Full disclosure: I have not tried it. One of the support guys here is a techy-type and has installed each Win7 beta using vmware or something like that. He tries every version of our software on Win2000 - > win 7 and lets the programmers (like me) know when there is a problem. All our 'windows compiled' software is now in vfp9 sp2. To date, not even one problem has been reported with Win7.
I (this is my personal opinion) refuse to use Vista (nickname crap/Win ME). Unfortunately we have many clients that got it on new hardware so we are FORCED to support that crap. We are looking forward to Win7 because it seems that it will have some parts that work, unlike Vista and ME. I still work on Win2000 which I still insist is the last good operating system that M$ made. For me, the test is simple. Right-click on 'my computer'. Share the C: drive. If it is really shared, you have an operating system that is worth a sh.t. If it is not shared, then you have crap. Now, if M$ would have some kind of dialog that would walk you through the sharing, then I would be convinced. To date, sharing XP, 2003, Vista is hit or miss. When you 'share' the drive, you have done nothing. The drive is not shared. Not even close. Instead of doing the work I should be doing, I am fishing around on local policy, services, and other obscure menus and stupidily worded selections that change with every version. There is nothing consistent. Nothing is ever fixed. Things are just moved around and renamed to make you think that there is some kind of development going on at M$. Right now, my development network has 2 Win2000, 2 XP and 1 Win2003 and a Crapsta laptop that is turned off. All computers can freely share all files This is required for development of software - except one of the XP computers cannot access the 2003 server and the 2003 server cannot access that XP. Both can 'see' each other in the network display. Neither can ping the other. When you click on the computer name, it says you don't have permission. All computers are logged in with the Administrator user so that is stupid and not true. There is no domain. Only an idiot would design an operating system like this. It is obvious that there is no quality control. No one tested this crap. It is easy to copy files between those two computers when you are on any of the other computers so there is no question about all computers being connected correctly. Microsoft designs are garbage. There is no quality. No thinking. There is no one in charge. The company is obviously run by lawyers a nd sales people. The company is obviously a monopoly and we will all be stuck with this crap for a long time. The latest stock market reports have a hint of the future. For the first time M$ operating system sales are down. Is anyone listening at M$? Has anyone bothered to read any of the blogs? Does anyone know that there might be a problem? No. they are all millionares and think that anyone who can't use their crap is an idiot. They know there is no other place to go. I am sure they say screw the dumb asses who can't use this crap. ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Hart To: ProFox Email List Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 9:51 AM Subject: RE: [NF] Advice about going 64-bit Win 7 OS. Hi Matt Been running Windows 7 on 3 machines here for about 6 months. All are never switched off. I have had no trouble connecting any of the peripherals here. It just finds my Network Storage devices etc. I thought it would stutter on a Konica Minolta Colour laser we use here which is nearly 5 years old but they all just found it. My wife runs my accounting system (VFP 9 service pack 2) and doesn't see that much difference in the way it displays the text box's etc. All three are 64 bit and before that they all ran XP 64 bit. Just installed it on a spare drive for my Laptop and again it just installed and ran. A bit of a learning curve especially hard for someone my age but we are getting there with the help of the Wiz Kids who work for me. I know that when I go back to "my" XP machine which I use for development I am getting increasingly frustrated because some of the productivity features are missing. As far as the install is concerned it just gets on with it and installs with a minimum of fuss and quickly. Then the windows 7 machines are running faster with less Memory and slower Processes that my machine which has everything going. Done a small amount of VFP development on one of them and I have had no problems with that. Haven't had time to check with the noted Vista bugs to see if they are still there. I have run the Beta and now the trial versions. Expect to receive my RTM versions sometime in August. When I installed my Wife's I decided to install it on a new hard drive just in case she didn't like it. Then use a Program transfer program supplied by LapLink to move the working programs across after first uninstalling Office 2007 and others for which I had the installation disks. Had a problem with a few really old applications which she very rarely uses and wont miss but otherwise no problems. She was back using the computer after 2 hours. And most of that was the Office 2007 etc. Installations. The only problem she has is that her Russian Keyboard layout won't work. Changing so She could type Russian and French was easy but we had found someone who had created a keyboard layout that matches the equivalent Russian letters to the English letters. A quick email was answered to say that he was working on it so we will keep our fingers crossed. I told her "It's not my fault if Russians want use different letters with more letters in the alphabet." Cheers Peter Peter Hart Computers. P.S. I have also got a few machines running at some of my big Clients for testing purposes and to see how they get on with it. No problems so far and much enthusiasm with the Employees. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Slay Subject: [NF] Advice about going 64-bit Win 7 OS. I am interested to hear opinions about going with 64 bit Win 7 OS in general. Not just as it relates to VFP, but as an overall workstation. I'm sure we all use lots of software on our machines these days besides just VFP, so I want to look beyond just that detail. I am attracted to a 64 bit OS (I guess I am. Shouldn't it be better? It sure sounds cool, but I have no clue). 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