Demos – Windows 7 Discovery Tour

The Discovery tour is bringing the new features in Windows 7 to the Canadian masses to see what they think. Find more at: www.facebook.com

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winjoxx Says:
at 6:02 pm
@aqilahfungurlz cmon! move on dude..
thejack544 Says:
at 6:02 pm
why… i have win vista too but im upgrading soon but dont you find that vista is EXTREMLY slow (not bout hardware i have 2500mhz intel centrino) and its kinda unstable … i got the blue screen of death many times on my vista home premium ….
pascbjumper2 Says:
at 6:02 pm
Really? Why?
I’ve got both on my computer, and I’ve decided that windows 7 is the better of the two. Though, I was a little skeptic at first. It just runs a lot faster, and is running programs far larger then vista would have been able to. (adobe photoshop on two monitors, photoshop using 2 gig of ram at once, no problems) Though I do wish it were possible to toggle the task bar, so it’d be like vista’s.
aqilahfungurlz Says:
at 6:02 pm
hmmm.. i like window vista more..
Mathiiazh Says:
at 6:02 pm
yeah , but its way too late :D come on windows, be creative.
roydenb123 Says:
at 6:02 pm
“good artists copy great artists steal” – Pablo Piccaso
Mathiiazh Says:
at 6:02 pm
LOL it reminds me of a mac commercial from year 1999 or something haha.
thieves!!
LoooFeN Says:
at 6:02 pm
Go with Mac instead, Windows SUX!
BorkGonsam Says:
at 6:02 pm
you can put windows 7 on a desktop too
dancerfroggy223 Says:
at 6:02 pm
i wanna get windows 7 really bad but the thing is i don’t have a laptop yet but i am saving up to get one for Christmas…it would be cool if you guys would do a laptop giveaway with Windows 7 already installed
Delalcon Says:
at 6:02 pm
You want windows 7 without having a laptop? Jeez DX
lavelliINC Says:
at 6:02 pm
that window shake feature is cool i didnt know about that one .. very useful.
WickedJargon Says:
at 6:02 pm
well it’s not true anymore thankfully
widerangledotcom Says:
at 6:02 pm
im not sure if this is still true, but the ‘full’ version of maya was only available on windows
CJCA915 Says:
at 6:02 pm
Well, I can put 3ds max on a Mac, if I install Windows, it’s not the computer that,s not supported, it’s the OS. CGI for films is usually rendered at about 1.46 megapixels. Toy Story, for example, was rendered at 1536 × 922 (1.42MP). The time to render one frame is typically around 23 hours, with ten times that for the most complex scenes.

Not sure, something that was available for that kind of work, in mid 90s.
WickedJargon Says:
at 6:02 pm
Maya is available on the Mac luckily. I’m not sure what app they used to make Toy Story but I know they were on a line of Mac Pro computers, perhaps it was motion.
WickedJargon Says:
at 6:02 pm
3Ds Max isn’t a big loss for most relative fields. But perhaps autoCAD is since it is an industry standard. Maya and Motion are great equivalents for 3Ds max and some would even argue better.
TheCanaldelsur Says:
at 6:02 pm
its good “yo quiero Windows Seven”
CJCA915 Says:
at 6:02 pm
Can AutoCAD make CG animations, such as Toy Story type animations?

3DS MAX was used in the making of the movie King Kong, it was also used in Star Trek Nemesis.

I think 3DS MAX is the easiest and most straight forward GUI, I have tried Lightwave, Blender, TrueSpace.

I think they used Maya for Star Trek Enterprise.
CJCA915 Says:
at 6:02 pm
I was just saying, most of the applications I use and are accustomed to, are Windows only applications.

Autodesk 3D Studio Max, is a Windows only CG application.
WickedJargon Says:
at 6:02 pm
i dont understand how that rebuts my statement.
CJCA915 Says:
at 6:02 pm
Well, most of the applications I use, mainly my CG application, is a Windows own application.
WickedJargon Says:
at 6:02 pm
There tends to be a OS X version or equivalent of most industry standard / mainstream productivity apps. For myself, it’s not the quantity of the apps available to a particular OS but the quality of the ones I’ll be using frequently.
CJCA915 Says:
at 6:02 pm
Every Apple fan I come across, and or commercials claim it can do everything, and in some cases better than a Windows PC.

Well, it’s not the computer that can do everything, I can run Windows on a iMac or MacBook, and it would perform just as good as any other computer, since most Apple computers run on Intel now.

Out of the entire Apple OS, I would maybe make use of, Photo Booth, that’s it.
WickedJargon Says:
at 6:02 pm
where do they claim it can do ‘everything’? can it do my dishes too?

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The curtain has been raised (slightly) on the next installment of Microsoft’s Windows operating system – Windows 7.

Microsoft hope it will bring the internet, mobile phone and PC closer together. But reviews have so far been mixed, although reviewers have been limited to trying the (pre-beta version).

The full version is expected to be capable of working with a touchscreen screen, navigating documents and the Web similar to Apple’s iPhone. It is officially released at the end of 2009.

InfoWorld

“I have seen the future, and it is bleak. Windows 7, the next big version, the one that was supposed to fix everything that was wrong with Vista, is here (at least in pre-beta form), and I can now say – with some confidence – that Microsoft has once again dropped the ball.

“Overall, I’m extremely disappointed with Windows 7. Far from atoning for Vista’s sins, Windows 7 simply carries them forward, visiting them upon yet another generation. Windows 7 is no panacea. Rather, it’s just more of the same: slow, bloated, and frustrating as hell.”

The Register

“When it comes to Windows 7, Microsoft hasn’t just learned from the mistakes of Windows Vista. It has picked up a thing or two from Apple’s OS X, judging by first impressions.

Techradar

“It’s not clear how big the changes are so far. If you put the beta-build of Windows 7 side-by-side with Windows Vista, you’d be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Yes, some of the icons look slightly different and there’s no sidebar, but it’s essentially still the Vista look and feel. But that changes when you start to use Windows 7.

“For a start the OS won’t nag you as much; many notifications are banished to a control panel, you get to approve icons before they show up in the system tray and Microsoft has reined in Vista’s useful but annoying UAC prompts; you can choose which ones you want to see or turn them off altogether.”

ZDNet

“Initially Windows 7 looks similar to Vista, but there a lot of new features that have been added. Under the skin, Microsoft has been working hard. Boot times have been reduced, and certainly the review laptop Microsoft provided has a fairly snappy boot time.

“Microsoft has been working with OEMs to improve battery life – simple things such as reducing the timer frequency can improve battery life by up to 10 per cent. The networking stack has had new diagnostics added to help users figure out exactly where the problem lies.

PC Magazine

“So, is this all a big deal? It’s not a change to the fundamental core of Windows, and most of the improvements sound relatively small. But taken together, they seem to address many of the issues people have had for Windows. I’m looking forward to trying it out, starting this afternoon.”

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