Sam
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... is much better than XP and Vista - fact.
Loving the Aero peek thing on the taskbar, great for the million and one apps I have open on a daily basis! 
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LukeS
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Im getting this soon, how much you pay for it?
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Dom
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Aye, i did Vista but i thought it was absolute bollocks and slow as hell and ended up going to XP64. Recently changed to 7 x64 and i'm generally impressed - would say performance is just as good as XP and so far, i haven't had too many problems (apart from activation, although you need to activate prior to installing updates etc).
LukeS - Borrowing it on a very long term basis 
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John
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7 is good, just about exactly the same as vista for me though.
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pow
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I like it veryyyy much 
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dannymccann
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I bought it from Tesco for £41, Ive decided to finally buy an OS because its not stupidly priced, fuck paying over £100 for it! Not even tried 7 but from what ive heard it owns Vista
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LukeS
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I can get the premium for £25, is that a good deal?
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dannymccann
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£25 as a full version, not just some upgrade crap?
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Dom
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Originally posted by LukeS
I can get the premium for £25, is that a good deal?
not when you can get ultimate for free no, but as long as it isn't an upgrade then yeah that's a pretty good deal  Although MS can feck off if they think 7 ultimate is worth £160 quid though 
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John
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7 is really cheap in the UK for some reason.
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LukeS
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Originally posted by Dom
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Originally posted by LukeS
I can get the premium for £25, is that a good deal?
not when you can get ultimate for free no, but as long as it isn't an upgrade then yeah that's a pretty good deal Although MS can feck off if they think 7 ultimate is worth £160 quid though
How can you get it for free?
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Dom
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Originally posted by LukeS
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Originally posted by Dom
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Originally posted by LukeS
I can get the premium for £25, is that a good deal?
not when you can get ultimate for free no, but as long as it isn't an upgrade then yeah that's a pretty good deal Although MS can feck off if they think 7 ultimate is worth £160 quid though
How can you get it for free?
the 'special' shops, download burn on DVD, install, activate.....jobs a good'en
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LukeS
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Got any links?
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jamied
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i got the oem 64bit version last week from the special shop and its been spot on, runs a lot faster on my main pc and even on my netbook. boot time is literally 10 to 15 seconds faster and loads of nice little features
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PaulW
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Installed 7 Pro in a VM the other day... (MSDN is useful for something)
I hate it, its gash...
This new interface is just a rip of KDE3, which in itself was fucking dire...
It's just as annoying and as gay as Vista...
And what was all this bollocks in the news about them not installing IE by default, and giving users a choice?? Nice to see they lied about that one too and bunged IE in there by default as per fucking usual...
I'll stick with XP running inside a VM thanks, bollocks am I running this tripe for any elongated period of time...
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kz
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I love Windows 7, been using since alpha stage
But I hate Aero peak! Really gets in the way imo, do you know if there's a way of turning it off!?
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Bart
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the only annoying thing is, I always try to open a new IE window from the taskbar and it just doesnt work 
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Chrissy
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quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
Installed 7 Pro in a VM the other day... (MSDN is useful for something)
I hate it, its gash...
This new interface is just a rip of KDE3, which in itself was fucking dire...
It's just as annoying and as gay as Vista...
And what was all this bollocks in the news about them not installing IE by default, and giving users a choice?? Nice to see they lied about that one too and bunged IE in there by default as per fucking usual...
I'll stick with XP running inside a VM thanks, bollocks am I running this tripe for any elongated period of time...
It's not exactly hard to open up IE once and download chrome/firefox/opera/whatever the fuck you'd prefer. Then never use IE again.
>>>> Chris <<<<
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Sam
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Probably the non EU version you lot have used.
The 'upgrade' (which is technically a FULL version because for some reason Microsoft aren't selling 'upgrades' in the EU, to do with the EU vs Microsoft suit I guess) is quite cheap for a Microsoft OS, however this is going to be a limited price and will go up next year IIRC.
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James_DT
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Microsoft ditched the whole 'E' version anyway.
You can use IE to download a different browser, and then unlike previous versions of Windows, you can uninstall it properly.
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pow
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Gunna get me a copy for my Mini 9 on student discount. My sister is running it on a 3 year old £400 acer laptop (the RC), runs like a dream, quicker than Vista EVER did, Kirsty has the RC on her laptop and it makes far better use of the screen space. I have the RC on my Mini 9 but I only have an 8GB SSD at the moment and I actually ran out of space!
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moka
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Originally posted by PaulW
And what was all this bollocks in the news about them not installing IE by default, and giving users a choice?? Nice to see they lied about that one too and bunged IE in there by default as per fucking usual...
How would a general user be able to get hold of firefox or chrome without a browser installed in the first place? That would of been a bit of an irish move by microsoft if it actually happened.
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dannymccann
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Apparently Notepad (or Wordpad) has built in browser functionality?
And you would have the Chrome or Firefox exe stored on a USB stick otherwise
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MJFF88
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I got it free, it was on my brothers uni download thing 
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noshua
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Originally posted by moka
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Originally posted by PaulW
And what was all this bollocks in the news about them not installing IE by default, and giving users a choice?? Nice to see they lied about that one too and bunged IE in there by default as per fucking usual...
How would a general user be able to get hold of firefox or chrome without a browser installed in the first place? That would of been a bit of an irish move by microsoft if it actually happened.
When you try go on the Internet, there's an option to choose from a series of browsers, or choose to install your own
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