I installed windows 7 pro on a "test dummy" machine yesterday... successfully.

Today I pulled the 80 gig hard drive out of my laptop, slapped in a 250, did 3 partitions, put xp on C and this afternoon completed a dual boot xp - win 7 system on the laptop I'm using right this moment.

Both were clean installs. Win7 is VERY smart about hardware and drivers and such. While I spent half the day chasing laptop drivers for xp, Win7 conjured them all out of thin air and everything on the laptop works. The dummy machine, a 2 year old asus athlon 64 board, auto installed everything with no need for the asus support dvd.

On the dummy machine, we run a high end graphics workflow management system. After 3 tries, win7 suggested that perhaps this program should run as administrator. When I agreed, it made it so, permanently. The program, which was made for XP and is a major hassle to get to run on vista, runs just fine on Win7.

When I plugged my lil webcam into the laptop, it thought about it, failed to install it, then came back a few minutes later with a suggestion that the proper driver could be downloaded from "this link" and the link did in fact go to the driver download on creative labs website.

So far, so good. tomorrow, I'm gonna try an upgrade, on my main workstation in the office, from vista ultimate 64 bit to Win 7 ultimate 64 bit. Wish me luck.

Has anyone else ventured into 7 yet?

Is it me, is Microsoft math challenged, or did they just decide to skip vista?
We had nt FOUR
Windows 2000 showed as windows FIVE
XP showed as Window SIX
Vista does not and never had a number
And now we have Windows SEVEN

Jim...

Yes...I did testing for MS on Win7 and was running RC1 on this machine before removing it. The final version we tested was good until 2010 but required many upgrades/updates. It actually ran slower than Vista on my desktop and laptop after the updates. Full clean install is best ! When the final release is out, it will be shipped to me.


Kev

Oh BTW...
Everyone knows that Vista was incomplete when released and that is why Windows7 is so good. The bugs from Vista were fixed and the add on of 7 stuff completed it. Just when I got use to using Windows Mail, its been removed from 7 and now is called Mail Live. I don't like the live version :(


Kev

Jim...
When the final release is out, it will be shipped to me.


Kev

Kev, final release is out. If you have a maps subscription, you can download it here https://www.microsoft.com/msppdd/home.aspx login with your windows live / partner id.

Yeah have been playing with it...vista sucks on netwrks
I have been around since Dos /Dos shell 311 etc
98 se came out MS need something quick for the minillium as xp was nt ready with milliuim which was a stuff up...XP came out I actually scored the 3rd copy ever sold..well it was free promotion..the 1st 10 copys
NZ is the 1st country to see dawn of the day...m8 and I lines up at night...something diffent to do lol..
Anyway XP certainly was a step up and reliable....
Vista is like milluium works but a dud.
Windows 7 like dos shell/95/98 /xp I like..its like the move from 95 to 98 and 98 to XP.

Windows 7?
Gee.... didn't know there was a 'new' version. Just shows what happens when you leave the IT field and never look back. ;)

I love XP. If 7 is half as good, I'll get it. I agree Vista is a very strange OS and does networking all wrong.
Maybe they'll leave Office alone for a few years so I can get used to all the stupid changes.

I dont wanna change my XP its flawless... wife's Vista sucks...
MS leave me alone :(

Supposedly W7 has less stringent resource requirements than Vista does. THAT'S a good thing..... for a change.
Don't think I'm ready for a quad-core upgrade yet.
:rolleyes:

I dont wanna change my XP its flawless
Even thu 7 impresses over vista, I realy dont see the advantage of changing on a network with DC /AD...
I have never figured ouy MS with the start menu...the 98 far better for user freindly
R clk start/properties/classic taskbar tick quick launch.
I understand adding admin permissions...lets face it 99% of users dont follow manufactures recommendations.
Dont surf/ daily work under a admin user...with access to system files... create users with limitted abilty, if need to load a prog or drive, switch to Admin to do so...once the machine is setup its very rare one needs to go to admin..
Also a O/s needs just to be well laid out and user friendly, uncomplicated...like 98 and XP....I think the marketting guys have lost the plot on presentation, getting the coders to add in a heap of pretty unneeded stuff just to clutter and complicate things.
Then change names of stuff, change and complicate how to get to it.....
But hey this BS sells and makes profits.

K.I.S.S Keep It Simple Stupid

ok, I'm officially impressed. After 2 successful clean installs, today I did an upgrade on my main workstation. This is a fairly robust system, athlon 64 x2 with 8 gb ram, upgrading from Vista ultimate 64 bit to Win7 ultimate 64 bit.

I didn't even bother to do a backup.

The upgrade took 2 hours, and completed flawlessly. everything works, even my ancient microtek scanner and my new webcam.

And the system is FAST now. UNBELIEVABLY fast, considering nothing changed but the OS, and it was an upgrade not a clean install.
And it's network and server stuff that is fast. opening a record or doing a search in our contact manager is instant, where it used to bog terribly. an aged recievables is up before I can click ok. I did a customer history report, all customers for the quarter, it took seven seconds. That right, 7 seconds. used to take a minute or more.

I think it's miller time.

I've been on Windows7 since beta. It is a very impressive operating system and has tons of cool features. I will be upgrading all my home machines in the near future.

A few Cool features and improvements:
Internet explorer tab hooks
Window handling and drag docking etc
application grouping
improved resource handling
comprehensive resource monitoring and logging
Very stable!