I have been using win7x64 for a few months, and I would say my initial reaction to win7 was very positive, but as I have had more experience with it I am running into a bunch more problems.
I jumped the gun a little bit and maybe upgraded too many of our computers...approx 40% of them. I now have had problems with 4 or 5 critical apps, and I have also had driver issues with 7.
I bought a preconfigged dell precision T3500 for our cad designer. It's Win7prox32 dual core xeon, 4gb ram, nvidea quadro fx4800, and I had a ton of problems. I installed 2 cad programs Mastercam and Solidworks BOTH of them have a CRAPTON of issues. Anytime you dynamically draw a line or a rectangle or something that you dynamically size that has snap lines to guide you....the lines don't show up. All the problems I have had were small enough to barely notice as the tech, but large enough to make it really suck for the person running the apps. It looked super nice to me after install, but the user showed me all the issues and there were a bunch.
I think "no problem, I'll use the vm and just install them in XP mode" HAHAHHAHAA it's no new cool xp mode ..it's just a straight up virtual which means NO 3D accelerated graphics. I was pretty bummed with a $1500 video card, but I go into the device manager think that it is supposed to be seeing the actual hardware, but nope it was just like running xp in virtual pc 2005 the display adapter is a virtual S3trio or some crap. (Don't use their crappy ass xp mode though I you use Sun Virtual box you can use 3d acceleration and alot 128MB to the graphics....not perfect but it did work in my case)
I did some research on it an saw that nvidia did in fact have newer drivers so I dl'ed them, and uninstalled the current ones. I go to install the drivers and "There is no drivers to support your HW" ????? For the life of me I couldn't get it working right and ended up restoring.
My rating on windows 7 is that it can't do 1/2 of what Ubuntu 9.10 can do for free. I want to like MS because it seems to be that it owns the end user world, but it really sucks, and they are scamming us pretty badly. Every day I can feel myself becoming more and more a linux supporter. At least that works right , and if it doesn't I can fix it because error logs give a REAL error not "You have experienced an unexpected error and windows saved you".
MAKE SURE YOU TEST YOUR STUFF BEFORE YOU SWITCH OVER BECAUSE WINDOWS 7 HAS A LOT MORE PROBLEMS THAN WHAT THE HYPE SAYS.
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