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Windows Media Center and Visual Studio Express run smoothly.....
Right now, i'm starting to fill my windows 7 with all my 'Heavy Weight' software and games. So far so good, NICE...... i'm so excited and eager to upgrade my Ram to 16Gb, just to fill my curiosity.. haha
spec:
- Core 2 Quad 6600
- Ram 8 Gb
- Vga GeForce 9600GT 512
I have my fingers crossed. www.pcqik.com
Anyone who follows the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market knows that every major SaaS player, starting with Salesforce.com (CRM), uses the success of consumer-oriented, on-line services as the model for its business-to-business solutions.
SaaS vendors, executives and ?experts? (myself included) point to the way these web-based services created an enjoyable, effective and economical user experience as the centerpiece of their success.
The most prominent example of this approach has been Apple iTunes.
Ironically, Apple (AAPL) has never taken advantage of its prominence and positioned itself as a SaaS or cloud-computing player. It appears that this may be changing. At this past week?s MacWorld, Apple unveiled a new, web-based version of its iWork productivity suite. Just as Microsoft?s (MSFT) Software-Plus-Services strategy is an acknowledgement of the growing interest and adoption of web-based apps, so is Apple?s move down the same path.
Apple is also moving in this direction to build on the momentum it has gained penetrating the corporate environment. At the desktop and laptop levels, Apple capitalized on customer discontentment with Microsoft?s move to Vista to win a greater share of the corporate PC market. The iPhone has also been a big hit among corporate customers.
So, Apple is in a far better position to succeed in its SaaS/cloud-computing initiative than Microsoft. Apple has the online procurement and delivery mechanisms to facilitate the new service, as well as the end-user devices (desktops, MacBooks and iPhones). It is known for its innovations, and will immediately attract a broad base of curious and committed fans to test the beta version of the new on-demand service.
Apple can also exploit the growing ?consumerism? within the corporate IT environment, which has seen end-users bring their personal systems and services into the workplace to get their jobs done. Apple can also leverage a vast assortment of developers, channel partners and strategic relationships to distribute and enhance its SaaS solutions. So, the ?poster child? for the SaaS movement appears to be making its move to claim a share of the rapidly growing SaaS/cloud-computing market.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/114203-is-apple-getting-saasy
Windows 7 runs much faster than the beta of Vista I had on the machine a couple of years ago (I had to get rid of it because it was interminably slow). And, the OS installed with very few hitches. It could identify my Netgear Ethernet card, but since I had a wireless dongle, I was able to use that to access the web.
Otherwise, it has been genuinely impressive. From first impressions, it actually looks like MS got it right for a change. Unlike some other posters, I actually like the new taskbar better than Vista's. I'm used to KDE, and it seems as though they're trying to emulate that Linux model.
I think you mean they made a compiled version available. If MS actually released the source code for any version of windows I would eat my own... well I wont say what exactly I would eat because it go's against the terms of service.
Ping me when Microsoft has something revolutionary.
Thank You.
The install process was painless, IE8 is a step up from IE7, the interface is quite beautiful.
However, I don't think that it is not revolutionary.
In my opinion, it should simply have been Vista SP2.
I meant to write that I don't think that it is revolutionary in the third line
But there will be some people who will.
I'm waiting to hear all the complaining, moaning, groaning, ********, cussing, "I told you so's" , and I hate Microsoft, I love XP, etc., on the discussion page. It should make for some hilarious reading and Schadenfreude.
Thank You.
wish us luck
- by chatins January 11, 2009 6:30 PM PST
- I've jumped through this hoop with slightly more ease than I expected. Seven installed cleaner and smarter than Vista.
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Showing 3 of 6 pages (156 Comments)The taskbar works more like the dock in OSX. I was having fun with this - until I moved it (the task-dock) to the right side of the screen. When I clicked on games menu the system shuddered to a halt.
But in a flash, the system recovered itself without disrupting a driver download I was shoehorning. 7 didn't get my sound driver, a Realtek AC97.
Microsoft has greatly improved the kernel optimization for older machines. Keeping track of things is downright Net-centric.
I'm happy the "widgets bar" is gone on the right side, but this baby still needs more spit and shine to even touch OSX or Ubuntu Linux.