Comments on Real Software: Windows 7 has arrived

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2009-11-05T18:25:12.288-06:00

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We have made a tremendous effort to solve the issu...

2009-11-02T10:02:11.778-06:00

We have made a tremendous effort to solve the issue with running a project in the debugger on Windows XP but we have been unable to do so. Fortunately, there's a simple (but annoying) workaround.

REAL Software follows Apple's example when it ...

2009-11-02T09:34:18.382-06:00

REAL Software follows Apple's example when it comes to operating system support. Broken compatibility with Windows XP makes REALbasic a non-starter if you expect to sell your product to corporations.

I agree - XP is over 10 years old since it started...

2009-10-29T10:16:13.147-05:00

I agree - XP is over 10 years old since it started getting written. Users clining to such an old OS keeps everyone else back (same happens with Internet Explorer 6 and 7 keeping web applications in the past). Good for you RB for encouraging the upgrade. Vista, contrary to the bad press, was a leap forward compared with XP (which was not bad for its time, by any mean), and Win7 brings that level even higher. Coming from Vista, I didn't expect too much from Win7, but so many details have been tweaked. I *LOVE* this OS.

I have Vista 64 Ultimate base system and on top of...

2009-10-26T13:38:15.025-05:00

I have Vista 64 Ultimate base system and on top of it I run various VMWare guest systems, for testing purposes, but also in order to separate certain tasks.

On the base system I'm just doing Video Editing. Within one virtual machine I do all my office and banking stuff. And finaly I'm doing software development in a VMWare Workstation running Windows XP.

Since one year I use it to program with REALBasic. Today I installed Windows 7 Ultimate as a guest system and moved all my development tools and sources over to the new virtual system. And everything worked straight forward. I do not notice any slow-down effect any more.

So far I like Windows 7, and it works well as a VM on my AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ @ 3GHz and with 8 GB Ram. This Host system is already more than 2 years old, but runs all this still very well.

I have no need to go back to XP... and for the pricing: I paid about $200 for an OEM Ultimate version, overhere in Switzerland. I think that's ok.

RB seems to run very well, even though the system is virtualized.
(Nevertheless I'm looking forward to Ubuntu 9.10 - coming in 3 days).

Windows 7 does run on Mac Hardware -- it's jus...

2009-10-25T22:33:18.490-05:00

Windows 7 does run on Mac Hardware -- it's just not "officially" supported yet. I'm running it in Bootcamp and VMWare on a Mac Pro, and just Bootcamp on a Mac mini. No problems what-so-ever. Note that I am running Snow Leopard on both computers, your mileage may vary with older OSes.

Overall, I like Windows 7. It's makes the desktop feel turbo charged when compared to XP or Vista. It's a great upgrade for users in the Windows world.

Comment about Windows 7 pricing: It's absurd. Windows 7 should be priced just like Snow Leopard was. Please point me towards the first class action suit against Microsoft for Windows 7 pricing. They are truly using their monopolistic power to full affect to make people pay for a fix to Vista. In fact, type "winver" at the Run... prompt and you'll discover that Windows 7 isn't really Windows 7 at all, it is Windows 6.1 (Vista release 1).

I use Boot Camp on a Mac Pro to run Windows. From ...

2009-10-25T08:08:31.297-05:00

I use Boot Camp on a Mac Pro to run Windows. From what I understand, Apple will not have a Win7 compatible version of Boot Camp until later in the year.

@Anonymous: Simple deductive reasoning. It did not...

2009-10-25T02:51:00.481-05:00

@Anonymous: Simple deductive reasoning. It did not have this issue as far back as I can remember. Only recently (this year) did the issue crop up. XP did not change during this time - RB did. If the source were available there would likely be a fix for it.

Honestly, we have spent a huge amount of time on t...

2009-10-22T13:37:30.808-05:00

Honestly, we have spent a huge amount of time on this issue. Several times we thought we had it solved only to find out we didn't. And since it's not an issue for Vista and Windows 7, we are less inclined to keep trying.

@Anonymous: I find it interesting that you can tel...

2009-10-22T12:45:45.440-05:00

@Anonymous: I find it interesting that you can tell the different between what's an OS issue and what's not without having ever seen the source code. That's an interesting skill.

So there are no plans to fix the Windows XP issue?...

2009-10-22T12:29:39.636-05:00

So there are no plans to fix the Windows XP issue? The issue is not with the OS because RB didn't USED to have this problem. Shame.