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Windows 7 SP1 is out

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Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

#11

Post by krmmalik »

maxxxxx wrote: post #10

That's the problem with Microsoft these days. It's just plain boring. Windows 7 has been out for more than a year and no new features.

Two ways to look at what you just said. Windows 7 is a very solid OS. I've been using it for the past year or so now, and this is the first time that i'm using a Windows OS that i havent said to myself on almost weekly basis, "I wish the OS could do X, or y or z"

The whole ecosystem is changing, and so maybe we dont demand so much from the OSes in themselves anymore, at least not in terms of feature-set itself.

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

#15

Post by maxxxxx »

krmmalik wrote: post #11
maxxxxx wrote: post #10

That's the problem with Microsoft these days. It's just plain boring. Windows 7 has been out for more than a year and no new features.

Two ways to look at what you just said. Windows 7 is a very solid OS. I've been using it for the past year or so now, and this is the first time that i'm using a Windows OS that i havent said to myself on almost weekly basis, "I wish the OS could do X, or y or z" The whole ecosystem is changing, and so maybe we dont demand so much from the OSes in themselves anymore, at least not in terms of feature-set itself.

I agree. It's just hard to stay interested when they update their stuff only every 3 years or so.

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

#16

Post by kenjackson »

I think we may have some history in the making here. This is the first SP1 for an MS OS release that I have no interest in installing. I probably will at some point, but my system is running so well that w/o new features I fail to see what the upside can be.

Who would've thunk anyone would say about Windows... "No need for SP1. The original version is working like a charm."

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

#17

Post by pero »

maxxxxx wrote: post #10

That's the problem with Microsoft these days. It's just plain boring. Windows 7 has been out for more than a year and no new features.

Hardly boring. Updating provided me with adventure of traversing the clusterfuck that is the Dell website and re-discovering all kinds of interesting drivers, only to be told they're 'not compatible with this version of Windows'.

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

#18

Post by ximeng »

Note that you don't need the 1.9GB file linked there to install this on one PC. You should be able to get it from Windows Update. I needed to select it, it was listed as an "important update" but deselected by default.

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

#19

Post by icefox »

maxxxxx wrote: post #15
krmmalik wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two ways to look at what you just said. Windows 7 is a very solid OS. I've been using it for the past year or so now, and this is the first time that i'm using a Windows OS that i havent said to myself on almost weekly basis, "I wish the OS could do X, or y or z" The whole ecosystem is changing, and so maybe we dont demand so much from the OSes in themselves anymore, at least not in terms of feature-set itself.

I agree. It's just hard to stay interested when they update their stuff only every 3 years or so.

Or... Hard to stay interested when [my company] uses XP.

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

#20

Post by AbnormalGun »

I have found Windows 7 to be a pretty good OS, I am happy to say. I just wish Microsoft would make the intergrated Windows 7 Install DVD ISOs available for download, like the do for MSDN and Technet, even if they charged a small fee for it.
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