Thread: Windows7 a Con? Well it comes from Micro$oft

Originally Posted by harlie

I have an MSDN tech subscription, gives me 10 keys, installed 7 about 5 weeks ago now, much better than Vista, faster, more stable.

How do you go about getting a MSDN tech subscription? Did you use keys you purchased to activate downloaded Win7 ? I thought Win7 was yet to be released?
Thanks..B

Originally Posted by OrangeZXr10R

I bought a TechNet subscription for A$384, which gives me 10 CD Keys for "ANY" of the MS OS"s. Mind you, it's the first legit version of an OS that i have paid for since DOS 5.0 !!!

I tested Vista and it sucked, Windows 7 RTM runs a lot better than Pista ever did. I'm quite happy with it. The driver issues are solved by loading either XP or Vista drivers.

If you don't like Micro$oft then you can always go Apple's OS's.

You can get the same "10 CD keys for almost any MS product deal for $199" ish US dollars on ebay. With the exchange rate the way it is at the moment it's dirt cheap. Just search for MSDN.

I bought it mainly for the office and installed then ditched Windows 7 and went back to Ubuntu. 7 is miles better than Vista but not as good as Ubuntu Linux in my humble opinion.

Regards


Martin

Originally Posted by George130

I'm just waiting to see what they meant by the free upgrade from vista to 7. I bought right at the time this was announced. Was also thinking about64 bit over 32.

I ran the 64 bit version and apart from taking 6 hours to install (no BS) on two brand new multi core PC's and numerous crashes during installation it ran ok eventually. The machines both hung after (pick any number) 24%, 37%, 68% and once even 88%.

It sits there for half an hour not even moving 1%, I honestly thought it wasn't installing. It's painful to install. I suspect most people will encounter it on a new PC. Anyway the main issue I found was that the 64 bit version wasn't noticeably quicker and there isn't an awful lot of software to run on 64 bit available yet. Got the 64 bit version of IE and Mozilla but for example flash wasn't available so couldn't play video on news websites. :-(

I installed 64 bit Ubuntu in less than an hour, first time from 1 CD (not DVD) and that included Open Office.

Originally Posted by martinozcmax

... there isn't an awful lot of software to run on 64 bit available yet. ...

Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro are 64bit (add heaps of memory - Adobe recommend 16GB ).

Just two examples ...

I'm running Windows 7 32 bit on my Laptop, runs fine, installed fine, I don't even think its crashed yet. I don't know how people have so much trouble with Vista, I've used it for a few years now without any problems, (once the stupid safety warnings were disabled). Windows 7 probably uses 25% less RAM to run than Vista from what I can tell on the Lappy, about the same as XP.

I do agree that M$ software is overpriced, especially M$ Office, that's just crazy $$$! Even Windows 7 Starter Edition is too expensive in my opinion, however if you want a fast, cut down OS it's pretty good. One day I'll expand my horizons and try the Apple OS, but for now I'm happy to be part of the flock and continue using M$ Windows.

Tim

Don't want to sound like any sort of smarta$$, but really if you use a Mac all of the stuff that is losing you sleep or whatever else with this issue is a non-event. MS should issue medals for persistence.

Flame away.

cheers, DL

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Don't want to sound like any sort of smarta$$, but really if you use a Mac all of the stuff that is losing you sleep or whatever else with this issue is a non-event. MS should issue medals for persistence.

Flame away.

cheers, DL

I totally agree. Unfortunately the majority of the expensive applications that I run will not under Mac OS.
I know that there are emulators that will run these apps under Mac OS but not as well as natively. With the new Macs that run Intel CPUs, you have the choice to either run Mac OS or Windows, so I guess that this will possibly be my next purchase.

Cheers..B

I can't believe how PC users put up with all this nonsense, unless they're closet masochists. The Aulro AVG thread is another classic.

BTW everything in MS Office for Mac runs just fine on my Macbook.

cheers, DL