Windows 7 will just work: Microsoft

Tony23 (User):

As a new linux user, this all seems a bit funny, from the sidelines. I can't help but think that this stampede is really just confected marketing. Unless they drop the price to $50 for an upgrade, I'll just keep stampeding in the other direction and pocket the savings.

Still let's hope they have nailed it this time. A solid windows OS is good news for computing, because it's what we end up having to use most of the time.

WarrenB (New user):

I now use Ubuntu 9.04 in preference to Vista for 90 percent of my computing time because it is so much faster and i can do most things better and faster on it. I do have windows 7 RC on my laptop. and it is in the Ubuntu class for speed and ease of use - it is a much better OS to use than Vista and has impressed me with the way it looks after the user to solve any problems that come up. I will be happy to dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu 9.10 in October.

Raindog (Senior Forumologist):

For Windows to just work would require a complete reversal of Microsoft's policy of deliberately making their software not work with older version and other operating systems.

Sorry MS but we'll believe it when we see it. And nobody is holding their breath waiting.

AnthonyBrisbane (User):

I'm guessing businesses will still avoid Windows 7. With the very strange decision to make volume license users needing to activate their OS, it will make substantially more work. Where I work they have approximately 3000 PCs (1500 of them laptops which are taken home each day by the staff) Yes you can make them activate automatically in the unattended install, but it doesn't always work (as our tests with Vista have shown), and even when it does just like the home edition it sometimes decides to unactivate for no reason and needs to do it again. This will take a lot of time for our staff. I have a friend who's the Information System Director of a company that has implemented Vista to their 178 computers - the activation causes nothing but trouble. We'll be sticking with XP (even though we can get Windows 7 at no cost, with our agreement with Microsoft). Microsoft says activation is to protect the consumer, so if that's true then why not make it optional?(of course everyone knows it's not true). If people want to they can pirate Vista now and use it without issue. Activation only hurts legitimate customers.