QOTD: Which Version of Windows 7 Do You Use?

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32bit Vista Ultimate to 32bit Win7 Pro.

Not a very easy upgrade to accomplish. Had to reinstall original OEM 32bit Vista Home Premium and then upgrade to Win7 Pro from there.

micros~1 and their constraints, Bleh!
 
None now. I had the RC7 64bit, worked fine on my home-grown. Tried a clean install on the same HDD after DoD-ing the drive, Black Screen of Death time. Something changed between build 7100 and the "finished" product. I'm on an MS forum trying to get it straighened out; seems to be a GPU problem with codecs or such. But I've got a bad feeling that it's going to be new GPU time. Oh, well, at least there are some new choices so maybe it should be a good feeling after all. After the first of the year Nvidia is on track to release a new ATI 57++ killer according to the blogs, the Christmas rush will be over and pricing should be more attractive for a higher-end card.
 
I don't have any yet. I'm waiting to read what people say about Win7. I installed Vista when it came out, people said perfect things about the RC and then it was the fiasco the whole world knows.
So, nothing against the product but i'll wait.

What i notice is the HUGE number of people voting in mass when people write good things about Win7 (like 20+ votes) but the same people voting in mass when someone talks about Apple products or MacOS, as if someone was REALLY worried if MacOS or Apple didn't allow Win7 to sold a Zillion Trillion copies. Honestly... tsss, tsss! ;-)
 
I got Pro 64-bit from MSDNAA but I'd prefer to use Starter 64-bit if I could. Any edition above the latter only add functionality I neither want nor need.
 
I ended up with the upgrade version of Windows 7 Professional. The reason why is simple enough. I learned from VISTA Ultimate's extra features are not something I find good enough to spend extra money on. In the end, it does everything I needed Ultimate Edition to do.
 
Ultimate 64-bit. Not yea installed, though.

Reason? I got it in the DIY kit from the Ready to Launch Tour! Insane deal there: $90 mobo, $100 processor, and Ultimate 64-bit NFR. All for $189!
 
Home premium x64. No need for more than 16GB of RAM at the moment and a quad or twelve core in one CPU runs fine for now as well! Also, XP mode? I dual boot to XP whenever i need it, pfff!!!
 
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