Which version of Windows 7?

[LiveOrDie]

Windows 8

 

[IggSter]

With regard to Win 7 - Pro was my choice (purely for Active directory support).

One thing to have a look for - educational copies (Software4student in the UK for example)

If you have any family in full or part time education (this can even be a professional training course) you can pay as little at £40 (GBP) for a Win 7 pro upgrade (you can do a fresh install with a few registry changes)

 

[Stephen.]

Windows 7 Ultimate x64, get it. Is what I'm running,.. no complains. i went with that coz i only by this things once every new release.

Except for NT, ME & 2000 and possibly i will skip windows 8, i don't like the metro shit, metro only good for tablets and touch screens

Come from Windows 98 straight to XP, then Vista Ultimate x64 and now 7 Ultimate x64

 

[newtekie1]

That would make the mother of all differences to me! It's literally make or break, basically.

I haven't heard this anywhere though and if anything the word is that you can't turn Metro off, so can you please tell me where you heard this?

I'm a Microsoft partner and it is just what I heard from my Microsoft rep, according to him they only forced Metro to be on in the consumer preview(removing the registry tweak) because too many people just disabled it in the developer preview, and Microsoft really is only concerned with feedback on Metro. So if everyone just disabled it, Microsoft doesn't get the feedback they want/need about it.

And I've been using the Consumer Preview along with Start8 to get rid of Metro and give back a "Metro style start menu" and I actually really like it. There are a few other 3rd party apps that replace metro and give back the start menu as well. There is even one that gives the old 95/98 style classic start menu, which is shit and I'd take Metro over, but it is an option...

 

[hellrazor]

So if everyone just disabled it, Microsoft doesn't get the feedback they want/need about it.

Does disabling it not count as feedback?

 

[qubit]

I'm a Microsoft partner and it is just what I heard from my Microsoft rep, according to him they only forced Metro to be on in the consumer preview(removing the registry tweak) because too many people just disabled it in the developer preview, and Microsoft really is only concerned with feedback on Metro. So if everyone just disabled it, Microsoft doesn't get the feedback they want/need about it.

And I've been using the Consumer Preview along with Start8 to get rid of Metro and give back a "Metro style start menu" and I actually really like it. There are a few other 3rd party apps that replace metro and give back the start menu as well. There is even one that gives the old 95/98 style classic start menu, which is shit and I'd take Metro over, but it is an option...

This sounds awesome, thanks NT.

I'm now actually looking forward to Windows 8 and all those under the hood improvements.

 

[newtekie1]

Does disabling it not count as feedback?

No, because they can't get information on how to improve it if no one uses it. Everyone wants to bitch about it, but no one wants to actually make suggestions on how to improve it.