First Experience With Windows 7

[Beam Me Up Scotty]

I helped my neighbor last night choose and purchase a Windows Accer. Nice box, 1TB hard drive, 8gb ram, dual core, the whole bit. Even came with a wireless card. All for a whopping $600 at Fry's.

Setup was a breeze, done in 10 minutes (not including downloading updates which took another 10 minutes), everything works well, not a lot of 60 day crapware, overall I'm impressed with Windows 7. I'm not giving up on my Mac of course but the folks over at MS did, IMHO, a nice job on this OS.

We'll see how long the honeymoon lasts of course and I'm not sure about networking but I'd say it's a vast improvement over both XP and Vista.

D & C

[Lee3]

They were supposed to get rid of the bloatware. Have to see if their security improves.

[Tofer]

My brother-in-law installed Windows 7 on his computer, and he says M$ ditched the calendar component (with reminders) from the mail program. In fact, he has to sign up for Windows Live to get reminders. He's kind of annoyed by it.

-Tofer

[D & C @ Work]

Forgot to mention it came with a 1gb video card. This sucker is fast...

D & C @ Work

[Doc]

Tofer wrote:
My brother-in-law installed Windows 7 on his computer, and he says M$ ditched the calendar component (with reminders) from the mail program. In fact, he has to sign up for Windows Live to get reminders. He's kind of annoyed by it.

Yeah. There's a lot of stuff like Outlook Express and Outlook reminders that one might expect support for out of the box that's not natively supported anymore in Win7. MS is pushing that old warmed over cr@p Hotmail with an ugly makeover "Live Mail" for individuals and small businesses.

It's kind of funny that MS is turning desktop email and calendaring into expensive pro-features while Apple is bringing Exchange support to the masses.

[St. Bernard]

Doc, I *think* the MS Live stuff is free, eh? Or are there additional services that they require payment for?

[Doc]

St. Bernard wrote:
Doc, I *think* the MS Live stuff is free, eh? Or are there additional services that they require payment for?

I wasn't referring to the Live service as expensive.

Outlook Express and old versions of Outlook won't work with Win7, forcing individuals to find other ways to access their email and corporations to pony up for expensive updates.

Also, the Home version lacks some of the networking and backup tools that Mac users -- and Vista users -- might take for granted. At retail, the privilege of being able to join a local Windows server domain and being able to make a backup with native tools costs about $80 bucks.

[jdc]

i have a feeling W7 will bring a lot of potential mac switchers back to the MS fold -- strictly on hardware pricing alone...

[AAA]

yep