Windows 7, Successor To Vista, May Ship Next Year
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Topic: Windows 7, Successor To Vista, May Ship Next Year
Posted By: iSec
Subject: Windows 7, Successor To Vista, May Ship Next Year
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 11:50pm
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Per Bill Gates: Windows 7, Successor To Vista, May Ship Next Year
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207001912 - http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207001912
I'm so glad that Vista is being replaced! ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 05 April 2008 at 12:06am
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I quite like Vista especially now SP 1 is released, it now boots and runs much faster, and the biggest issue with Vista the slow file transfer has also been fixed. The only issue I find now with Vista is that it doesn't seem to run well as a Virtual Machine, but thats no biggy as tend to use Server OS's for dev work more as Virtual Machines rather than Vista. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 05 April 2008 at 2:41am
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I did not want to be like one of the people who decided to stick to Windows 98 thinking that XP was bad... so I gave Vista a try on more than a few occasions... but I still had major problems with it such as getting the blue screen of death.
In a lot of cases the problems were related to drivers not working well on Vista... anyways I'm so glad that it is being replaced with a new OS... I'm sure history will remember Vista the way we remember Windows Me... don't get me wrong... i know the problems in Windows Me are different than the ones in Vista but both versions will hold bad reputation. ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 05 April 2008 at 10:08am
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I've had Vista and it's server version based on the same kernel, Win2k8 running on over 20 different machines and never once seen the 'blue screen of death'. I've also not found any driver issues, infact installing Vista and Win2k8 is simpler as it has better built in support for things like RAID so no messing around installing RAID drivers from a floppy while installing the OS. The OS install itself is also much easier and faster than XP as you don't need to baby sit the installation with it pausing all the time to ask stupid questions. The only thing I would say about Vista is it is hardward intensive and I would not run it on anything less than a Dual-Core machine with 2Gig of RAM. If you need to install 3rd party drivers on Vista make sure that they are Vista drivers and not try and install XP drivers on it. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 05 April 2008 at 11:16am
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I must say after taking time to settle into Vista, I now prefer it to Windows XP. It looks sleeker, and providing you install up to date drivers, software updates on other programs, it seems to work okay The one nice thing I seem to have found as well, is adding or removing programs, doesn't seem to bother Vista as much as it does with XP, which inevitably ended up slowing down the system to the point where you were forced to reformat just to get back up to speed On the subject of Windows 7  I think Billy boy and his lot have made loads and loads of dosh from new OS releases, and I won't be hurrying in to add to his already extensive fortune. But nothing is ever written in stone  ------------- http://www.123simples.com/" rel="nofollow - Visit 123 Simples Web Design |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 05 April 2008 at 11:50am
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It's not the consumer market were the money is anyway, it's the Business Market with software like Win2k8 server and SQL Server were the big money is for Microsoft, for example the Enterprise edition of SQL Server costs £19,000 (yes I didn't miss-type the zero's). For example Web Wiz pay over £2,600 ($5,200) per year and rising in Microsoft Licensing fees, and that's small fry compared to allot of companies. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 05 April 2008 at 12:05pm
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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 05 April 2008 at 2:23pm
I moved to http://www.ubuntu.com/ - Ubuntu after playing with it for a while (found out about it on here actually), i havent looked back, and dont miss XP, havent tried Vista but i have more eye candy  Its probably not for every, and Computer Savy people would most likely find it harder to convert that a beginner, but im happy with it, works the way i want. ------------- S2H.co.uk - http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/" rel="nofollow - WebWiz Mods and Skins For support on my mods + skins, please use http://www.s2h.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - my forum . |
Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 05 April 2008 at 3:31pm
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I downloaded ubuntu but have not actually used it. I was toying with the idea of running it side by side with vista, but since I find vista okay now, I'll not attempt the vista/ubuntu idea
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 07 April 2008 at 8:12am
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If you want to use multiple OS's and try out new OS's the best thing to do is run them as virtual OS's using software like VMware server which is free. It's much simpler than trying to setup dual boot's as it uses virtual drivers often ones that suit the OS you are using so you don't have to mess around finding compatible drivers. Another good point for testing and development is the use of snap shots, were you can tack a snap shot do what ever you need and if you mess up you can just restore the virtual haddrive to were it was when you made the snap shot. We are big fans virtulization here at Web Wiz. Instead of heaving multiple servers round the office for development, VOIP, Active Directory, etc. we now have just 1 Quad-Core Server running, Windows Small Business Server, Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard, Windows Server 2008 Standard, CentOS, and any other OS's we need to add for development work. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 07 April 2008 at 3:07pm
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I checked out VMware server. I haven't installed it yet cos I dont want to screw up vista
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 07 April 2008 at 3:43pm
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I've not seen it course any issues on Vista, and you can always uninstall it quite easily. However, because Vista is power hungry you may want to run it on an XP machine unless you have lots of spare RAM. The server I mention running in our office running lots of servers OS's has over 8Gig of RAM. To do this we have the Host OS running Windows 2003 Server x64 so it can address larger amounts of memory. To run Linux though you can just give the Guest OS 256 or 512MB of memory as it doesn't require allot to run. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |