Microsoft CEO calls Japanese response to Windows 7 'fantastic'

Friday 06th November, 07:04 AM JST

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cactusJack at 03:23 PM JST - 6th November

KallyPygous, are you running WIN7 as a Virtual Machine?
Yelnats at 04:02 PM JST - 6th November

I am an Apple fan, but that is because I like and do art and music and all the fun things with it. When I was using a PC during Apples bad system 09 I was so frustrated in trying to integrate movies and slide shows and music, that when apple udpdated to it in a flash, and have not looked back since. Everyone else in my family have windows. Some need it due to business, but they like my apple too. I was using my dad's new pc last summer and found it to be very fast and ok with everything. But I was just searching the net and doing mail.
KallyPygous at 04:50 PM JST - 6th November

KallyPygous, are you running WIN7 as a Virtual Machine?

Nope. Running it on partitioned hard drives. Got Snow Leopard, Ubuntu and Windows 7. Windows 7 is by far the clunkiest. Each partition is very large, with much more than 30% free space.
terebiko at 05:47 PM JST - 6th November

Monkey boy speaks! I am sure Windows 7 will work best for those who buy a new computer with it pre-installed. Upgraders are the ones who will have the headaches. Hopefully this will help Microsoft make a come back, after the Vista fiasco. I read that they just laid off about 5800 people, 800 more than they planned to. The Seattle-area can't afford another hit, after Boeing decided to make a plant in SC. I can see it now, Microsoft moves it's home office to India....
timorborder at 06:05 PM JST - 6th November

Big Steve Balmer, who will for ever be remember for his monkey dance.
seeker1 at 09:09 PM JST - 6th November

The monkey dance is a sight to see. I think it's on youtube for anyone interested.
Sarge at 09:26 PM JST - 6th November

Microsoft still rules.
forinagai at 11:19 PM JST - 6th November

I've been running the full version of W7 for about 3 months. AMD Dual Core + 3GB RAM. So far, no problems. And I use PC for video encoding, watching movies, graphics creation, website creation. So how come some of you guys with a better spec pc can't get W7 to run? It certainly can't be the OS!
roughneck at 04:05 AM JST - 7th November

Just to verify, my computers have core 2 duo processors. One has 4gb ram, the other 2gb.

OK, unless your w7 is 64 bit, you are using only 3 GB of RAM.

Running it on partitioned hard drives. Got Snow Leopard, Ubuntu and Windows 7. Windows 7 is by far the clunkiest

Well, that's may be because it is trying to index the other partitions. Hide the Leopard and Ubuntu partitions or stop indexing. Apple machines were never best for running Windows, because of the drivers in-compatibility.
griff at 04:41 AM JST - 7th November

Apple machines were never best for running Windows, because of the drivers in-compatibility.

that's a load of rubbish. macs these days mostly use the same kinds of components to pc boxes
bdiego at 10:22 AM JST - 7th November

Of course it's fantastic, they finally ported Macintosh interface to a Windows platform. As an owner of several PCs and Macbooks I applaud them for finally getting something right. After decades of bashing Microsoft, I'll give them credit where it's due.
bdiego at 10:24 AM JST - 7th November

BTW to back up what griff said, most Macs will run Windows way better than the average PC. There's no more driver in-compatability than with PCs, stop pulling things out of your ass.
randomenigma at 02:46 PM JST - 7th November

OK, unless your w7 is 64 bit, you are using only 3 GB of RAM.

This is actually a fallacy, this limit is for virtual memory (per application), not for RAM.

There is a 4 GB limit for Windows 7 which is enforced in software to prevent people using it as a server. The server OS (Windows Server 2008) will go to 64 GB even on the 32-bit version.
Badsey at 10:22 PM JST - 7th November

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778(VS.85).aspx

Windoz Memory Limits:
presto345 at 11:56 PM JST - 7th November

Smart folks held on to XP

Thank you for that. When I bought my new Sotec half a year ago I could choose Vista or XP. Of course I chose XP! Vista is a major pain in the . . . (I work with 6 different PCs - even a Thinkpad with W2K which is just great) But giving Gates credit goes too far, because

I have no fondness for Gatess monoply and control of the market and the power he can then project into our daily lives. Pretty obscene, in my opinion.

Exactly.