Windows 7 - the hype has started again

[RayL]

I haven't been in 'The Lounge' for a while so thank you Chris for your phone call yesterday, alerting me to fresh activity on this thread. Thanks also to the other contributors.

Bill, your comment about "W7 doesn't have the majority of compatibility problems with 'older' software or hardware that its predecessor had", seems at odds with comments I've seen on other forums where, for example, Adobe Premiere 6.5 (which I use extensively and which works with Win 2000 and Win XP) does not work with Windows 7. Also, does Win 7 have that arrogant and unpleasant feature which came in with Vista, whereby an optical disk that is not usable with a particular computer causes Vista to remove the optical drive from view in Windows Explorer?

Ray L

[Bill Bowley]

Ray,

I should have qualified the 'doesn't have the majority of problems' etc and said that I meant with applications that we use -Adobe Premiere 6.5 is not one of them, so I can't offer any info there. However, reading

http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/ ... lement_1=5

Adobe seems to believe that it does work with W7 and they are the manufacturers, so its a matter of who is more correct or competent between Adobe and those that say it doesn't work I guess.

[cmwatts67]

I thought these are interesting links:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtua ... nload.aspx


Regards
Chris