Board upgrade 1800-1900hrs 07/02/2008

[campbell]

I might have my sums wrong, but...

Windows 3 (who remembers that...)
Windows 4 = Windows95 and 97
Windows 5 = Windows 2000
Windows 6 = Windows XP
Windows 7 = Vista

?

[Shug]

Ah - 2000 was a continuation of the NT line of products, not the consumer line, so isn't in that order. That's why it looks wrong.

[steve_weegie]

Windows 3 (who remembers that...)

Ah - 2000 was a continuation of the NT line of products, not the consumer line, so isn't in that order. That's why it looks wrong.

And people call "me" a geek.....

[campbell]

More importantly, what's the answer...is Win7 just Vista after all?!

[steve_weegie]

I believe it goes somthing like this - all upset by the versioning of XP...

The OS Designation for Vista is 6.0, retrieved from running "ver" from a "cmd" window.
As XP was essentially an update to the Windows 2000 kernel, and merged the pro / consumer product lines, it didnt receive a new designation and was branded windows 5.1
Win2000 was designated Windows 5
NT 4 was designated Windows 4

I am a geek

[campbell]

very well, I stand corrected!

so what IS Win 7 then?

[steve_weegie]

Dont take this as gospel, but i think windows 7 is more or a rebranding excersise from microsoft rather than a fresh new o/s... It's internal os designation is windows 6.1.7000 for the current beta, as it is based on the vista kernel, but dont know if they will change this to 7 in the release to keep the internal release and product names the same.

I would love to believe that this is a shift away from marketing hype by microsoft, ditching fancy names that mean nothing and concentrating on the enginieering in the software... Vista has completely failed to penetrate the business market & coupled with the disgrace that is office 2007 has put Microsoft in a very bad light with a lot of people. At a time when Software as a service providers such as google are beginning to threaten the MS thick client install base, and OpenOffice with or without an underlying linux o/s can be a very cheap option, microsoft know they have to get this right...

I wait with baited breath

[campbell]

Indeed. And all this at a time when MS announces 5000 job cuts. They certainly need to sharpen up their act to stay in (ahead?) of the game.

Anyway...back to SE RSS feeds...can't wait!

[Sanjøy]

Sanjoy, are you running Windows 7 Beta?

Are there a lot of differences from Vista?

tut

Sorry been a busy week. Yes running Windows 7 Beta and it f'ing rocks. Was on Vista 64 bit which I would describe as "sticky". Gadgets are finally freed up and can be anywhere, much MUCH snappier and the biggest win of less memory over heads. Sarah and I use the same machine and also use the guest login for music so that we can synch ipds and iphones and not have to manage two copies of Itunes, can have all three users logged in with 2GB of RAM now, Vista 64 was sittignat 90% RAM used.
IE8 is pish on it but never been a user of it so all good. Still learning all the extra functions features etc but initial observations after 2 weeks is for a beta I would buy it right here and now.

[Stewart]

How does paying for a beta version work? Do you ultimately have to pay to upgrade to the release version? Could you rewind back to Vista if you wanted to (assuming you haven't installed it to a separate partition?
Just curious as I am running Vista 64 and very happy with it. I don't use any of the gadgets really, found them to be a bit gimmicky

[Sanjøy]

Dear Mods can we have this installed pls it detects the mobile browser you are using and resizes stuff to make it look pretty like and you do not have to zoom all the time.

I assume it is similar to the mod running on seloc what redirects you to http://m.seloc.org which is the mobile browser edition.

Thank you!

[tut]

Sanjoy

I have been running Windows 7 Beta build 7000 for a few weeks now, and found it a great improvement over XP and Vista. Installed the latest build yesterday 7077 which could well be RC1, so will check out any differences.

tut

[~ ~ Cal ~ ~]

Lost the rag with Windoze 9 months or so ago. When you go Mac you dont go back ! Safari seems waaaay faster than Firefox or IE

http://www.apple.com/imac/software.html

I have ONE wire going into the back of my iMac and the OS software is awesome. Virrii issues are very much a minor thought rather than an irksome worry

Has anyone in here been affected by the MS cuts ? I know of one person who was forced to go part-time in Edinburgh. Things must be bad if Billy Gates is chopping folk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009 ... redundancy

Anyone running LINUX set-up's ?

[tut]

We have two Asus Netbooks running Linux(Xandros), using one now in bed and the desktop a lot less, and as most of my time is Internet based, it is ideal 1.1kg weight and six hours battery time.

Never crashed yet and boots up in seconds, though it is rarely turned off. Copes fine with video, streaming, iPlayer etc. However I would not run Linux on the desktop, I like being able to click on an .exe file to run or install a program, and Windows 7 is proving to be very fast, stable, and I have no problems with Virus's, malware etc nowadays.

tut

[campbell]

Has anyone in here been affected by the MS cuts ? I know of one person who was forced to go part-time in Edinburgh. Things must be bad if Billy Gates is chopping folk

I know some of the MS people in Edin, working with a few of them just now. Who went p/t, I thought most of them were in OK shape.