I hope Win7 is far better than Vista (would not take much), but there are concerns that I have. I read an article last night, which I should have linked into ProFox (I will see if I can find it again), that advises that Win7 with its "XP Mode" will not work with a lot of popular CPUs! At that, it is not available on all (anticipated) flavors of Win7. But, I am hopeful. Hey, if nothing else I could do with Win7 as I have with Vista - run it under Virtual PC, or VMWare if Virtual PC has too many restrictions.
Oh, here is the link re: XP Mode and CPUs that can't support it (yet?) - as well as a few other interesting links re: M$ dropping Vista like a hot potato (like it did with Win ME in favor of the far more stable, and still quite capable, Win2kPro/Server): http://www.betanews.com/article/Is-XP-Mode-in-Windows-7-something-youd-want- to-use/1241451260 http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/05/04/Microsoft-may-soon-drop-Vista/UP I-13261241442826/ http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-42286-140.html I wonder if M$ will offer credit toward an upgrade from Vista to Win7... I do hope Win7 proves to be a solid OS that behaves well with humans. You know, like 2000 or XP do/did. Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:profoxtech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Grigore Dolghin > Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 12:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NF] Windows 7 > > I've installed the RC last evening, in a VMWare virtual machine. The > laptop has vista ultimate and 4 gb RAM. I gave 2 GBs to windows 7 and > started the setup. Well.... it has finished in about 15 minutes. The > shutdown process takes just 10 seconds. Startup takes about 20 > seconds. It's blazingly fast (yeah, I know it sounds biased but what > the heck, in my oppinion Windows7 is the best windows so far). Can't > wait to have the RTM build and use it daily. It's way faster than > vista. > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
