windows 7

[lazaroonie]

after a day and a half of using windows 7 I would like to give it my official seal of approval. it's the bollocks, I love it I do. if it was legal to marry an os it'd be the one I'd choose

i am quite liking snow leopard at the moment actually..

[gatso]

after a day and a half of using windows 7 I would like to give it my official seal of approval. it's the bollocks, I love it I do. if it was legal to marry an os it'd be the one I'd choose

Any idea if it networks properly?

it insta home networks itself without you having to do anything, quite impressive I thought as my lappy told me it was having a chat to my other lappy

2nd lappy was vista btw so no idea how it is with xp

[Ginger]

after a day and a half of using windows 7 I would like to give it my official seal of approval. it's the bollocks, I love it I do. if it was legal to marry an os it'd be the one I'd choose

Any idea if it networks properly?

it insta home networks itself without you having to do anything, quite impressive I thought as my lappy told me it was having a chat to my other lappy

Agree with this! I finally installed W7 today (academy (free) licence FTW  ) and so far I'm loving it, very slick, very easy to use and just all round lovelyness.

As for XP support - yes that will stop next year, and yes you should think about upgrading soon after that support ends.

As for techy people saying hang on to XP rather than upgrading... well I think it's time to upgrade the techy people you speak to!

[gatso]

after a day and a half of using windows 7 I would like to give it my official seal of approval. it's the bollocks, I love it I do. if it was legal to marry an os it'd be the one I'd choose

i am quite liking snow leopard at the moment actually..

that's going over to the darkside though laz

[StuartHopkin]

after a day and a half of using windows 7 I would like to give it my official seal of approval. it's the bollocks, I love it I do. if it was legal to marry an os it'd be the one I'd choose

Any idea if it networks properly?

it insta home networks itself without you having to do anything, quite impressive I thought as my lappy told me it was having a chat to my other lappy

Agree with this! I finally installed W7 today (academy (free) licence FTW  ) and so far I'm loving it, very slick, very easy to use and just all round lovelyness.

As for XP support - yes that will stop next year, and yes you should think about upgrading soon after that support ends.

As for techy people saying hang on to XP rather than upgrading... well I think it's time to upgrade the techy people you speak to!

Mmmm as said I havent spoken to them for a while! Hate using them when I can fix 99.9% of it myself.

Thanks for the prompting though, as if I havent got enough on i best get investigating this! 

[Ironside]

after a day and a half of using windows 7 I would like to give it my official seal of approval. it's the bollocks, I love it I do. if it was legal to marry an os it'd be the one I'd choose

Any idea if it networks properly?

it insta home networks itself without you having to do anything, quite impressive I thought as my lappy told me it was having a chat to my other lappy

Agree with this! I finally installed W7 today (academy (free) licence FTW  ) and so far I'm loving it, very slick, very easy to use and just all round lovelyness.

As for XP support - yes that will stop next year, and yes you should think about upgrading soon after that support ends.

As for techy people saying hang on to XP rather than upgrading... well I think it's time to upgrade the techy people you speak to!

phew thought i had imagined it

once mircosoft stops there support then other firms are going to aswell meaning it will be very vunerable to attack by hackers and virus writters

[gatso]

the only thing that was bugging me about 7 was the disappearance of the 'show desktop' button but I've just now found where it is so I'm all happy

[StuartHopkin]

after a day and a half of using windows 7 I would like to give it my official seal of approval. it's the bollocks, I love it I do. if it was legal to marry an os it'd be the one I'd choose

Any idea if it networks properly?

it insta home networks itself without you having to do anything, quite impressive I thought as my lappy told me it was having a chat to my other lappy

Agree with this! I finally installed W7 today (academy (free) licence FTW  ) and so far I'm loving it, very slick, very easy to use and just all round lovelyness.

As for XP support - yes that will stop next year, and yes you should think about upgrading soon after that support ends.

As for techy people saying hang on to XP rather than upgrading... well I think it's time to upgrade the techy people you speak to!

phew thought i had imagined it

once mircosoft stops there support then other firms are going to aswell meaning it will be very vunerable to attack by hackers and virus writters

Why am I working now?

Appears Windows 7 is the nuts, but will be able to downgrade to XP, but this is gonna have to be 64bit as Office will eventually be 64bit, but if you downgrade they wont support properly after April?

[Girgy85]

Just downloaded that Openoffice and its just what i need!

Cheers!

[Sack it off]

after a day and a half of using windows 7 I would like to give it my official seal of approval. it's the bollocks, I love it I do. if it was legal to marry an os it'd be the one I'd choose

i am quite liking snow leopard at the moment actually..

What's better about Snow Leopard?

I'm using just Leopard and I don't see how it could be improved

[Cf]

Just downloaded that Openoffice and its just what i need!

Cheers!

ugh, what a vile piece of software

[Tractor]

Ive got Vista Ultimate on a dell laptop just over a year old, how do you get the upgrade and what version do i need of Windows 7?

Cheers

[Ginger]

I'm no expert on W7 yet, but from what I understand the easiest way to do it is to upgrade to the same edition.

So for you it should be Vista ultimate = W7 ultimate. Of course that doesn't mean you can't use the professional edition for instance, but from what I gather you will have to the do a clean install (which is what I had to do).

As for where to get the upgrade, I'll let someone else answer the best place to obtain it, as I was lucky to get my copy via MSDN.

[Ironside]

as I was lucky to get my copy via MSDN.[/color]

mirco soft district nurse?

[rex008]

Developers Network. But close .

I downloaded it from MSDN a few weeks ago, and I have to say I think it's a triumph of marketing. There really isn't that much improvement over Vista (which I think is fine, generally, apart from the UAC crapness). The way W7 is now the best thing since sliced bread is impressive marketing, to say the least.