Anyone knows what the official Malaysian prices of W7 will be? When will it be officially available. Where to buy a genuine version instead of a fake?..

The general global retail launch date is 22 October

Sale of retail / OEM version should be started after that. You can buy it in most of the computer shop in Lowyat/Digital Mall, or get from Software Exchange

hi,i have window 7 ultimate x64 build rc . after official release of window 7,do i need to buy window 7 or my previous window 7 still can continue use ? any different with current window 7 and official release window 7?

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do i need to buy window 7

unless u can get it for free.


any different with current window 7 and official release window 7?

not much different maybe some small patch needed to install due to bugs

This post has been edited by fulat: Oct 7 2009, 05:39 PM

ok.tq.

Well you can still continue to use till somewhere around March nxt year (once you have made up your mind that is) (Note : I am not sure about the date , do check Microsofts site or your e-mail from Microsoft. It tells you when the product expires). Once it has expired , it will shut down for every 2 hours or so , randomly.

Its between day and night. One is meant for testing purpose and the other one is meant for production use. You dont get patches , fixes , etc to be delivered for RC

ic.tq.i can't wait to have official window 7

There's lots of changes, although not all are significant. Windows 7 RC had it own separate updates (on Windows Update) from Windows 7 RTM (final) updates.

It's been 3 days since I shifted from Vista to Win7. So here's my view on it. I have not explored every corner of it. Infact, I did not take any effort to find out the difference. What I'm doing is to experience it from a regular user's point of view. I did not customize the layout into someting similar to Vista or XP just to get a typical Win7 feel.

Installation
It's almost the same as Vista where you get a nice full GUI installation rather than the blue background from XP's first few steps. I won't say it's quick. Takes around 45 minutes including all the reboot and info gathering. Before this, I have 3 partitions on my hard disk. The first contains the old Vista OS while the other 2 contains my data. All I need is to clear up my OS partition and leave my data partition untouched. Win7 Ultimate consumes around the same amount needed in Vista. Roughly 15GB including the recovery files.

First use
My first impression is how simple it looks. I'm not saying that it looks better than Vista. It's like comparing a Japanese Street Racer with an American Muscle. It all depends which fetish you are into. From a certain angle, it sometimes looks girly. Maybe it's the colour scheme, maybe it's the textless taskbar. Before this, I have no problems with Vista's resource consumption. So, as expected, Win7 Ultimate runs smoothly. Incase you want to know, it's an Intel Dual Core with 3GB RAM. Tried Vista Home Basic, smooth, Vista Ultimate smooth, Win7 Ultimate, smooth. Finding the hardware drivers left me speechless. During the Vista days, I had to download over 100MB from the HP website for my drivers. For Win7, I started off with some unknown devices in the device manager. But at least the video and sound is already present. During first boot, the video resolution can already go up to 1280x800 without the proper drivers (in oppose to Vista's 640x480). I did an update and Win7 automatically registers all the unknown devices - something which I've never achieve before in other Windows version.

Media experience
The new Windows Media player looks impressive. Like I've mentioned before - simple. By default, it feels like you are looking at an iPod Touch. No unwanted menus, no clutter, no ugly toolbars. Plain simple rectangular screen. I was rather impressed when I managed to play AVI files without needing to install any 3rd party codecs, something which the first Vista cannot do. All my mp3 files were previously managed by iTunes. The new Media Player is able to extract the file info (eg: artwork) done via iTunes. I do have a major problem when it comes to media. As I'm a heavy Windows Movie Makers user, Win7 made a wrong sway. I'm ok with that the new Movie Maker is now part of Windows Live. So what on earth is Windows Live? In short, these are the applications not included in the initial installation (eg: Windows Mail, Windows Messenger, Windows Movie Maker). You can download it for free. No problem with that. Downloaded both Messenger and Movie maker at around 140MB. No problem with that too. Messenger works perfectly (it should!). But when I switched on the new Movie Maker, my impression was 'what?'. Before this, Movie Maker is like the most basic of all video editing software. Now, they made even more 'basicer' (if that's even a word). There's no way I can make cool YouTube videos with this junk. It's only useful if you want to create a video from your family Christmas vacation and distribute them to your relatives. Well, there is a workaround. Microsoft allows you to download and install Movie maker version 2. A slapback from Vista's version 6 but better than nothing.

Vista's curse
Unlike others, I don't have a hatred towards Vista. The annoying 'security popups' does annoy once in a while but I can live with it. Win7 does retain the 'warnings' but less. The flickering still exist when applications which are not compatible with the graphic scheme tries to adjust itself. Again, it's there but less. My only 2 real problem with Vista is the 3G modem dialer and Louts Dominos plugin. Since these 2 are like 3rd party stuff, it failed to run. The same problem occurs on Win7.

Improvements
Hibernation is back! Anyway, Vista's standby draws less battery compared to WinXP. I have not tried Win7's standby since hibernation is there. I normally prefer Vista's built-in wifi manager compared to the ones by manufacturers. Simple and fast. Win7 made it even more simpler. The new Windows menu bar is an eye candy but a nemesis for those who wish to fast swap between windows. There are many times when it took me a few thoughts before I can change to another application window.There are many times when an inactive window suddenly pops infront. And there's certainly times when by background wallpaper appeared infront of me. Not good if you have an Avril Lavigne wallpaper in your office.

The Bing
I notice there were several occassions where Microsoft tried to trick users into setting Bing as the default search engine. It's like having many 'click next next next' screen but they've already have the word 'Bing as default search engine' pre-ticked for you.

so, cool review Mr. pkh
Now i wondering whether to go out there, buy new retail win7 or continue using RC version until March'09.
Does it make any differences for regular end-user?

Current price is RM375 for home premium, it is getting lil' cheaper next year?

i just got window 7 professional at rm490..... not sure if the shop overprice it or not....

shift from xp to window 7.... the first bump for me is getting online.... how to online using window 7....T_T... been trying it out for 1 hours only know that nothing to be set.... just create some network connection and it will works...

still have plenty to check out on window 7.... anywhere i can find customize theme?

the bing deafult search can be replace by any other search engine u prefer. it can be customise. dont worry.

for windows media experience. the windows media center is pretty useful as an all in one media center. the media center able to play any media as u like if you pre-install it with other player. download the free real alternative player and your media center will be able to control and play RMVB media files.

However, it doesn't support playing MKV files although I have all required codecs. Oh, rugi la my HD trailers...

oh... i dont have MKV files to play tho. RMVB, MOV, AVI WMV is good enough for me. kekekek... but overall the media center is impressive for me to be my all entertainment player.

Yeah, all other video files plays beautifully and I used WMC to play my media files 90% of the times

Hi, just jump into window 7. Find it really great. For me, it is smoother than Vista. Just a little bit problem with driver but really easy to find one even the window update update my driver, very seldom from vista. Need to look around more for the latest function.

i just don't like the system cooling policy thing. it makes my pc lag when i'm playing game..this prob does not appear in vista..

maybe u can try the high performance setting.

it's still the same brah...no difference..i duno wat's wrong wif it..

I dun know if u guys got the same problem. I watch movies sometimes with subtitle. The problem is not big. But why cant I drag .srt file to media player to load the subtitle?. Do anyone has the same problem?.