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Title: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: Computer Hope Admin on May 01, 2009, 09:22:14 PM

Desperate beta testers brought down Microsoft's Windows 7 download page yesterday for about two hours.

Only Microsoft Developer Network members and TechNet members were offered keys, but Microsoft still had to make some changes to keep the site up and running. The MSDN blog said "systems are having trouble keeping up" and thanked people for their patience.

Link (http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/05/01/download_crash_windows/)
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: patio on May 02, 2009, 07:15:52 AM
Just recieved my Invite from TechNet....DLoad servers still down.
Grabbed my keys though for 32 and 64bit Ultimate ....so i guess i'll wait til later today.

 :'(
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: TorrentIt on May 02, 2009, 11:24:29 AM
Desperate beta testers brought down Microsoft's Windows 7 download page yesterday for about two hours.

Only Microsoft Developer Network members and TechNet members were offered keys, but Microsoft still had to make some changes to keep the site up and running. The MSDN blog said "systems are having trouble keeping up" and thanked people for their patience.

Link (http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/05/01/download_crash_windows/)
Wow,
Nice,
Lol
I Think It Will Be Horrible,
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: squall_01 on May 02, 2009, 12:31:17 PM
which brings up a question, will the keys work once its realsed.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: patio on May 03, 2009, 09:52:06 AM
Servers still down...... :'(
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: computeruler on May 03, 2009, 10:18:45 AM
Torrentit: why would win7 be horrible? I actually think it will be good
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: Karnac on May 03, 2009, 10:25:20 AM
The team of developers of Millenium were the same developers of Vista
The team of developers of Windows 7 are the same developers of XP.

At least that's the rumour.

And no, I have no source for this information.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: patio on May 03, 2009, 01:11:27 PM
The Team of ME developers are living under assorted bridges in the State of Washington.....
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: evilfantasy on May 03, 2009, 01:49:38 PM
ME was the first computer I bought with my own money which was pre-XP. If you don't know any better it's a very good OS. Same applies to XP and one day we will be saying that about 7 (hopefully). In another 15 years just think what it's going to be like if technology grows the same as it has in the prior 15 years.

It's evolution...

The rapid advancement in hardware is forcing the new technology. It's not all the fault of MS. They are trying to keep up just like we are.

/rant  :D
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: squall_01 on May 03, 2009, 02:02:18 PM
how is it that you think such things?  I think that there both better then there predasacors.  In such like windows 3.1 was better then the dos they had.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: Karnac on May 03, 2009, 02:12:38 PM
All I can remember about Millenium were the freakin' BSODs....I think I had one the first boot out of the box.....I came close to packing PCs in completely because of ME....BSODs, one after another, for sessions on end, then stability for a couple of weeks, then just when you were getting comfortable, another punch to the groin.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: squall_01 on May 03, 2009, 02:18:05 PM
funny you sure it was illegal?  I never ran into one for as long as we had it.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: Karnac on May 03, 2009, 03:03:25 PM
Absolutely, nothing but legal here......it was a nightmare.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: squall_01 on May 03, 2009, 03:15:15 PM
then how do you have bsod?
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: Karnac on May 03, 2009, 03:37:36 PM
No idea.......It was a mystery nightmare.....I dumped it as soon as I could.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: squall_01 on May 03, 2009, 03:39:52 PM
like I said that I dont have to worry about it.  But at any rate I dont use it at this point.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: iamtonsoffun247 on May 04, 2009, 11:52:46 PM
Im downloading Windows 7RC now :) bout 5 hrs to go :( but its fine since ill let it DL overnight :) nice surprise in the morning.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: patio on May 05, 2009, 09:25:55 PM
WinME's issues were mostly user inflicted.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: squall_01 on May 06, 2009, 08:55:09 AM
exatly, wait so there realseing a more stable copy of it?
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: lectrocrew on May 08, 2009, 02:28:09 AM
Quote from: patio
The Team of ME developers are living under assorted bridges in the State of Washington.....
Shame on you! lol

Quote from: evilfantasy
ME was the first computer I bought with my own money which was pre-XP
Me too.  :)

Quote from: patio
WinME's issues were mostly user inflicted.
One of which was myself. lol  I just started using Windows 7 RC yesterday and have managed to generate a few 'user inflicted issues' already. But I wouldn't say "here we go again" quite yet. One problem was with my Trend Micro Internet Security Pro causing a crash. Back when I inflicted issues with ME it would have taken me 3 days to find the Trend Micro Win 7 beta download. This time it only took 2.  ;D

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Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: Doubleringer on May 15, 2009, 12:50:59 AM
Hi,
I currently have Windows 7 on my Toshiba Laptop, it looks great and is easily a replacement for Vista, it only took 30 minutes to install, and it boots faster and is faster in use. Had a problem with wireless, but now after an update - it all works great. I will definitely purchase this OS when it is released around August 2009.
 ;D
DR

Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: Computer Hope Admin on May 15, 2009, 11:09:26 AM
Hi,
I currently have Windows 7 on my Toshiba Laptop, it looks great and is easily a replacement for Vista, it only took 30 minutes to install, and it boots faster and is faster in use. Had a problem with wireless, but now after an update - it all works great. I will definitely purchase this OS when it is released around August 2009.
 ;D
DR

Good to hear.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: 2x3i5x on May 15, 2009, 10:22:26 PM
Windows 7 is a nice operating system, don't know if it' feels any faster than vista but I hear it's designed at the netbook level, so the older vista capable computers can become good windows 7 home premium (or whatever they call it) pc's!
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: squall_01 on May 16, 2009, 04:44:49 PM
heard that it was going to be realsed this summer some time.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: 2x3i5x on May 16, 2009, 06:32:43 PM
heard that it was going to be realsed this summer some time.

Yes, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 7 for 2009 holiday gifts will be possible  :D
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: squall_01 on May 17, 2009, 05:11:40 AM
its sadly taking a while for me cause I dont have a fast connection so its been like two days.  May have something to do tommorow or even possibly later an will try again.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: computeruler on May 17, 2009, 08:26:04 AM
I installed it on a virtual pc but I couldnt install the drivers I needed so I got rid of it
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: patio on May 17, 2009, 05:24:28 PM
I installed it on a virtual pc but I couldnt install the drivers I needed so I got rid of it

98% of Vista drivers will run your hardware on it if you care to give it another go...
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: computeruler on May 17, 2009, 05:26:21 PM
I tried vista sound drives and they didn't work.  I really dont care though.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: patio on May 17, 2009, 05:50:28 PM
There you have it...
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: 2x3i5x on May 17, 2009, 07:59:26 PM
I tried vista sound drives and they didn't work.  I really dont care though.

Sound drivers for my realtek AC'97 is fine. I tested it on windows 7 RC 32 but. Windows 7 seem about same as win vista in general except for obvious appearance changes like the taskbar and the newer editions of windows media player, movie maker, etc. It's decent though.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: squall_01 on May 18, 2009, 03:44:29 AM
why people like it better maybe today hard to tell so much to do.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on May 18, 2009, 04:36:20 AM
Right...yeah Squall....

Sound drivers for my realtek AC'97 is fine. I tested it on windows 7 RC 32 but. Windows 7 seem about same as win vista in general
I haven't been able to get my sound driver working for Windows 7 on my Desktop. No matter though.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: squall_01 on May 18, 2009, 04:40:07 AM
there is a possiblity, I cant say that I will get the copy of it for sure but at any rate.
Title: Re: Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on May 18, 2009, 04:55:35 AM
A possibility you will get WIndows 7 for free when it comes out? I believe you mentioned that before.

Anyways, that's pretty cool.