Comments on: Free Windows 7 won't last forever

Just a reminder that you only have until August 15 to download the free release candidate version. Also, life is going to start getting annoying for those still using the Windows 7 beta.

[hassan_bin_sober]

The whole world is still buying into the crap that computers are going to make your life easier!

...I'm waiting!

[Seaspray0]

Computers made it much easier to post your annoying contradiction.

[shycelticwitch]

And your comments are intelligent? Most everything you post here is simply FUD aimed at other FUD from other trolls. I just came from an Apple post and your hate-speech rantings are all over that one too. What IS IT with you people?

For the rest of you... I HAVE used Vista, AND W7 beta... I keep trying new things so I can offer REAL opinions, not fabricated ones when it comes to my Windows PC. When I find something that works, I stick with it. Up to this point, it HAS NOT been anything MS has to offer, other than the nice work they did with Office for Mac. I will keep XP on my PC as long as I still need to use it to open Publisher files and hold down papers on my desk.

@ Seaspray... how many Macs do you own?

[frankwick]

I have come to the conclusion that most Vista bashers have never really used or used it early in its launch. In all fairness to MS, Vista is now quite stable. It's VERY stable and performs well if you have adequate hardware with Vista drivers. I have a company laptop with Vista (typing on it now) and it never crashes. I mean NEVER. So these people who bash it really seem ignorant to me. If you're wondering, it's a cheap Dell Latitude D630 with 2.5 GB of RAM. I keep it updated and I am very pleased.

Now on to Win 7. Win 7 is no SP to Vista. There are MANY new features and differences. The one thing they did keep form Vista was the driver model. If you remember, when Vista was released the drivers from Nvidia, ATI, and numerous others were horrible and users paid the price. Thankfully, Win 7 adopters will not have to go through the same pain because the Vista drivers will work. We will see many XP, Vista, and some MAc people jumping onto the Win 7 bandwagon.

[The_happy_switcher]

I wouldn't use Windows even if it was free. Who needs the endless hassle of viruses, trojans, malware, keyloggers, endless patches, diminished performance from registry bloat, etc. etc.?

[rzpogi]

@ the happy switcher

You forgot that Mac and Linux are still suspectible to phishing and pharming.
You also forgot that Mac and Linux PATCH their software like what snow leopard is.
There is an increasing number of malware created for mac and linux. Macs and Linuxes will one day need antiviruses.

[Ilgaz]

I tested Windows 7 beta and while testing, one expects a easy way to report issues, send feedback, a public bug reporter like bugreport.apple.com and actually way to share your performance, system issues automatically with Microsoft.
That is why you beta test a commercial product, to make your (and others) life easier.
All I see was UI, classy themes (which I reverted to Classic) and actually Kaspersky guys which generously activates their Win 7 beta for 6 months got more feedback from me since it was easy.
Also, after months of usage, people will expect to easily upgrade their free beta to paid version which they paid for. Microsoft always offered OS to OS major version upgrades and I have no clue why they insist on not being easy to upgrade to real product from free one... It is not rocket science, even Apple does it with their really complex operating system which is mixture of very different layers.

[Invierno1894]

Right when I got a new laptop with vista, I didn't even give it a chance to boot install all the crap vista has to offer and everything. I threw windows 7 over vista. Windows 7 is INCREDIBLE. Think: The sexiness of vista, with the speed and performance of xp. =)

[fletchb]

Anyone have a direct link to the download? After I log in, it takes me to this page
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd361745.aspx?ITPID=carepgm and then gets stuck
in a endless loop . I sure hope the software works better than their download page :(

[fletchb]

Yep..leave it to MS to make even their download page buggy as hell. You have not changed one bit MS ..why was I foolish to think you you had.....

[IanX211]

I totally agree. leave it to MS to make their page buggy as hell.
All i did was type this, click that, sign in, copy product key, click the "Download Now" button, and was on my way to downloading an ISO that's about 2.5 GB.

Of course there's the other way.......

[Ilgaz]

Hope you use IE for that page as even Windows 7 forums are incompatible with anything else than IE.
Take that, people thinking MS is changing.

[fletchb]

Ilgaz is right. The page is rigged so you can't use Firefox to download win7. Not only do you have to use IE to download, you also have to install a download manager to get the file. This is what I am talking about- MS goes out of their way to make things hard to use, buggy and of course proprietary. Yes I was crazy to think they could ever change their ways and make something customer friendly.

[Hasta_La_Vista]

Yeah, you do not know what you are talking about.
The Windows Empire is very friendly....... to your pocketbook. If you were as broke as the poorest African countries they have a $2 version of their os/office warez. The Emperor became conscious of those folks after the OLPC project started shipping the $100 laptop donations.
When you have your office in Windows Space - your motto - "Whatever it takes..."..
Beautiful! Isn't it so ?

