Re: OT: Windows 7 Beta

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:05:39 +0000, tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tim Gowen)
wrote:

I do a fresh install of Windows 7 Beta and immediately try and install a
database client for an app that's critical to the OS's survival at work.
It won't install, claiming not to be able to see the exe file in the
network share location that I've mapped.

I can get into it by going directly to said share and running.

Not a major problem as it's a Beta and there must be a solution but this
app has been running since Windows 95 and it runs on Vista.

So I try and install an HP network printer without using the HP Network
Printer wizard. It can't see it using an IP address or a hostname.
Luckily the HP wizard tries to find it and it prints the test *** from
that, but it seems that a lot of printer properties have moved along
with the Print Test Page.

And all in all these are niggles and the overall performance is pretty
much the same as with Windows Vista. But the absence of anything
compelling is what got to me. Everything looks a little bit newer and
fancy, but where's all my stuff? How do I do what I used to do?

It makes me love my Mac even more. So there's that.

Me too (it's running XP) and it looks like I need W7 as much as I need
Vista. When it was running OSX I had exactly the same sorts of niggles
you mention above (and I don't think it is a beta?). ;-)

T i m
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