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FYI: The first one is at talkingaboutwindows.com/teaser.aspx

Ok, I thought it was a little blah at first but those kids are growing on me now - kind of like Seinfeld and Gates after their second commercial.

I just noticed that the title of the video is "Up All Night - talking About Windows Viral Video #2". Can you actually proclaim that a video is viral before it's actually gone viral?

I installed Windows 7 in a VMware VDI today, gave it 1CPU and 1gig of RAM.  So far I am quite surprised.  I am using classic mode and "adjust for best performance" to get the snappiest possible GUI.  Also I have basically nothing installed but RSAT.  That said not to shabby, and as fast as XP so far.  Sitting idle its only using 302megs of RAM and only 38 processes.

Tomorrow I will install, SAV, Office 2007 SP2, Java, Adobe (Flash, Air, Reader), SCCM client, ISA client, silverlight and throw it in a OU so it can get hammered by GPO's.  If it still runs good then I think 7 may have a home at my company this time next year.

My kids are cuter. The soon to be 9 yr old just created a pamphlet for  'Super World' using Office 2007. The twins just created a mini book about their Webkinz. Right now, all three kids are 8 yrs old. The oldest will be nine next month [Irish triplets].

Those commercials are awesome!

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My oldest 8 yr old just made birthday cards for the twins using Office. Where Stevie B? He's gotta see my kids. The oldest actually has taken two computer club course in 3rd grade, with the latest in digital photography.

The teacher asked her to tell me to put a smaller SD card in her camera as it took a while for the nearly full 8GB card to upload! Yeah right, me buying small cards would be like me down grading my CPU! It'll never happen.

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Slim [or any one], do you compare Vista's speed to Win 7 on the same computer? If so, was 7 any faster?

Thanks,

Doc

DRWAM, I can confirm that windows 7 definitely runs faster on my laptop, and by a noticeable margin.

Performance so far is stellar.

What? Ray Ozzie is in a band?

No, but it wouldn't be the first softie to do so. :P

funny video :)

I'm hoping they're not going to broadcast these as part of their new add campaign though, it would scare people away!

OK, let's not get too far off topic here, please.

Paul

Thanks Gorath.

DRWAM I can only compare running XP, Vista and 7 on a ESX server/VDI with 1 CPU and 1gig of RAM.  That is what the new VDI users get with XP.  In fact most existing XP VM's have 512meg.

Anyhow 7, so far, runs as fast as XP.  I say so far because I have not installed applications that the corp VDI build has.  I am hopeful, but as most know, the fastest Windows ever gets is right after a clean install with no applications.

Vista is simply not usable with 1 CPU and 1gig of RAM in a VDI session.  We got "OK" performance after SP1 with 2 CPU's and 2gigs of RAM, but that was not going to fly in our VDI deployment when we tested it last year.

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I've been giving 7 a good spin over the weekend (in addition to palying with the beta when that was released) and I have to say I'm very impressed. To say this is better than Vista in every department would be an understatement.

I've just finished rolling out Vista and Server 2008 to my organisation and it's been very sucessful but 7 is something else. From what I've seen so far I reckon we'll be entirely 7 at the client end in 12 months.

It just works, and it works fast!

@slimshadey

I've installed everthing my organisation uses and so far 7 is running as fast as it did when installed fresh.

They seem to have finally fixed file copying over the network (which was my biggest gripe with Vista). Copying large files from my laptop to my media centre was always a problem, and often failed - not anymore!

Is there ANY way to download Silverlight-streamed videos (that first video)? That's the only thing I don't like about Silverlight.

Thanks Slim. I've got the upgrade bug badly this time.

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