Windows 7

[Mseries3]

Anyone else got it?

I had a minor issue with a bug*ered Sata cable but after that it installed perfectly. Really liking it, so much quicker than XP, Much nicer on the eyes :cool:

Not had alot of time to test it but so far so good :)

Also because i am a student, i paid £30 for it :cool:

[Matt_300tdi90]

I've got it, installed it on Tuesday. I had Vista before and this is much quicker, some of the features take abit of getting used to, but on the whole it is a HUGE improvement on Vista :D

I'm also a student, but as i'm a student on a computing course i got it for free ;)

[biosbill]

Anyone else got it?

I had a minor issue with a bug*ered Sata cable but after that it installed perfectly. Really liking it, so much quicker than XP, Much nicer on the eyes :cool:

Not had alot of time to test it but so far so good :)

Also because i am a student, i paid £30 for it :cool:


Did you have to use a ".ac.uk" address to get that? It certainly looks brilliant if I could do that, but my student/school emails dont have that suffix (mine have .org.uk)...so??!

Edit: Ah just put in some other details and I might still be able to get it.. :)

William

[Mseries3]

Did you have to use a ".ac.uk" address to get that? It certainly looks brilliant if I could do that, but my student/school emails dont have that suffix (mine have .org.uk)...so??!

Yup.

You have to jump through a Few hoops if you don't want to use the upgrade function and install from scratch.

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/30470-make-bootable-iso-student-d-l.html

[biosbill]

Cheers for that, will see how I get on. That might be very handy though!

Thanks,

William

[freelanderPX54]

Bill. If you are struggling I can get windows 7 using my NHS email. I have a mac so I won't be upgrading my windows laptop

[Andrew Swift]

Just got it on a new laptop. Still finding my way around but so far looks good. The problem I have is I am used to using Outlook Express and it doesnt come with anything and so have had to download live mail. Not so sure on this yet.

Andrew

[northend]

You could join the partner programme for MS. Then for £199 per year you essentially get ALL the MS software with ten licences for things such as Office and the operating systems.

Although it helps owing a company :D

I think there's about £12k worth of software provided. However, you have to state that you are "in the trade".

Have 6 W7 licences, will put it a laptop this weekend and see what happens!!!

[ER1C]

The Registered Partner Programme doesnt give software until you join the Action Pack which I assume is which you mean ? as this is £199... They just went discless which is great as you can download instantly and I have been running Final Windows 7 from them well before it was out in the shops to test with.. All legal and all above board.

They added a test now so you have to pass and get 80 percent on some pretty basic questions about selling their software and stuff.

Anyway :) Windows 7..... LOVELY... smaller resource footprint than XP... I think MS really realise the screwed up with VISTA... FYI Windows 7 sold more in pre release orders than VISTA did in an entire YEAR.... .How scary is that....

[clueless1]

Did you know that Windows 7 was my idea?

[northend]

Yes, they told me it was your idea, but they also told me you thought of Vista, so we'll call it even! :D

[Dave78]

I've currently got Windows XP, which with next new update seems to run a bit slower.. do you tihnk it's worth upgrading to windows 7, or wait till service pack 1 is released first?

[P00DLE]

I've currently got Windows XP, which with next new update seems to run a bit slower.. do you tihnk it's worth upgrading to windows 7, or wait till service pack 1 is released first?

i currently have it running on 2 pcs and 2 laptops at home and im well impressed. been running it on 1 laptop as dual boot since first beta. as soon as it was available i upgraded all my systems that would cope with it.

would be running it on my work pc but cant get a driver for the soundcard so i upgraded that to vista instead. untill i can find an excuse to aquire one of the spare pcs that came in last week think i may need to test one of them for a bit.

if your pc is good enough to run it go for it you wont be disapointed.

[steve@offroadin]

just installed the 64bit version, all working okay so far, nice to look at :cool: