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May 4, 2009 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

Microsoft has posted will soon post the second in a series of videos about Windows 7. It's on the Talking About Windows web site, which is a new community forum for Microsoft to interact with the IT Pro community and actively join the conversation surrounding Windows 7.  The company is especially looking to hear any opinions, answer any questions, and get some real insight from people who try the recently delivered Release Candidate (RC).

Actually, it's not up yet. But here's a copy I uploaded to MSN Video:

<br /><a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=a5865e30-5451-4273-9cdd-d42bd5480a0e" target="_new" title="Up All Night - Talking About Windows viral video #2">Video: Up All Night - Talking About Windows viral video #2</a>

Talking About Windows was previously announced on the Windows team blog. You can see the first video in the series here.

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mikegalos@msn.com
on May 4, 2009
FYI: The first one is at http://talkingaboutwindows.com/teaser.aspx
kenmcnamee
on May 4, 2009
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.
kenmcnamee
on May 4, 2009
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?
slimshadey
on May 4, 2009
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.
DRWAM
on May 4, 2009
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].
LandonAB
on May 4, 2009
Those commercials are awesome!
DRWAM
on May 4, 2009
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.
DRWAM
on May 4, 2009
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
gorath
on May 4, 2009
DRWAM, I can confirm that windows 7 definitely runs faster on my laptop, and by a noticeable margin. Performance so far is stellar.
yert
on May 4, 2009
What? Ray Ozzie is in a band? No, but it wouldn't be the first softie to do so. :P
gorath
on May 4, 2009
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!
pthurrott
on May 4, 2009
OK, let's not get too far off topic here, please. Paul
DRWAM
on May 4, 2009
Thanks Gorath.
slimshadey
on May 4, 2009
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.
anonymuos
on May 5, 2009
Is there ANY way to download Silverlight-streamed videos (that first video)? That's the only thing I don't like about Silverlight.
DRWAM
on May 5, 2009
Thanks Slim. I've got the upgrade bug badly this time.

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