[Hasta_La_Vista]

To all the animal lovers of the kingdom of code, the best advice I can offer is:
DONT
Power corrupts - Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Hasta_La_Vista, Ballmer, which in reality means - Don't call me, I'll call you !
I'll give you 4 words and a monkey dance - I + LUV + THIS + COMPANY
Keep on paying up the nose, you grease monkeys.

[Kiljoy616]

I for one can't wait for Snow Leopard I like what I have seen, and the 64 bit is sweet, that said, for 29 dollars which is less than a dinner i see no downside.

Windows 7 is sweet, i have been using it for 3 months and can't say much on the side of a bad upgrade, forget if its an update to vista, I still think MS has something here finally, what I still have a problem with Microsoft is the whole issue with how many version there are, I liked the old days of 3 types. Education, Home, Pro. Just seems to me that they are over doing it with all the version.

Also have played with Office 2010 and I like it, its not perfect but dam its better than the old version, I like PowerPoint, Love Visio, but really can't get enough of the new Project Management, so much better to use. Word is nice, excel works and to me that really what is important.

That said, there is really no reason for anyone who does not have capital whether its a company or individual to upgrade at this time. Windows XP SP3 works fine and in many ways is a stable mature OS.

Games run really good on it, I still actually use Windows XP for gaming just because the difference from a gamer side between XP and vista/windows 7 just are not that big deal, drivers not only are excellent for nvidia cards for XP but Direct X 10 just does not seem to make much of a difference when it comes to visuals.

What I do like is how different both companies are moving, sure each company copy things other have done but thats life, but at the same time I do like how the interface do seem to be moving a bit in different directions for user, either way, keep rocking Apple and MS. Now if only MS would lower the price a bit I think there be more adoptions.

And for those that can't afford it, oh well, i am sure you can't afford a lot of things so this is just one more thing to ***** about haha.

[antifanboi]

It's always interesting to see fanatics from all sides trumpeting the benefits and merits of their respective OSes. But in my opinion the only OS that had proven to be both stable and robust was IBM's OS2/Warp 4. True 32-bit architecture, an easy GUI and aside from a couple of BSOD's once in a while, compatibility with most MS products.

Of course, many of you may not have heard about it - this OS existed in the 90's, and you'll have to Google it to understand the rest of the story. It's a shame that Big Blue had to pull out of the OS game.

As for my RC of Win 7, I'm enjoying it on my dual-core Celeron and 2 Gigs of RAM. I wonder how it would work when I upgrade to Core2.

And if Apple can free their Leopards for use on homemade PCs, I might buy that too.

To each his/her own, eh?

[beatleman1943]

I think it's pretty cool that PC manufacturers and Microsoft are giving upgrades to 7 for little or no cost at all! They clearly dont need to do this, bc the people bought Vista on the PC. Practically everyone knows how Vista is (although i have a new Sony Vaio and Vista is pretty nice...) and people still bought it. Microsoft and the PC makers could be happy with this, selling many PCs with Vista, or they could remain happy at the fact that the majority of people in this world use and will continue using PCs, but no, they know their mistakes and are fixing it- upgrading Vista to Windows7 at a cheap cost or for free, depending on which computer you have...

[beesley404]

I am an oldie but still a little confused, most of you guys and girls are concerned about how windows 7 performs against vista and XP. my concern is that my adobe photoshop CS 3 will work with windows 7.
I can't afford to buy the CS4 and cs3 is fine for me. The windows 95 was fantastic until hackers decided to spoil it for everyone. 98 and 98 se was superb. 2000 and XP also had their attributes but Vista is totally excellent . If you can do better then ,join up with the software developers and help them make the Ultimate THE.Ultimate version of the best of the best instead of complaining about them. If we all helped eachother rather than complaining and pulling eachother down by giving positive input against negative responses then we all would benefit. Open source OS are great. but without microsoft and Mac they would be non starters. Be thankful for what we have and improve on it . There is nohing in this life that is certain other than death and taxes. so come on guys and girls. use your brains and make a perfect world without criticizing those who are realy trying to improve our environment on and in the computerized world. the mind boggles , help someone else to improve life. perish the thought.
If it works no need to fix it. I'm allright Jack. hope my old programs work with windows 7 because one day I may have to migrate from Vista to 7 but I guess it will be in a few years time .because you guys are still argueing about it so there needs to be improvements. I hope one day I can use something that everyone agrees about, prhaps a bit of microsoft windows, a bit of Mac and a bit of open source operating systems all working together. Abolish all religions and pehaps there wil be no more wars when our young people will be able to live and not die in vain.
All my best wishes. Steve.

[siddNullus]

Being that Vista was a complete waste of time and money for anyone using a PC, Microsoft should be giving a copy of Windows 7 to anyone who is currently suffering with and uses Vista at no charge. Period. The lack of foresight on the part of Microsoft has absolutely no excuse, especially after the Mac OS upgrade that caused identical problems a few years back. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Are you listening Microsoft? ~sN