Now that is weird as fuck.

According to Alcohol's forum, it will not run under Windows 7 beta. You running the 32 or 64 bit beta?

 

32 at the moment, but im in the process of grabbing 64.

 

A authorized Microsoft Tech (who just happens to be a good friend of mine ) told me that 2 GB ram for the O/S is recommended...

I run memory intensive programs, one of my Applications use >1.5 GB each, I have two such applications... this was what turned me off from Vista...

That said, previews say the memory footprint for Windows 7 is much smaller, can some one quantify that...

 

I ran it on my laptop with only 1 GB of RAM. It worked pretty well. ~50% RAM usage at idle.

 

Bump.

I saw that M$ is offering a 50% discount for pre-orders of Home Premium and Professional.

I bought XP the first day it came out (WinME is possibly the worst OS I've ever used) and I have a couple of machines running it that still work pretty well, so I don't have a burning desire to upgrade... although XP is starting to get old (and will have an end of life at some point in the not-too-distant future), so there's the matter of wanting to learn and prepare for something new (other than Vista).

So what's the verdict? (Unlike Vista, I've actually heard decent things about Win7)

 

I upgraded a few days ago and already like it more than Vista. Apart from a couple of problems with it lacking drivers for some programs it's brilliant.

 

Windows 7 is awesome, works perfectly with everything so far, all my drivers have installed, its compatible with xp and vista shiz. One bad thing about it is that the explorer.exe (Windows Aero and such) takes alot of your ram, but i just turn it off when i game.

 

I'm using Win 7 x64 RC1 since around 40 days now, I have no complaints. There are some annoying new "features" but you can turn them off or set to behave as they did in previous versions (for example, one icon per program, no matter how many windows it uses).

There almost no problems with compatibility, most drivers are already there. The only problem I had was with installing HP 1005 MFP driver, but once I installed Vista driver in Vista compatibility mode everything worked out.

I was able to run any 32bit program I tried, but I failed to burn anything with AstroBurn. The Task Manager managed to hang itself two or three times (but my laptop is running 24/7 and this isn't the final release). You can't run any 16bit programs in x64 edition, fact you might mind if you're learning assembly language, but as far as I know it's the same for XP and Vista x64.

Overall, Microsoft seems to have put a lot of work in developing the OS, instead of forcing useless crap on the customer.