Comments on: Media Streaming With Windows 7 (and Windows Home Server)

By: Talking About Windows… | We Got Served

Talking About Windows… | We Got Served — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:02:56 +0000

[...] in posting) I completely missed this hitting the web, but following on from my post the other day regarding media sharing in Windows 7 I had an email through regarding a new Microsoft community site for IT Pros, [...]

By: Geoff Coupe

Geoff Coupe — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:17:08 +0000

Of course, being on the bleeding edge of technology is not without its problems. I've documented my experience with the "Play To" feature here:
http://gcoupe.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!6AA39937A9…

And so far, I haven't got the Homegroup feature to work properly, but that's for another day.

By: urmaster

urmaster — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:45 +0000

Oh to add not sure how homegroups fits in with WHS, they seem to have the same purpose??

By: urmaster

urmaster — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:20:06 +0000

Not so for me, my beta worked like a charm but I've noticed some problems with the x64 RC1 on my laptop: fingerprint driver doesn't work which was provided by windows update. Bluetooth didn't install all the drivers for some odd reason and iv'e noticed much more app crashes then the beta. I'm glad to see libraries has taken more of a backseat then the beta. Im yet to test the media sharing on the RC1. Anyhow I'll likely purchase a full retail ASAP once it releases which will be the second only retail purchase of a windows in my family ever 0_0 (windows 98 was the other). Goes to show if MS puts effort in they will reap the rewards cough vista cough

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:12:09 +0000

Installed 7 RC1 the other day on my laptop. Very smooth OS in comparison to when I was using the Final Retail of Vista at release. Also no driver problems, all devices were installed from first boot, with no discs required! This is the best OS I have used since 2000 came out! And were not even at final reatil yet! Well done Microsoft.

By: Nineset

Nineset — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:45:58 +0000

This gives me two irked feelings:

1. I'm still running on a 3 month trial which won't make it until Vail's release (kind of a bummer).

2. This makes me feel like we will be missing out for a while on the windows 7 goodies like remote streaming (still haven't found a reliable service for this (wish I had gotten an HP media smart at this point)), updated virus protection, and the integrated use of libraries, etc until the release of Vail.

I was kind of hoping instead that we would see a larger service pack for the windows 7 release to integrate with some new features.