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Windows 7 SP1 is out

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Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

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Post by rimantas »

anonymous246 wrote: post #68
larrywright wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I ask why? I'm really curious, I don't believe I know anyone who has ever switched back to Windows from OS X. I use Win 7 at work and OS X at home, and while Win 7 is the best version of Windows I've ever used (and I started on 3.1), it's no match for OS X.

I tried Mac for some time and LOVED LOVED the lack of crapware, but I found it overrated: 1. Blurry text :) 2. iLife apps are nicely approximated by Windows Live. Before I checked out Windows Live Movie Maker, I was very impressed with iMovie. 3. Lack of apps (e.g., wasn't able to find a decent fullscreen, borderless terminal emulator like the alt-enter mode of putty). 4. Didn't seem especially fast or anything compa…

#3: Visor

#5: OS X is certified UNIX, you cannot get more unixy than that.

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

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Post by Sticker »

riobard wrote: post #60
Sticker wrote: post #27

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…

How are you going to test LAMP on Windows 7? L stands for Linux.

Those are just examples of course, but 2 methods come to mind: WAMP install works good, or "andLinux" or something to virtualize Linux.

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

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Post by dagw »

larrywright wrote: post #62
jquery wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. Then I discovered Windows 7 and switched back to PC.

Can I ask why? I'm really curious, I don't believe I know anyone who has ever switched back to Windows from OS X. I use Win 7 at work and OS X at home, and while Win 7 is the best version of Windows I've ever used (and I started on 3.1), it's no match for OS X.

I've also mostly switched back. From a day to day usability standpoint I honestly don't find any compelling difference between the two. They both have their annoyances, but nothing that is significantly worse than the other. Both let me get my work done without getting too much in my way. Windows on the other gives me a far wider selection of hardware and software.

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

#74

Post by sireat »

dotBen wrote: post #25
kenjackson wrote: post #16

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.

I am in the situation of having done Windows XP -> Ubuntu 7->10 -> Windows 7 pro(re)gression at my main workstation.

Windows 7 just feels good, lots of small things their usability guys have gotten right. Haven't run into any major problems yet.

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

#75

Post by trezor »

ximeng wrote: post #18

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.

Yeah. And it was about 100MB, not 2GBs.

Careful though: I managed to hose one of my Windows 7 VMs with the stock WU SP1 update. Do remember to take your snapshots. I didn't :(

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

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Post by ck2 »

The update is 2GB in size? Whoa.

Oh wait, that's a fully patched W7, the update is really 100mb.

32bit x86 http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/A/F/0AFB5316-3062-4...

64bit x64 http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/A/F/0AFB5316-3062-4...

AllInOne http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/A/F/0AFB5316-3062-4...

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

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Post by timthorn »

riobard wrote: post #59
blinkingled wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

He wants an ISO that packs in SP1.

They don't provide that on MSDN - the ISO there just contains the SP1 installers for Win2K8 and Win7.

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

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Post by tsvk »

AbnormalGun wrote: post #20

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.

Yeah, true.

Fortunately the MSDN subscriber downloads inventory is publicly browsable: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/defa...

From there we can see the download details for all "Windows 7 with Service Pack 1" ISO files (all Windows 7 editions, all processor architectures and all languages).

From there we can for example see the following information for the English Professional x64 version:

  File Name: en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_621750.iso
  Date Published (UTC): 2/16/2011 8:49:08 AM	Last Updated (UTC): 2/16/2011 8:49:08 AM
  SHA1: 5ED2584110E03F498DB4458BA9FAFD5A7EF602ED	ISO/CRC: 74F3CB73
With this information, I can be confident in downloading an ISO from a peer-to-peer torrent. When the hash matches, I can be assured that the file is legit and not backdoored.

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

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Post by labria »

anonymous246 wrote: post #68
larrywright wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I ask why? I'm really curious, I don't believe I know anyone who has ever switched back to Windows from OS X. I use Win 7 at work and OS X at home, and while Win 7 is the best version of Windows I've ever used (and I started on 3.1), it's no match for OS X.

I tried Mac for some time and LOVED LOVED the lack of crapware, but I found it overrated: 1. Blurry text :) 2. iLife apps are nicely approximated by Windows Live. Before I checked out Windows Live Movie Maker, I was very impressed with iMovie. 3. Lack of apps (e.g., wasn't able to find a decent fullscreen, borderless terminal emulator like the alt-enter mode of putty). 4. Didn't seem especially fast or anything compa…

#3 iTerm2

Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out

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Post by InclinedPlane »

mrcharles wrote: post #9
[deleted] wrote: post #5

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[deleted]

I dare you to click the release notes link on that page.

Indeed. This is literally all that's there: http://imgur.com/HCPZC.jpg

The bulk of it is these three links, which just point back to the same pages: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=194725 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=194726 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=194727

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