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Thu Jan 15 19:51:16 MST 2009


ribed as "Vista without the crap". It performs nearly as fast as =
WinXP and with far lighter hardware requirements than Vista. (which isn&#39=
;t hard)  From the screenshots I've seen, it has a lighter look an=
d feel that Vista, but that's just "make-up".  I'm g=
oing to make a vmware machine with it so I'll see for myself.  Sin=
ce it will be on the same machine (mac) as my WinXP vm (which I do use a lo=
t), I&#39;ll be able to compare them easily.<br>
<br>Vista was a near daily frustration, either I&#39;ve gotten used to the =
pain or its gotten a little less painful. Probably both. I still don&#39;t =
like Vista. I have to deal with it though. So I hope Win7 is better, a lot =
better, because windows a part of my job. <br>
<br>As an aside, I use Vista, WinXP, and Mac OSX a lot. Ubuntu holds itws o=
wn againts all of them. I&#39;ve read some people think Win7 is a linux kil=
ler (speaking of the netbook market). I don&#39;t buy that at all. <br>
<br>-j<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:42 AM, J=
oe Fleming <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:joe at selectitaly.com">joe=
@selectitaly.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote"=
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<font face=3D"Arial">I&#39;m really curious what all the fuss over windows =
7
is all about. I mean, it&#39;s just vista with a few changes, and from what
I can tell those changes are pretty small. I always think it&#39;s funny
seeing sites talk about how bad vista is and how much better 7 is,
considering it&#39;s really nothing more than a point release/service pack
with a new name. Apparently m$ actually DOES know how to play the
marketing game. It&#39;ll be interesting to see how it&#39;s received by
consumers and the press when it&#39;s finally released I guess. Me, I still
don&#39;t have any problem running XP; works beautifully in VirtualBox ;).<=
br>
<br>
-Joe<br>
</font><br>
James Finstrom wrote:
<blockquote type=3D"cite">I like to imagine it is because I am important or=
 that its
because I went to church with many Microsoft cube gnomes when I lived
in Washington but none of these things are true simply because I am on
a Microsoft Spam list I got an invitation and license to download and
play with Windows 7 beta. So let me share the expierience and overview
so far I like things with the word free even if it is only as in beer
and only for a short time, Anyhow with fear and the smell of danger
that acompanies all things that say Microsoft and Beta in the same
typography I clicked the shiny banner answered a few questions and got
a key + link.&nbsp; the minimum requirements say 1Gig ram and 128M video&nb=
sp;
and blah blah something something okay whatever click.... Anyhow the
download comes up says this could take several days depending on your
provider and the download size is...... 2.44 GIG holy redhat batman I
need to go buy a dvd to burn this down to, well so much for free.
Anyhow it is chewing up some bandwith that can be better allocated but
I am going to grab it if for nothing else just to see if <a href=3D"http://=
xkcd.com/528/" target=3D"_blank">http://xkcd.com/528/</a>&nbsp;
is true...<br>
  <br>
  <br clear=3D"all">
James Finstrom<br>
Rhino Equipment Corp.<br>
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