Microsoft Launches Windows 7

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Today is the day, Windows 7 is officially here. How many of you have it already? What version? If not, do you plan on getting it? When?

"This is the most customer excitement we've had in a long time for a Windows release," Hall said. Microsoft is also celebrating the availability of Windows 7 with parties and by opening its first retail shop in the US city of Scottsdale, Arizona. The shop features laptops, netbooks, personal computers, Zune players, Xbox 360 videogame consoles, and mobile phones running on Microsoft software.
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ZOMG, thanks for the reminder! I have 3 copies preordered for release day delivery: 2 Professional Upgrades for the office, and 1 Home Premium for the home box. Looks like I'll be busy tonight / tomorrow! :)

I've been using the RC at home for months and it is really a better experience than Vista, even with the RC instability.
 
I did the Amazon preorder. Got the Professional Upgrade for $99. A new HD, Win 7, and a Sapphire 5870 will be waiting when I get home.:D
 
I work in a tech shop, and I'm the only one who even knew Windows 7 was being released today. And when I reminded people of that fact, they were like "oh, yea. Cool."

I'm the only one geeky enough to be excited by this where I work. And that makes me a little sad :(.
 
I have the RC...Im hoping that I'll win a free one with Newegg's sweepstakes lol.

I'll get it around Christmas, or maybe some special/lucky Black friday deal.
 
NewEgg failed me.... preordered way back when, delivery scheduled for October 23.

NewEgg FAIL.

OTOH, this marks a sort of "Anniversary" for me.... I met my wife because of "Midnight Madness" at the local CompUSA for the release of Windows 95, back on August 24, 1995 (*I met her online, but I was a hour later getting online to play the game I normally played that she was also in*). And while I have a copy of Windows 95 that was, literally, given to us 9 months or so later by my next door neighbor (who was at CompUSA with me), no, I didn't buy it myself at the time; I went for a keyboard, toolkits, HDD, and a few other goodies.
 
I have two pre-order copies of the home premium version coming from Amazon. I did the 'free shipping' option, so I probably won't see them until the end of next week.
 
I'm gonna stick with the RC I've been using for the past couple months until I can acquire a copy of Ultimate 64-bit through the government like I do all my other expensive software :). The 64-bit RC has been extremely stable and reliable so far. I have until June 1st 2010, right?
 
UK ppl have been using Win7 for a couple of days now.

To pre-empt the postal strike they shipped them early
 
I just got my daily NewEgg newsletter announcing the launch. They have Home Premium OEM at $99, Pro OEM at $139 and Ultimate OEM at $179

http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/Oct-0-2009/Win7/index-landing.html

Excellent prices. I might grab a Home Premium copy next payday. I spent a ton of money last weekend ordering me parts to build an HTPC including an nMedia case. It needs an OS. I was going to put Ubuntu and MythTV on it, but I think I'll order Win7 instead.
 
I will get excited when SP1 ships for it. MS always has problems with Beta Copies they have 1st users buy (What's selling now is Retail Beta).

Yes I know it's not called Beta.


DM
 
Two copies of windows 7 ultimate 64 bit for me and the wife delivering today from newegg. :)
 
Dataman said:
I will get excited when SP1 ships for it. MS always has problems with Beta Copies they have 1st users buy (What's selling now is Retail Beta).

Yes I know it's not called Beta.


DM
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I have to disagree, this is a very refined OS, i have been using it for a few months now, even the RC was polished very well
 
i paid $109, am getting it tomorrow 23rd. WOOHOO!! i got the home premium oem 64bit.:)
 
got 3 copies of Pro with 3 licenses each coming in for my department this morning from newegg.
 
Been test driving Home Premium for a few weeks. It's about 95% just like Vista for me, with the exception of the new taskbar implimentation.
MS shipped my "free upgrade" yesterday, so I'll finally be able to register/activate this thing.
 
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy! I love Windows 7 sooooo much. Vista was okay, but 7 is great.

Honestly I think the shortcut keys for window management (Window + left, right, up, down) are the feature I use the most. I use the shit out of it because I'm constantly switching apps at work and have dual monitors. I think that alone is probably worth $30 to me.

Windows Pro x64 on my new Core i7 rig at work
Windows Ultimate x64 RC (soon to be RTM, have key already) on the home computer
Windows Pro x32 RC (have RTM key) on laptop
Windows Pro x32 RC (have RTM key) on old work comptuer
Windows Pro x32 RTM on dad's laptop (and he LOVES it. He was still on XP!)

I guess I can stop calling it RTM now since it's just "Windows 7"
 
Doh... forgot to add. I just changed my Facebook status to "happy Windows 7 launch day (yeah, it's that good!)"
 
Amazon lists the estimated ship date for my preorder as the 26th. :(

Oh well, the RC will work for me just fine for a few more days/weeks.
 
ar09 said:
only in the surface...!
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Not entirely. I still had to turn off the annoying "are you sure you want to do this" for everything. The games/music/videos/documents interface is the same (although improved to include multiple locations) and most of the bundled applications aren't much different from their Vista counterparts.
I find the games explorer to be worse because you can't configure it without some pretty complicated registry edits or hunting for shortcut locations 10 folders deep.

I've also had some stability issues with Windows Explorer randomly not responding and restarting, although I guess that's common with Vista x64, too.

My boot times and performance in games is no better than Vista either.

With all of the talk about how Win7 is the second coming of XP, I think it's a lot closer to Vista than people seem to think.
 
Dataman said:
I will get excited when SP1 ships for it. MS always has problems with Beta Copies they have 1st users buy (What's selling now is Retail Beta).

Yes I know it's not called Beta.


DM
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Been using Win 7 Ultimate (RTM version) since it was released to MSDN members. It's a solid OS. You should reconsider your thinking...
 
Running Windows 7 Ultimate on every box except servers (they're on 2008). Been running it since it went RTM to us on TechNet.
 
I'm too broke :(

Will probably get a family pack of HP for my wife, stepchild and me after taxes. Thats usually when I get to upgrade stuff :)

Unless someone wants to gift a money challenged fellow geek :D
 
Technet subscription FTW. Been using the RTM and the RC fir quite a while now. I keep looking around going "What is all this hype about? I've known about this for months."
 
I'll buy it. When I do my next build. I am not going to upgrade the OS on an old machine though. That's just dumb.
 
Currently running Ultimate RC 7100 x32 on my laptop and RTM Pro x64 on the desktop and love both machines much better than I did Vista Ultimate x64/x32... Will definitely be picking up either Pro or Ultimate RTM once I get the chance.
 
Dataman said:
I will get excited when SP1 ships for it. MS always has problems with Beta Copies they have 1st users buy (What's selling now is Retail Beta).

Yes I know it's not called Beta.


DM
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Funny thing some people think win7 is nothing more than Vista SP3, yet some others say its beta and will wait for SP1

:D
 
This is the first operating system that I felt was worthy enough to actually buy in a while. (the last for me was 2000)




disclaimer: That does not mean that I didn't legally obtain my other OSs, just didn't purchase them outright.
 
I got my free Ultimate addition for hosting a Windows launch party so I have had it installed for about 2 weeks now. I also ran all the betas and RC versions and even switched my main rig to the last RC because it was so stable until the real version came to me a couple of weeks ago. At my work, 3 of us are going to upgrade our machines and join it to our domain to see if any problems arise. My company has already decided to order new machines with it already loaded.

Gabe Shockley
Kalamazoo RESA
Network/Computer Specialist
 
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