Windows 7 question for Beta testers

[BaldEagl]

I didn't load the Win7 beta.  I keep reading that for home networking you have to have 2 machines with Win7.  Is that just to make things simpler or will they only network with other Win7 systems?  Just curious as I was considering installing it when it became available and migrating my XP Pro license to my old machine but I don't want to lose my network.

[Irwink!]

IIRC you'll only get the full benefits (whatever those are, I've already forgotten) of the new Home Network features if all machines are running Win7. Beyond that all networking features run the same in mixed mode with XP and/or Vista machines as they do now with Vista. I personally have never been intrigued enough by the supposed "benefits" to install Win7 on more than just 1 test machine. IMHO Win7 is indeed just a slimmed down repackaged version of Vista.

[kamori]

I have Win7 On a dual boot with my xp machime and I network on both to my 2000 and other xp box.
It works.

Kam

[68Wooley]

I've been using Win 7 at home ever since the beta was released.

It networks just fine with other machines. Only issue was setting up shared folders on it - that took a bit of Googling. Turns out there are security policies set by default that prevent other OS's seeing SMB folders. Can't remember the exact details, but its solvable.

Otherwise, I've been pretty impressed - much more so than I was with Vista.

AH2 runs on it fine btw.

[Gatr]

 I have a 170 opteron and I could not get rid of the spinny clip board.. on 7... I went back to XP.....  DC optimizer did not run for me on 7

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I have a 170 opteron and I could not get rid of the spinny clip board.. on 7... I went back to XP.....  DC optimizer did not run for me on 7

There's an easy solution for that: use Intel.