Windows 7 Beta 1 (build 7000) screenshots

MouseMat2004 · 2 Jan 2009 at 20:18

Open up OSX to thousands and thousands of different hardware combination and you may not find it as stable and quick so much of a sudden

I think Apple would make great software sales if they did but naturally would lose hardware sales, which I guess they make a packet on due to a lot of those types that sit in coffee shops with tweed jackets on, surfing on their £1500 Mac Book, while listening to their iPod Touch and talking on their iPhone feeling all smug about themselves

arigold · 2 Jan 2009 at 20:26

visualy whats actually different apart from the taskbar?

rkhroma · 2 Jan 2009 at 21:08

Tried to install in virtualbox to no avail

I just dont know how to use Vbox - tried to install ubuntu also get similar error. Sux

typk · 2 Jan 2009 at 21:43

Windows 7 seems so snappy... compared to vista that is.
Even seems stable as something kept crashing vista.

Looking good, shaping up to be a nice OS.

nightmare99 · 3 Jan 2009 at 09:05

Tried to install in virtualbox to no avail

Worked ok for me, running VB v2.1 x64 W7 installed no problems.

Macro · 3 Jan 2009 at 09:07

Concorde Rules said:
Because unlike windows, OS X does actually work perfectly all the time.

Absolute twaddle..... :rolleyes:

Mr Jones · 3 Jan 2009 at 09:12

Okay... so I put Windows 7 on my USB stick, installed into my Acer Aspire One (1.6GHz Atom, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD) and to my surprise... everything (apart from the flakey wireless) worked 100%.

Just as snappy as it is on my main system.
The explorer layout is rather intuitive too, really like the whole icon based taskbar now.

I am looking very much forward to the final release now

FreeStream · 3 Jan 2009 at 09:58

Athanor said:
Absolute twaddle.....

Does for me.

And has done for ooh, the last 7 years of me using OS X.

OS X: 2002 PowerMac G4 --> 2007 Macbook Pro --> (2009 Mac Pro)
Windows XP: Pentium 4 Northy --> AMD64 --> Intel C2D

mr.sly · 3 Jan 2009 at 15:19

Concorde Rules said:
Does for me.

And has done for ooh, the last 7 years of me using OS X.

OS X: 2002 PowerMac G4 --> 2007 Macbook Pro --> (2009 Mac Pro)
Windows XP: Pentium 4 Northy --> AMD64 --> Intel C2D

I think his point was that no software or hardware is ever perfect and without fault. And if you truly believe OS X never has any problems just had a simple Google search and open your eyes.

Plus there's people on this very forum using Windows with 8GB of RAM.

Mobius 1 · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:28

is there anywhere i can aquire this legally? i wanna try it out

Shadows1990 · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:47

-Tauren- said:
is there anywhere i can aquire this legally? i wanna try it out

It should be given out as a public beta by Microsoft on the 5th January (Monday), so keep your eyes on the MSDN then

Mobius 1 · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:51

Shadows1990 said:
It should be given out as a public beta by Microsoft on the 5th January (Monday), so keep your eyes on the MSDN then

do i have to have a paid for subscription with MSDN ? if so im out of luck

wiiija · 3 Jan 2009 at 17:56

You can activate it now, not that its overly important now as the public beta will prolly be along soon enough.

FreeStream · 3 Jan 2009 at 19:15

mr.sly said:
I think his point was that no software or hardware is ever perfect and without fault. And if you truly believe OS X never has any problems just had a simple Google search and open your eyes.

Plus there's people on this very forum using Windows with 8GB of RAM.

Quite true, I know they have problems. I do not with OSX, unfortunately, I do with Windows.

Im not stupid with money, I firmly research every purchase pretty much. But the confidence I put into OS X over Windows means im about to spend about as twice as much money on a Mac Pro over a self built PC.

I've been using them side by side since I was 5, 14 years ago. So this "fan boy" status I might be gathering isn't with a limited experience

I think the experience of using them both in a day to day basis in pretty much every environment apart from corporate/servers gives me the right to a rather comprehensive opinion.

gazzamcg · 3 Jan 2009 at 19:17

Will the 64-bit version be available to the public ?

MouseMat2004 · 3 Jan 2009 at 20:48

Actually the more I use Win7 the more I like it. Just installed it on my main PC (Specs below) rather than the Atom 1.6Ghz and it flies along, installed all the programs I would normally use and all the hardware I could and everything was perfect even the stuff that you think may cause a problem (stuff that messes with networking settings/drivers etc and cheap nasty hardware that uses shoddy drivers)

I think I'll wait to see if a 64bit version is released and then I will try my best to resist temptation to run it full time instead of Vista. It honestly feels good enough.

X2 6400+, 2GB ram, ATI X1950, AMD Chipset mobo. Windows automatically installed all the correct drivers, then windows update found some updated drivers. I didnt try to install any Vista drivers since it all worked fine.

malef!c · 3 Jan 2009 at 20:57

Can't wait for it to hit MSDN on Monday then I can play as well as listening to all the gossip from you lot!!

wingnuttzz · 3 Jan 2009 at 21:09

currently running this through VMWare, and am very pleased to say the least.

Given that VMWare is only allocating 1gb of ram to it, its still brill to use. Like any new operating system, takes a day or 2 to get completly used to it, but i can see me dual booting it and using it as a primary even in this early beta stage.

I was using vista as a primary operating system pretty much (XP on dual boot) since the first beta came out.

Spyhop · 3 Jan 2009 at 21:12

They appear to be changing the task bar for the sake having something new in your face. Now it conveys less information just so that it can look like the similarly dubious OS X dock.

rudeboymcc · 3 Jan 2009 at 23:53

how's the driver support for this? can it use vista drivers?