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Anyone using this yet? I'm just busy downloading it now.

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Originally posted by Crowley
Anyone using this yet? I'm just busy downloading it now.
I never got an invite πŸ™

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Originally posted by huckleberryhound
I never got an invite πŸ™
Anyone can download it - just don't install it on a PC you actually might need...

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Originally posted by Crowley
Anyone using this yet? I'm just busy downloading it now.
[sarcasm]
If it's as good as Vista, I'm sure it will be a winner.
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Originally posted by Crowley
Anyone using this yet? I'm just busy downloading it now.
I am probably not as computer savy as you are. I was wondering how are you busy downloading? I thought once you hit the download thingy, it just downloaded itself?
Thank you in advance, for your help.

Looks around, damn hope I got everything speeeled right.

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Originally posted by Suzianne
[sarcasm]
If it's as good as Vista, I'm sure it will be a winner.
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Aah well, we'll see.
Just think: after ME we got XP, so Windows 7 will probably (hopefully) be a great, stable release, that will last us another 8 years...

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Originally posted by Crowley
Aah well, we'll see.
Just think: after ME we got XP, so Windows 7 will probably (hopefully) be a great, stable release, that will last us another 8 years...
I thought the industry was gearing up towards the online OS idea. I'm surprised Micro$oft didn't latch onto it a bit more.

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Originally posted by Daemon Sin
I thought the industry was gearing up towards the online OS idea. I'm surprised Micro$oft didn't latch onto it a bit more.
Not yet. Broadband has not been embraced thoroughly enough the world over for that to be economically viable.

Also, maybe M$ is waiting to see what Google will cook up?

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Did you try it? How is it?

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Originally posted by Palynka
Did you try it? How is it?
Not yet πŸ˜•

I read that W7 might corrupt MP3 files, even on network shares, so I have to backup my desktop properly before I install it on my lappy.
This might be overkill, but I haven't backed it up in 2 weeks, so I may as well do this now.

Also, I'm just checking to make sure I know how to set up the booting, so I can still boot XP and Ubuntu...

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Originally posted by Crowley
Aah well, we'll see.
Just think: after ME we got XP, so Windows 7 will probably (hopefully) be a great, stable release, that will last us another 8 years...
wasn't it you who skipped vista because you didn't want to mess things up? and now you're installing win 7 beta?? πŸ™‚

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Originally posted by wormwood
wasn't it you who skipped vista because you didn't want to mess things up? and now you're installing win 7 beta?? πŸ™‚
πŸ˜€
Not quite...

I wasn't impressed with what I saw in Vista: for a system upgrade - as in pony up the money for the shiny new 'upgrade'.

This is free, and I can install it on my lappy, which these days is relegated to my wife looking at pictures of not-really-friends on Facebook...

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Originally posted by Crowley
πŸ˜€
Not quite...

I wasn't impressed with what I saw in Vista: for a system upgrade - as in pony up the money for the shiny new 'upgrade'.

This is free, and I can install it on my lappy, which these days is relegated to my wife looking at pictures of not-really-friends on Facebook...
I guess that makes sense. I find myself less and less enthusiastic to upgrade anything every year that passes. just simply can't be bothered to tinker with everything in order to get things working...

which I guess was your reason to stay with xp as well.

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Originally posted by wormwood
I guess that makes sense. I find myself less and less enthusiastic to upgrade anything every year that passes. just simply can't be bothered to tinker with everything in order to get things working...

which I guess was your reason to stay with xp as well.
XP still runs very well on my ageing hardware. Why fix what ain't broken?
When I upgrade the HW I'll probably get Vista, but I definitely don't upgrade just for the sake of getting a shiny new desktop...

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Originally posted by Crowley
XP still runs very well on my ageing hardware. Why fix what ain't broken?
When I upgrade the HW I'll probably get Vista, but I definitely don't upgrade just for the sake of getting a shiny new desktop...
exactly.