Microsoft Windows 7?

[Fitzy]

Hi all.

Emma has a 64 bit Vista lappy, and I want to buy her a copy of Windows 7 from here in the UK.
In my opinion Win 7 is m/soft's apology for Vista
If I buy it from here, and try and register it in the Phils, M/soft will see that it's an EMEA copy, and I suspect that the authentication will fail upon registration!


Any ideas from you fellow PC Tecchies please??

[Englishman2010]

Hi all.

Emma has a 64 bit Vista lappy, and I want to buy her a copy of Windows 7 from here in the UK.
In my opinion Win 7 is m/soft's apology for Vista
If I buy it from here, and try and register it in the Phils, M/soft will see that it's an EMEA copy, and I suspect that the authentication will fail upon registration!


Any ideas from you fellow PC Tecchies please??

Buy a Mac

Sorry, I'm not much use. I've given up with MS products, Vista and IE7/8 are the worst programmes/OS MS have come up with. After struggling with Vista for two years I have given up and am now actively looking for a Mac. In the meantime I've switched to Mozilla Firefox, Google Mail and use Google's on line FREE office type software. I dont have any of the regular crashes I experienced with Outlook, Windows Mail, IE7, Office ..etc.

[Fitzy]

Buy a Mac

Sorry, I'm not much use. I've given up with MS products, Vista and IE7/8 are the worst programmes/OS MS have come up with. After struggling with Vista for two years I have given up and am now actively looking for a Mac. In the meantime I've switched to Mozilla Firefox, Google Mail and use Google's on line FREE office type software. I dont have any of the regular crashes I experienced with Outlook, Windows Mail, IE7, Office ..etc.

Thank you.

Very interesting reply.

Perhaps if it were my PC I would do that, but thanks anyway.

[KeithD]

Buy a Mac

Sorry, I'm not much use. I've given up with MS products, Vista and IE7/8 are the worst programmes/OS MS have come up with. After struggling with Vista for two years I have given up and am now actively looking for a Mac. In the meantime I've switched to Mozilla Firefox, Google Mail and use Google's on line FREE office type software. I dont have any of the regular crashes I experienced with Outlook, Windows Mail, IE7, Office ..etc.

Methinks you need to learn how to use a computer, 99.9% of crashes are caused by hardware, driver, and 3rd party installs, not MS products, and the MAC had the most security issues during 2009 ... over-priced hyped up word processors they are.

[IainBusby]

Methinks you need to learn how to use a computer, 99.9% of crashes are caused by hardware, driver, and 3rd party installs, not MS products, and the MAC had the most security issues during 2009 ... over-priced hyped up word processors they are.

I work in a university and I can't believe how many people here are paying way over the odds for a Mac just because some of their friends have hyped it up to them and then when they've got one all they use it for is running windows parallels which is just an extremely slow way of running windows.

[KeithD]

If people paid attention to Windows errors they'd see it is not a MS problem. Just because the OS gives an error does not mean the OS is having a problem, it mostly informs you 3rd party installs are basically crap

[triple5]

still on XP here. if it aint broken don't fix it

[Fitzy]

OK!!

Sorry.

Let me try to rephrase.

I need to get my hands on an Asian region version of Win 7??

Any tips pls??

Thanks alot.


Yes I agree Emulators suck!!

Is why most of my machines are running Win Xp Pro SP3

[IainBusby]

still on XP here. if it aint broken don't fix it

I never switched from XP to Vista but Windows 7 is a whole new ball game, it's so much better. As many people have said, Windows 7 is what Vista should have been.

[joebloggs]

still on XP here. if it aint broken don't fix it

my pc ia on 24/7, only time it reboots is when little joe presses the reset button

[les_taxi]

I never switched from XP to Vista but Windows 7 is a whole new ball game, it's so much better. As many people have said, Windows 7 is what Vista should have been.

You all laughed at me when I told you this
May your codecs make odd sounds,your graphics card pixelate and your memory modules forget what they are meant to do

[fred]

Why cant she just buy a copy over here?? (P.I)

[Fitzy]

Why cant she just buy a copy over here?? (P.I)

Am trying to find out where???
I guess they don't have PC World?(thank god!!)

Am trying to find a reputable software vendor in the Phils

Thanks..

[aromulus]

Am trying to find out where???
I guess they don't have PC World?(thank god!!)

Am trying to find a reputable software vendor in the Phils

Thanks..

http://computerscebu.blogspot.com/

I am sure that at least one of those links will be able to help....

As per the "reputable" bit... I ain't going to put my hand on the fire for them....

[Alan]

Got Windows 7 Ultimate for 100 pesos here.

Not that I have installed it of course - that would be courting software piracy!

People tell me that it is excellent!!

Al.

[Fitzy]

Got Windows 7 Ultimate for 100 pesos here.

Not that I have installed it of course - that would be courting software piracy!

People tell me that it is excellent!!

Al.

Interesting

I wonder how they re wrote the embedded code, to make it authenticate/update???

[RickyR]

I installed Windows 7 on my laptop when it was released and love it. It's vista, simplified, with less errors, boots quicker and is just BETTER :-)

[les_taxi]

Interesting

I wonder how they re wrote the embedded code, to make it authenticate/update???

There is ahem a special version of windows 7 available for zilch which updates too
I have a "friend" who tried it

Personaly I got my genuine copy very cheap anyway