Comment Try it yourself... (Score 0) 821
I downloaded the Beta last night and installed it. A few hours to download and maybe an hour to actually install.
Part of the installation was for it to go on the internet and download patches. It quickly detected my wireless and very quickly I was watching it download and install patches (before asking me my favorite color and all the other typical setup BS).
My laptop: came with but could barely run Vista. Even after a memory upgrade I still went to XP on it.
Vista was just too interruptive(UAC) and needed a lot of tweaking to run well on the hardware it came on.. My anti-virus didn't work with Vista, my phone would not sync with it, etc...
But so far windows 7 is good. The installation was great, a departure from the in-your-face "what can windows (not) do for you" crap they have been doing since Windows 95.
Part of the installation was for it to go on the internet and download patches. It quickly detected my wireless and very quickly I was watching it download and install patches (before asking me my favorite color and all the other typical setup BS).
My laptop: came with but could barely run Vista. Even after a memory upgrade I still went to XP on it.
Vista was just too interruptive(UAC) and needed a lot of tweaking to run well on the hardware it came on.. My anti-virus didn't work with Vista, my phone would not sync with it, etc...
But so far windows 7 is good. The installation was great, a departure from the in-your-face "what can windows (not) do for you" crap they have been doing since Windows 95.