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vjay
Jan 20, 2009 5:13 PM
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Most of the applications I've so far installed on W7 worked fine with no glitches and none of them were built for it so I guess it's not so much of a jump to slap a made for Windows 7 sticker on products. ;)
Comment made about the PC Authority article:
AVG, Norton, Kaspersky ready for possible Windows 7 rush ?
Kaspersky the latest major anti-virus brand to release software compatible with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system.
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malai5
Jan 20, 2009 7:51 PM
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I am currently using AVG Free Anti Virus with Windows 7 Beta and have no problems what so ever.
I have also initially used a trial version of Avast Anti Virus with Windows 7 Beta and had no problems with that as well.
Does that mean that Windows 7 Beta is just Vista in "Sheeps Clothing"???
Malai5
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PaytonLiu
Jan 27, 2009 4:50 PM
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To malai5, somehow you can say that Win7 is "Sheeps Clothing". I checked the system version that win7 is NT6.1.(something).7000 and WinVista is NT6.0. Therefore, Win7 is just an improvement, but much much much better than Vista...
I use my 3 years old laptop to run Win7. AVG free v8 works well, no errors or failures. However, video driver that provided by Microsoft Updates is unstable(built-in Intel GMA 900). Waiting for more updates... |
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malai5
Jan 29, 2009 8:53 PM
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So, you are saying that Windows 7 is built on the same base as Windows NT/XP and of course, Vista.
Well, that is not news, but I guess the vista "experiment", was all about trying too hard to be "New" and "Different" but all the while just adding bulk to the operating system.
Windows 7, although not a new base, is however a "thin" version of Vista and in that sense is more accessable to more machines and that means more sales for Microsoft.
Vista, although now a good operating system is still really for the latest hardware and THAT limits it's marketability and consequently profits.
Microsoft had to reinvent itself with Windows 7, or risk being over run by Linux and Mac OSX.
The flexibility shown by Windows 7 as to hardware that early Vista didn't address was sorely needed just to get back to square one, but a lot of ground has been lost that will never be regained.
Cheers
Malai5 |
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Lost-Benji
Feb 3, 2009 7:45 AM
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Kaspersky and BitDefender both work sweet under Win7.
Win7 is what Vista should have been, but without so much bloat. |
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stingray
Jul 1, 2009 12:01 PM
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I have just downloaded & installed Win 7 RC build 7100 - when I installed Norton Internet Security 2009 I continued to get error messages stating that it was NOT compatible with Windows 7 !!!
Contacted Norton - best they could do was tell me there would be a version released in September sometime!
So I am now looking at the competitors ! |
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Hobo_Joe
Jul 1, 2009 12:23 PM
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That's a shame!
Over a month ago when I installed Kaspersky A/V on Windows 7, windows 7 was able to direct me to a page on Kaspersky's website that had a special Windows 7 beta version of the product.
I'm not sure if it was free or not. It's possible that it only let me download it without trouble because it detected a valid version of Kaspersky installed.
Whatever the case, I was surprised and stoked! |