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Running Windows 7 Beta Software List

I’ve been playing with Windows 7 Beta on a VM for quite some time and I really like it.  I’ve been yearning for something new for a while now, and on a whim… I did it.  I installed Windows 7 Ultimate Beta on my main machine.  I think this is the first time I’ve committed to a beta OS.  We’ll see how this guys, but I have a feeling it’s going to be just fine.

Here’s the software I’m running so far and it’s Win7 compatibility

Windows Live Mesh OK
AVG Anti-Virus (Free Edition)
 OK
Virtual Box
 OK
Cisco VPN Client OK (surprise!)  FAIL

I was hoodwinked by this one.  It worked on my VM, and it installed and ran successfully on my T61.  However, after a reboot, Windows blue-screen infinitely.  Curses... I loathe this software.  It's complete junk.  I'm told Cisco has abandoned development on it and they're forcing people to upgrade to new networking hardware in order to get on their new client software.

NCP offers a Cisco replacement client that I'm strongly considering.  They support 64bit as well as WIndows 7.
TextPad 5 OK
Adobe Reader FAIL (no surprise)
Foxit Reader OK (who needs adobe?)
Chrome OK
Firefox OK
Daemon Tools FAIL
Magic ISO / Magic Disc FAIL – installs, but won’t run

Oddly, this worked on the VM I was using to test Win7, but not on my Lenovo ThinkPad T61.  This one was quite nasty to get off of my machine
Virtual Clone Drive OK

This installed once, but wouldn’t run.  I reinstalled, and seems to be ok now I don’t think Magic ISO was fully uninstalled the first time.
Windows Home Server Console OK
Password Agent OK
Launchy OK
Windows Live Writer OK
Windows Live Messenger OK
Silverlight OK
TortoiseSVN OK
Paint.NET OK
ClipPath OK
Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools FAIL
Adobe Flash OK
Filezilla FTP Client OK
TweetDeck OK
Visual Studio 2008 Team Developer + SP1 OK
ReSharper 4.5 OK
VisualSVN OK
Office Ultimate 2007 OK
Reflector OK
Gallio OK
Snippet Compiler OK
TestDriven.NET OK
SQL Server 2008 Developer OK
Sysinternals Suite OK
.NET Memory Profiler OK
ASP.NET MVC OK
Castle Stack OK
Fluent NHibernate OK

 

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# re: Running Windows 7 Beta Software List

nice work kb. so you are ok with reinstalling all this when they cut you off in a few months?
4/21/2009 6:55 PM | bill

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