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john (16th July 2009)
I have until november to get mine rolled out all together (for the PCs atleast) and with the laptops I will get that update as soon as toshiba allow.
Good luck with that then
Personally I will wait for SP1 as with all Microsoft products. I remember having debates on here with people who swore blind Vista was the best thing since sliced bread when it was released.
Then the SP1 update came out that fixed the slow file copies and some of the UAC issues that I had on my personal machine, can't imagine the pain it would have caused on a site wide install of 400 computers!
IMO the RTM is SP1 as crazy as it sounds.Originally Posted by ittech
Good luck with that then
Personally I will wait for SP1 as with all Microsoft products. I remember having debates on here with people who swore blind Vista was the best thing since sliced bread when it was released.
Then the SP1 update came out that fixed the slow file copies and some of the UAC issues that I had on my personal machine, can't imagine the pain it would have caused on a site wide install of 400 computers!
The thing has been stable as a rock since the early beta days, so the RTMs etc have just been bug hunters mainly
I would have to agree with the above statement! Windows 7 RC is as stable as XP SP2 in my opinion. I have yet to find fault, even all drivers work perfectly!
Look at Windows 7 as Vista SP3 with GUI enhancements. I've run the Windows 7 Beta and RCs since they came out on my Dell M1330 laptop and haven't any issues at all. In essence, Windows 7 is what Vista should of been. We know Microsoft like to release a "dud", but I refuse to Vista has been a total disaster (such as Windows ME - whoever said Windows 98 SE was a dud needs to go back to it). We've been running it from day one here at our school and with a few minor issues (such as offline files - almost caused a huge disaster in lots of files disappearing off the server), I've been happy with it.Good luck with that then
Personally I will wait for SP1 as with all Microsoft products. I remember having debates on here with people who swore blind Vista was the best thing since sliced bread when it was released.
Then the SP1 update came out that fixed the slow file copies and some of the UAC issues that I had on my personal machine, can't imagine the pain it would have caused on a site wide install of 400 computers!
I don't think we'll be steaming into Windows 7 like we did last time with Vista. However, anyone who learn't Vista's deployment, licensing etc will have a step ahead of everyone else.
I can try the RC from Technet but i don't want the hassle of the RTM coming out soon and needing to reinstall to try it. I really want to try this out now after reading all the positive comments!
As said above Win7 is Vista SP3 in a way it's the same kernel, they've just spent ages improving and adding a few features but nothing that should affect core stability. I've been running variouse versions at home and on my work PC and it's probably the best MS OS i've used, right up there with 2003 server.
You wont, it would just be an upgrade (like a service pack) and then you are good to go!
I would recommend against upgrading from a Beta or RC version to an RTM release purely for stability reasons...
I thought you couldn't actually do that anyway from what I'd read about it
I managed to upgrade from Beta to RC without an issue, and MS said on the technet forums that it wont be a problem to go from either Beta / RC and upgrade to RTM, I will dig up the thread
On the windows 7 blog they said it's 'possible' to go from RC to RTM but MS won't support it.
john (16th July 2009)
The only way I have heard of - is by copying the DVD to hard disk and to then edit the build version number in a text file somewhere .. (eg if RTM = 7600 and RC is 7100, then you need to change the build number to something between 7000 and 7100)
I posted a link in another thread somewhere...
Slashdot Technology Story | Windows 7 Clean Install Only In Europe
Due to the non-ie version thats in europe. You wont be able to upgrade.
Due to the non-ie version thats in europe. You wont be able to upgrade
Yeh but the bonus is that when you buy an upgrade version you actually get the FULL product in europe. As I always clean install i'll take that anyday
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