I have been running Win 7 for a while now on a spare laptop, having acquired it through a torrent site, but MS have said at CES that they are going to be releasing legit beta versions on the 9th January – take a look here. There is a feel out there that MS were behind the original torrent releases anyway, but it’s nice for the tech community to get a "legit" look in.
So far it looks good, but whilst there are a lot of neat features, I can’t help but feel that it’s kind of Vista service pack X.
There is a lot of negativity out there about Vista, and a lot of it I feel is unjustified and due more to hearsay than people actually seeing it, (google the Mojave project!), and I feel that Win 7 is probably little more than a new name and a bit of spit and polish to improve sales.
Would that stop me from upgrading when released – no of course not! I’m a computing geek and will always upgrade!!
Being a computer geek can be expensive…
But fun
By: Brad on 8 January 2009
at 05:14
Definately fun – especially when you “try” to explain it to your wife and family….!
By: garyquigley on 8 January 2009
at 06:35
Forget MS – Ubunto is a user friendly linux distro
By: Simon on 8 January 2009
at 21:51
1) It’s Ubuntu not ubunto!
2) Linux even with the latest Ubuntu flavours is an OS that requires users to know more about computing than is strictly necessary. Whilst I personally am happy to play with Ubuntu, (I have the latest release running in a virtual machine); it’s just easier to run Windows given that the rest of the family have to use it.
By: garyquigley on 11 January 2009
at 16:43