Windows 7 in the news.

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Directive · #1 Post by **Directive** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:14 am

Windows 7: The good, the bad, the unknown

#2 Post by **palmboy5** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:11 am

Hah yes mind as well read an article published by a Microsoft-affiliated news site.
About the lack of Photo Gallery and Movie Maker? Boooo! Yes, I still had to find versions to install for my brother. Photo Gallery is capable of generic import from camcorders and whatever stuff his group school projects may need.

Other things missing! Windows Mobile Device Center, and an email program to go with it. Outlook Express is no more, but with Windows Mobile Device Center installed (albeit not made for 7), it expects to find an email program to sync contacts with every time I plug in my phone (Windows Mobile) even after I uncheck all synchronization options. Annoying little error message every time. :\

AND THE SIDEBAR! I want Vista's sidebar, I want my gadgets to have their own reserved screen space! Vista sidebar works for the most part in Win7, but it has its glitches.

Directive · #3 Post by **Directive** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:21 pm

I agree about the side bar. I use outlook for email. I know nothing about windows mobile. I use bit-pim and that seems to do the trick with my phone, but then again my phone is capable of doing a lot more then what I just use it for. I never used movie maker or photo gallery.

#4 Post by **palmboy5** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 11:53 pm

Whats interesting to me is that, they took out so many infrequently-used programs, YET they include something new:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell

(# people who will use PowerShell) - (# people who would have used Movie Maker) = better be a positive number, or else this doesn't make sense to me.

On a side note, I like PowerShell

It's the original command prompt on steroids and has the 'ls' command!

2005 · #5 Post by **2005** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:31 am

We'll I'll be damned... windows is using unix commands.

I like windows 7... it feels like what vista should have been. Its got the speed of XP with the overall feel of vista (they did clean up the UAC a lot).

Overall I'm impressed... everything works great after I formatted my Dell XPS M1530 and installed Windows 7 Build 7600 RTM. Made it activated and genuine and this puppys good to go

#6 Post by **palmboy5** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:21 am

Did you get the RTM to have forever license?

2005 · #7 Post by **2005** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:23 pm

LOL this is about a month old but yes I did. I have installed windows 7 on a good many different machines now all fully activated and all can use windows update without any issues.

Windows 7 is working well so far, I have nothing to complain about.

#8 Post by **palmboy5** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:31 am

Interesting, because last I checked (which was after your claim and my question), there were no "forever license" cracks, mainly because the thing didn't even come out yet for them to know certain things they needed to know about OEM something. I'll still wait past 10/22 to get the final build, regardless

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#9 Post by **palmboy5** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:10 pm

Awesome college membership with MSDNAA, I just got Windows 7 Pro x64 for free, legally!

Directive · #10 Post by **Directive** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:12 pm

#11 Post by **palmboy5** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:47 pm

Noesss turns out I can only "buy" a single copy per account lol.

Horray for Windows 7 Ultimate x64 OEM though, its the copy that doesn't need serial or activation is genuine in the eyes of Microsoft. Finally found it. Cracks and keygens are for losers!

Directive · #12 Post by **Directive** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:03 pm

*in best Arnold impression* Ya, you a looooser, now get out. get out now or I break you with my pinky.

2005 · #13 Post by **2005** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:09 pm

palmboy5 wrote:Noesss turns out I can only "buy" a single copy per account lol.

Horray for Windows 7 Ultimate x64 OEM though, its the copy that doesn't need serial or activation is genuine in the eyes of Microsoft. Finally found it. Cracks and keygens are for losers!

Lol I have a MSDN account through my college too... but it doesn't matter. My windows 7 (which is fully activated and works with updates and everything) was not only free but was also installed back in JULY. Its the same build they have today and my install has yet to be "deactivated".

Take it how you'd like...