Jan 27, 2009

A week with Windows 7

The day windows 7 Beta was made publicly available I had to give it a go. I set it up in a VM to take a look around and it was not too dissimilar to Vista I spent little time really testing performance or compatibility. From earlier posts I have been thinking about moving to Vista 64 to take full advantage of my hardware ( C2D, 4g ram ) and last weekend I decided to back up my full dev environment, eclipse projects, make sure all my code was in SVN and reformat. Rather then use Vista 64 I decided to go for 64bit Windows 7.
And I love it. So far everything has worked without issue including:
IIS7
Coldfusion 8 ( 64bit )
Flexbuilder 3.2
Flash and the Flash debug players
SQL Server Enterprise manager
Smart svn
Office 2k7 suite
Skype
All my Air apps ( can't go one without Twitter )
Creative suit 4
Firefox
Core FTP
Dropbox
VMware Workstation
VLC
Putty
My 1 game ( Red Alert 3 )
Closing the lid of the laptop and resuming the session
My printer!!
and my custom Air apps.

Its fast, looks good and stable. The new task bar is great and it see's all my ram. When its fully released I will get a real key and throw Vista in the scrap heap.

BTW I also use a macbook and my desktop runs Debian etch so while I use MS for work I am familiar with Osx and *nix its just that at work Windows suits my needs.

5 comments:

  1. Lucky you, Windows 7 crashes when I try to play Freecell.
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  2. I wonder if having a Dell helped me. All the drivers were automatically installed including the nVidia drivers. I just tried Freecell then ( saving everything that was open ) and it worked :)
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  3. CF8 64bit on Win?
    Is your CF Enterprise edition?
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  4. Yes CF8 64Bit Developer edition. In CFAdmin OS listed as Windows Vista though.
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  5. Sweet! I wanna give it a try
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