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by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes  |  December 27, 2008 5:35am PST  |  Image 1 of 61

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Windows 7 beta 1 (build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400)

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  • Too much like Vista
    If users can't get the bad taste of Vista out of their mouths why would they eat something that looks like it again?
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    netriks
    28th Dec 2008
  • your missing the point
    Too much like vista? What are you expecting, a brand new UI? There's nothing wrong with the current one.
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    sharp65
    28th Dec 2008
  • You're missing an apostrophe
    You're missing an apostrophe, just
    thought I'd point that out (oooh, see, another
    apostrophe) - just teasing.

    Quick tip - the apostrophe has three uses:
    1) to form possessives of nouns
    2) to show the omission of letters
    3) to indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters.

    On a more related note, I generally like Vista aside
    from memory management issues and the terrible UI of
    the networking center.

    I look forward to Win7, hope it lives up to some of
    the hype.
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    qwerty123467
    28th Dec 2008
  • An YOU have a sentence fragment...
    "I look forward to Win7, hope it lives up to some of the hype." is NOT proper. Either you should have used the word "and" instead of the comma OR you should have used a semicolon and added another "I" before "hope." And, before you write back to say that the period after "hope" in my last sentence should be AFTER the quote, please note that a quote at the end of a sentence must include the period within the quotation marks.
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    TedZeck
    29th Dec 2008
  • And?
    I think you meant to say "And" not "An" in your subject. Idiot. Learn to speel!
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    robertl30
    31st Dec 2008
  • Get off
    Get off this site kid.
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    MrViklund
    31st Dec 2008
  • Vista Ultimate
    I paid almost ?300 for Vista Ultimate and have been very happy with it so far, with none of the problems that other have experienced evident on either my wife's laptop or my own machine (Individual and Separate Installations ... more fool me!).

    My question now, is this: Why would I give any more money to MS when it now appears that they are not going to support Vista with all the promised "extras" etc., now that they have moved on to Windows 7?

    Add to this the next question I see appearing within the next 12 months or so: Why has MS abandoned Windows 7 for whatever "new" (similar) incarnation comes next? Could this be another "financial" decision? Why did the makers of "long life" electric bulbs suddenly change their design for less "long life" versions?

    I have always been a supporter of Microsoft over the years but this is just too friggin' much dudes, and my next machine will either be unix based or a Mac, as much as it hurts me to say that, as I have always hated Apple for not being open architecture! End of Rant ... for now at least!
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    Johnny Brandie
    29th Dec 2008
  • ?300? I could buy an entire computer with that much money! NT
    NT
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    Drakaran
    29th Dec 2008
  • Just a word of wisdom
    You don't seem to have a problem with money or else you would have an Apple puter by now. I have been into puters for over 35 years and have seen MS grow from nothing to where it is now. It is time for all NS lovers - slaves - followers to say they want an OS for 10 years not as soon as they get comfortable with a OS there is a new OS. Come on this is foolish and not for me if I have 400 licenses to buy every time MS needs money.
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    Richie_z
    29th Dec 2008
  • Windows 7 = Windows Vista 2.0
    Well I sure hope its snappier than Vista in every way, I have been running Vista ultimate 64bit, and still had to do tons of tweaks shown here:

    http://pcwizkid.blogspot.com/2007/09/windows-vista-tips.html

    to get it to run the way I want.

    cheers
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    PCWizKid
    28th Dec 2008
  • Thanks, I couldn't help noticing...
    your change of owner name tip. Would this also change your NTFS permissions?

    I tried to get rid of Norton off my Vista installation the other day, and realized I had almost no privileges in installing software from then on; even though I was configured as administrator.

    It was a constant headache of taking ownership of one folder or another so I could get anything to install, and actually be functionable. I finally gave up and restored the drive to default factory condition.(wipe and reinstall)

    The only thing I'd add to that, is that I hope the old NIS 2008 is more stable than the new version.
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    JCitizen
    28th Dec 2008
  • RE: Windows 7 beta 1 (build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400) (First look at Windows 7 beta 1)
    They need to stop building on this same old resource hog of a platform and start over. They need to start from scratch with a new kernel, memory manager, windowing platform, services, etc. They also need to audit their code to ensure its optimized and secure. So much bad code from novice and intermediate coders makes it into the final product its a shame. Unfortunately they don't seem to be doing much of either of these and that is why their product is a joke...
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    swinslow99
    28th Dec 2008
  • Still bloated like VISTA
    I wasted my money on VISTA because it
    was pre-installed. It's performance
    sucks - memory and speed. Don't
    shove it to us again because I won't
    buy anything that has Windows 7 in
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    paper_ricebowl
    28th Dec 2008
  • Did you try the beta?
    Windows 7 was supposed to be a stripped down version of Vista written in the same code.
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    JCitizen
    28th Dec 2008
  • RE: Windows 7 beta 1 (build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400) (First look at Windows 7 beta 1)
    if there was programme that allows linux to run every programme in the world through emulation
    and was free. it would do serious damage to Microsoft.

    Or if computers started to come with an extra slot and where never ever pre installed with any OS and this extra slot needed you to put a hard drive like thing (lets call it an OS stick) , and the OS stick had the OS system on it depending in which buy . That would do serious damage.

    Or if all COmputers came built in with Both Linux and Windows and when windows got a virus or a problem and the ser can only acces the boot menu but can then choose to use linux and is forced to becuase Windows no longer function becuase of viruses that would also kil.

    Microsoft has a good relationship with Dell, HP e.t.c
    uying only
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    thenewguy101
    28th Dec 2008
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