Ready. Set. Windows 7 Hardware Support!

Installed Vista Beta when released. Purchased Vista the day after it was released. Currently have six Vista machines running full time, four Vista 64. Some companies failed to provide Vista drivers for their products, but generally 'Vista ready' hardware was readily available. Some companies are just bad at drivers even for XP, much less cutting edge like Vista 64. Old hardware, printers, wireless adapters, various Old PCI cards, etc. would not work without Vista drivers. My Pinnacle studio 9 suite has no Vista driver. Pinnacle video editing suites require a PCI card (or usb). I installed my PCI version 9 it and made it work, but not well enough to leave it. Pinnacle supplied Vista support with suite 10 I believe. Office 2000 Small Business works flawlessly with Vista and Windows 7 for that matter. Really r_manic it's the PC tech wanna B's that bad mouth Vista. If I have something, a software, that I can't use with Vista I find an alternative. I enjoy my Vista machines. My whole family uses Vista 64.

For example 8)

Windows ME (yes Windows ME) was the original system Microsoft added the "Camera and Scanner Wizard" you see on XP (ha! that bit of software is a carry over from Windows ME). The XP "Scanner and Camera wizard" can be accessed from the XP Control Panel. Many people do not even realize they use XP Camera and Scanner Wizard every time they plug their digital camera in to XP. The wizard pops up or is a selection item. You can put a check mark by the pictures you want to download from the camera and create a specific folder to load them to. Not on Vista! The Windows ME/XP Camera and Scanner Wizard was canned with Vista. So, we use this wizard constantly with our work with Clinical Photography.

This program (I think Adobe stole it LOL!) provides the same 'Wizard' as the built in Windows ME/XP Camera and Scanner wizard!!! And it works perfectly on Vista 32/64! Who needs XP! LOL.

http://www.adobe.com/support/downl [...] ileID=3404

I have had nothing but amazing experiences with Windows 7 so far. I originally installed it on a new HTPC I built a few weeks ago. I was having trouble getting any OS to use my Hauppauge 2250 HD tuner correctly. XP Pro lacks any Media Center, and Hauppauge's wasn't anything to write home about. Vista would recognize the card, but only identify SD channels. The same occurred with Ubuntu and other Linux flavors as well. Once I dropped Win7 on there, it picked up my tuner, and all SD and HD channels.

That was the biggest selling point for me; everything just worked, which was a surprise coming from an OS that hasn't even hit RTM yet.

Other than that, its a very snappy OS and runs well even on my 3-year-old HP tx1000 laptop. I currently have Windows 7 installed on 4 of my home computers, and haven't have one problem yet. The only thing that I MIGHT classify as a problem, is that when I put my personal system to sleep, it has commitment issues and will wake back up in a minute or two, but that isn't really a problem for me, but will most likely be solved with never Win7 drivers from nvidia.

If I had another hand, I'd give it 3 thumbs up.

This is great news guys.
http://www.techamok.com/?pid=6415

Also ME introduced System Restore !!! (To me ME's one saving grace since you had to use it constantly... lol)

To the OP

Windows 7 hardware support so far is fantastic from what I can tell.

One impressive example is one of my test bed machines I have an old Audigy sound card (one of the originals)
And Vista for a long time I had to use hacked drivers downloaded off the net then finally Creative buckled and released actual drivers.... Anyway long story short I installed 7 on this machine and while I did not have drivers on the disk it downloaded the right drivers from MS after like 2 minutes installed them and I had sound with no reboot required...

Color me impressed.