. The thing I think is most critical about 7 is the memory management is amazing. From what they're saying, Windows 7 outperforms XP task for task when your core count reaches 16. Seeing as how the i7's are a an 8 core setup (4 cores with hyperthreads per core) it's only a matter of time until XP becomes a thing of the past. I have had 2 blue screens on 7, but to be fair I deserved them because I tried using a driver I wrote for one, and the other was the me installing Synaptics software for my laptop when it said it would not work on this OS. All in all, good OS.
Any IT person would disagree with you. I dare you to have set up a rendering farm and have to go on and remove components like Media Center, past the first 16 machines isn't fun. Now I do agree, 32/64 is rediculous. It's 64-bit or death by now. Realistically there should be four versions minimum: Home, Bussiness, Ultimate and Server. The other iterations make up the in-betweens. I think most of the people who hate the different versions really haven't messed with the differences. For my laptop, there's no reason to use Ultimate. For my desktop, Bussiness isn't enough. For my mom, home is perfect. The issue of the iterations is that people really don't use sales associates to buy PCs anymore, and 9/10 they buy the wrong machine. People buy on price, not what they need. The irony is, people never do that with TV's, I've always said this: People want to buy TV's, people only buy PC's when they have to.
As a tech, I WISH the people here could only user STARTER!! The less they have the less they can blow up!
I am in IT, and my point was to what the average consumer should see on the shelf - which I've already stated. ...not to mention you actually agree the amount of versions is too much.
From a couple other articles I read, Microsoft will market just Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional to consumers. So there will be distinct limited choices for buyers thank goodness. All the other versions are aimed at a specific demographic. So will there be any upgrade versions or are these both clean install & upgrade? I dont want to buy this crap at all. Why the heck should I buy something and say make what I buy obsolete and make me pay more. But I been reinstalling XP like mad on a couple comps, might as well put a better peformer on them if its available
