Windows 7

[integralx2]

I just wanted to let all the aluminum macbook owners know that the latest Windows 7 beta (build 6956) runs great in boot camp. I was worried when I first installed because most of the device drivers were not recognized. I tried the drivers off the OS X install disk and they worked great. I will have to test it more but it is running very fast!!

Thanks

 

[Eric S.]

Interesting article:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3240

"I haven’t yet found a Mac or Linux user who feels tempted back to Windows based on what they’ve seen in Windows 7."

Well, here's the other side of the argument, an article extremely complimentary to Windows 7:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10140575-17.html

As a person who performs almost every computing task on a Mac and tells anyone who will listen that at this point, the average consumer should be using a Mac instead of a Windows machine because of security and usability, I'm starting to prep myself for the single moment that I thought would never come: I'll be using a Windows 7 machine as my main computer and telling anyone who will listen that, believe it or not, using the latest Microsoft operating system really is worth it.

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

But only 4 of them you can actually buy.

Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, Vista Business and Vista Ultimate. Windows 7 is expected to keep the same line up.

The other two are Starter and Enterprise. Starter is OEM only and available in 3rd world countries and Enterprise is only available to businesses with a Volume License key.

XP technically had 5 versions, XP Starter, XP Home, XP Pro, and XP Media Center Edition and XP Tablet PC edition (yup, it is a seperate version).

Microsoft took XP Media Center and XP Tablet PC edition (the feature set) and merged them with various versions of Vista.

Yes, but you when you buy XP as a standalone product, there's only two boxes I see at the store. Home and Pro. When people have XP, and go to the store to buy the upgrade, they see 4 different boxes of Vista and get confused.