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Re: Windows 7 Needs to Be the Netbook of Operating Systems

Max Zamorsky — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:53:08 -0000

hyperlinks?! last try

http://max.zamorsky.name/20...
motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pcwindows7-on-a-motion-
computing-le1600-tablet-pc/

Re: Windows 7 Needs to Be the Netbook of Operating Systems

Max Zamorsky — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:48:57 -0000

the clickable link:

Windows 7 on a Motion LE1600

Re: Windows 7 Needs to Be the Netbook of Operating Systems

Max Zamorsky — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:45:06 -0000

I have installed Windows 7 on my older Tablet PC (Motion
LE1600). Quite promising - if Microsoft keeps up that kind
of work.
Read more on my blog:
http://
max.zamorsky.name/2009/01/13/windows7-auf-einem-motion-
computing-le1600-tablet-pcwindows7-on-a-motion-computing-
le1600-tablet-pc/

Re: Windows 7 Needs to Be the Netbook of Operating Systems

Ade — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:41:03 -0000

To some extent the speculation is over. I got the beta up and running on my NC10 yesterday. Thereâ€™s details of how to get drivers for the LAN ethernet controller and some other devices that the Windows 7 beta doesnâ€™t configure quite right out of the box.

http://www.ademiller.com/bl...

So far itâ€™s been working out great. All the nice features of Vista without the overhead. Iâ€™m pretty much expecting to ditch XP for Windows 7 on my netbook from now on.

Ade

Re: Windows 7 Needs to Be the Netbook of Operating Systems

WillyWonka — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:24:09 -0000

Since the beta is out some people installed it already. :D Some videos : http://comparenetbooks.org/...

Re: Windows 7 Needs to Be the Netbook of Operating Systems

Vatroslav Mihalj — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:30:24 -0000

5-10 years ago windows were spit on because they were "naked": the installation came with bare OS and a few apps, so critics (PC magazine journalists) whined about lack of office applications, zip utility or (user-friendly) advanced multimedia player etc. which you needed to get separately. They pointed out at Linux distributions as the opposite example, because they would come with several (mostly unfinished) apps for each purpose one could imagine.
Now, after Windows have incorporated most of it into OS, following what users whiched for, they are "bloated" and need to be "bare bones" - just the opposite of what "everyone" wanted! Is this a joke or what?

Re: Windows 7 Needs to Be the Netbook of Operating Systems

Skateout — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:58:28 -0000

I agree with Bart, if someone says Vista sucks, then you can't use a computer, you have no idea about that OS.
Come on man, I'm using this OS since it's first version, RC or what, don't care. Well that was slow, but then it came the first official version, which was taken into the stores, now that was good, it had some peoblems, crashes, and so on, but hey, nothing is perfect. MS solved the problem, not all of course, but they are working on it. If you can't calibrate your system, your OS for yourself as you need it, then don't say that it sucks. They didn't made this OS for you, they made it for everybody, so you just take yourself, and personalize it for yourself. That's it, nothing more is needed. Personnaly I am using the sidebar, and it is not useless at all, you just have to find something for it which you can use for your advance. And I believe that MS made something really new with this Win 7, so just chill and wait for it, after 2 month of use you can make an opinion about it.

Re: Windows 7 Needs to Be the Netbook of Operating Systems

James McAllister — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:42:27 -0000

Go Linux! We need to work more collectively in improving Linux. Microsoft really isn't the future: other than in the 70s and early 80s, it never has been, and it's time we finally stopped it hindering our future.

Re: Windows 7 Needs to Be the Netbook of Operating Systems

Pax — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:45:06 -0000

Given Microsoft's history, all this talk about a lean and mean OS coming in the form of Windows 7 is just that... talk. Hopes, speculation and whatever else you want to apply to this means nothing where Microsoft is concerned. They lost the right a long time ago to be taken seriously.

For all we know, the netbook version might be another embedded OS unable (because of standard Microsoft restrictions) to run on anything else.

I predict netbook versions of the OS and Desktop versions of the OS - each pushing the limits of the hardware. I base this on too many years of watching MS in action and disappointing everyone. If you want to invest in portable computing, look elsewhere. From a NY Times article...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
"This **suggests** that the new version of the program will require far fewer resources than its predecessor, although Mr. Sinofsky **declined** to make specific performance promises."

I'll wait for *official* announcements from Microsoft coupled with whatever restrictions they need to place on yet another series of OS upgrades...

Re: Windows 7 Needs to Be the Netbook of Operating Systems

Diamonds — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:08:26 -0000

I hate it when Microsoft does this, they haven't perfected one OS now their creating a new OS. Evil

Re: Windows 7 Needs to Be the Netbook of Operating Systems

Bart — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:58:22 -0000

I've been running Vista for the past six month and I'm very happy with it. The user interface is much better than Windows XP and there are almost no crashes. I have to agree that the first months Vista wasn't very stable, but after some fixes things are running very smoothly. Starting up and shutting down is slow, that's true (that's why I only hibernate), but for the rest it works very fast on a new laptop. As for the features, there are no world shocking new features in Vista (well, there are but nobody uses them) and de sidebar... I turned it off because it took too much memory and was locking things up. The sidebar was actually the only thing that caused instability but that might be because of bad programmed gadgets. I'm not missing the sidebar at all, I can have the same gadgets in my browser (Netvibes) so why put them on your desktop? Side note: I'm a power user (web developer) using my laptop at least 10 hours a day running mainly graphical software (Adobe Suite). I could connect my mobile phone, camera, external hard disk, wireless mouse etc. without any problems. The only program I could not run was Pegasus Mail, but once I dragged it to the c:\ folder it worked without any problems. Summarized: Vista improved a lot latest months and everyone who says it sucks is clearly not using it.

Re: Windows 7 Needs to Be the Netbook of Operating Systems

Web News — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:18:28 -0000

WinFS WinFS WinFS WinFS WinFS WinFS WinFS WinFS WinFS WinFS WinFS WinFS WinFS WinFS WinFS WinFS?

Where's WinFS?

What I want is a PETITION for powercalc (from win xp) to be in Win 7, if anyone wanna create one... :-)

Re: Windows 7 Needs to Be the Netbook of Operating Systems

Imran Hussain — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:36:17 -0000

Huh? Speak for yourself dude! A LOT of people use the sidebar!! A lot more than you would ever know in your entire life. And UAC has kept people safe, although I agree it has been annoying. It wasn't a mistake. If you don't like Windows 7 or hate Vista so ridiculously by labeling it a mistake (heck, why don't you make an OS urself smarty pants?? ), don't write about it then.