[DUG] to Vista 64bit or not?

[Jeremy Coulter]

I have installed Windows7 beta in a VM session (32bit only) and it flew
even on my old/current machine.
Has anyone tried Delphi7 on it? I unfortuntily have to support some stuff
with Delphi 7 and it need to run on it.
 
Jeremy

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From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Jason Coley
Sent: 7 August 2009 09:56
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] to Vista 64bit or not?



I fully recommend installing Win7, I know this shouldn't be said but there
are plenty of torrents for the RTM build, when you can finally purchase the
RTM (or get it through other MS channels), just enter your product key. You
can re-arm it when necessary (up to 120 days I think) so the RTM version
will be in shops by then.

 

Honestly, I ran Vista 64bit for a few years, and to be honest I never had
many issues with it, but Win7 is really that much better.

 

The only think you need to be wary about is Win7 64bit and Delphi 2007 &
2009 (not sure if older versions have any hassles), but there is a small
change that needs to be made to a Delphi file for debugging, as an error
appears when closing a debug session (and multi threads are used), that
kills Delphi. I am hoping Embarcadero fix this, as the problem is there in
final RTM version of Win7.

 

Anyway, just my 5 cents, I know I'll never go back from Win7!

 

Regards from New Zealand (GMT+12)

 

Jason Coley

Software Solutions

 

 

 

From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter
Sent: Friday, 7 August 2009 9:35 a.m.
To: Jason
Subject: [DUG] to Vista 64bit or not?

 

Hi Guys.

I am building my new machine today...YAY....and sinces I am getting a pretty
res. machine (quad core with 4 gig) which is replacing my VERY faithful, but
increasingly unreliable Pent 4 3GB, I am trying to decide wether or not to
install Vista 64bit since I have a copy of it.

The only reason I was thinking of it was that I can utilise the memory so I
can use Virtual machines etc.

I was thinking of Windows 7, but since its still pretty much beta, I dont
want to have to reinstall everthing again when it comes out.

 

Anyone got any ideas? Should I infact get say fedora 64bit (if there is one)
and install VMware etc?

 

Jeremy

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