Windows 7 Release Candidate

[FatNakedGuy]

For you techies out there, Windows 7 RC operating system is available for download and expires on June 1, 2010

Windows 7 Release Candidate download

https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7...a-download.aspx

 

[dcarver]

got it! tx

 

[zip]

And what are your impressions of Win 7 so far? Will it expire if I install it on the home PC?

Thanks for the post!

 

[Bounce]

ALL of the beta releases are set to auto expire. DO NOT install them on your home or production systems unless you are willing to deal with trouble shooting and the need to do a complete wipe-and-install when the beta expires. There won't be an "upgrade" option.

 

[Aasland]

What does Win 7 have that makes it worth the time and headaches of performing free testing for MS ?

 

[cardingtr]

What does Win 7 have that makes it worth the time and headaches of performing free testing for MS ?

If you install Windows 7 RC, it will start reminding you to upgrade by 3/2010 by auto shutoff reminder on you taskbar.

 

[dcarver]

Some of us love the Bleeding Edge of Technology.

..and some of us have to stay abreast of new apps and OS's cause we're the supposed experts.. lol...

 

[Bogey907]

Some of us love the Bleeding Edge of Technology. ..and some of us have to stay abreast of new apps and OS's cause we're the supposed experts.. lol...

Then why aren't you using Linux?

https://www.ubuntu.com/

https://www.kubuntu.com/

 

[happyPuppy]

I don''t like Linux as a desktop OS, only as a backend server. Not enough key software I use. I run a Mac, and I virtualized Windows 7. It seems a hybrid of Vista and XP, which is good.I did extensive testing with Vista and it was not for me and stayed with XP on Windows on my Windows, way too many driver issues and software glitches. IMO and I think the market has spoken it is the biggest flop ever beats Win ME. Win 7 keeps most of the eye candy is faster and has a new base I/O level. They relly need to drop all 16 bit support and legacy support which has hampered them for years. Just run it as virtual machines with crosswire, or Virtual Box ( free) from Sun. So far thumbs up on Windows 7 . Even on my traveling netbook it runs as well as XP. IE 8 however still is weak and Firefox is much better. What killed Windows for many was the dropping of Visual basic and unmanaged code. Companies have written tons of apps and utilities in VB and to drop support and move to .NET ( really only created to fix flaws in Windows design and force you to join at the hip with another proprietary language) More lines of code are written in VB than Cobol and you kill it? That scared companies that use VBA as a macro language in Office, as VBA is at its' core VB. To avoid the cost of rewriting VB into .NET , testing and going to a new OS ( Vista) where I was at I just said no to Vista and we stayed with XP and they still are. It is really hard to cost justify it , and they ( MSFT) tried to force it by "end of support days" that is the sort of things that hurts and is impossible to justify. Walking into a meeting and asking for a lot of money to be made rewrite things that work fine to use a new OS that is a huge cost alone. Windows 7 has fixed a lot of the OS issues and the rewrite is in ANSi supported C, C++ and Java. All MSFT had to do was release VB as open source, they sort of forgot big companies have to talk well with mainframes and legacy systems ( Cobol and Fortran) from other vendors that do not support .NET and do work with Java. A pretty easy decision looking at dollar costs. Enough of the rant. Windows 7 is better ( I started testing at the betas) than Vista and XP right now and I would switch to windows 7 for home use If I had the drivers available. If you are unsure or want to learn it use the free Virtual Box by Sun and Oracle https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and run it as a virtual machine.

 

[TruWrecks]

I've been running it native on my MacBook. That's been the most solid platform combination I have found in years.

 

[topanga]

Anyone running it under VMWare (which I currently use) or Parallels on a Mac? I may need to use it for some testing before I have to buy a copy.

 

[johnny80s]

I ran the beta on vmware and had to stop using it. It kept crashing outlook 2003 on me.

I am going to try the release candidate now. I hope it works better.

I was not really impressed with it compared to the Mac but I support windows, linux and mac so I have to use it.

 

[happyPuppy]

Anyone running it under VMWare (which I currently use) or Parallels on a Mac? I may need to use it for some testing before I have to buy a copy.

Yes I tested it under Parallels 4.0 . They have it listed too as "experimental, works great. I dedicated 2 gig of memory

 

[topanga]

I think I'll wait for now.

 

[Bustanut joker]

Some of us love the Bleeding Edge of Technology. ..and some of us have to stay abreast of new apps and OS's cause we're the supposed experts.. lol...

And some of you are just "expert" Jackasses..



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