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Just installed SP1 on 64bit professional. Went smoothly in 20 mins. Freed up 7GB of diskspace on my SSD. Nice!
Now THIS is interesting. Seriously? Do you know where the fat was cut?
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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.
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."
...and so how are they going to buy the next version of the operation system in a years time? I had this with Win XP - I prob used it for 8 years+. Vista was no reason to upgrade. Then I discovered OSX and made the switch over to Mac.
Like every Windows user does: bundled with a new computer.
You are not Microsoft's client. Dell, HP, IBM, Acer are their clients. Your purchases are rounding errors.
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...and so how are they going to buy the next version of the operation system in a years time? I had this with Win XP - I prob used it for 8 years+. Vista was no reason to upgrade. Then I discovered OSX and made the switch over to Mac.
Same here. Then I discovered Windows 7 and switched back to PC.
I've recently worked for a large bank still running XP and IE6 and their migration policy stipulated that upgrades to the OS weren't considered until a SP has been released; perhaps this is more widespread, and enterprise applications notwithstanding, the insignificance of the Win7 updates could be in anticipation of IE9...
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.
What do you mean integrated? I bought Home Premium and Pro version from Microsoft online store and they did provide ISOs and even USB tool to put the ISO on flash drives.
Upgrades continue to this day! As an example, I updated my last household PC to Windows 7 Ultimate (up from Windows MCE 2004 from HP: a frankenstein OS). It runs better than ever (2.4Ghz, 2GB memory). Media Center works great (looks like MCE 2005). For a 7 year old PC with AGP graphics (7600 GT) it's surprising how well Windows 7 performs. Assuming nothing breaks, it's still a good 'dev test server' for .NET and LAMP…