Thoughts on Windows7 from Mark Minasi

Posted By: Adam Bomb | Nov 18th, 2008 @ 12:01 AM | 24,168 Views | 5 Comments

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I was at the Connections conference in Vegas this week and ran in to popular event speaker, author, and generally Good Guy (tm) Mark Minasi. Mark was presenting a few sessions on the day, but took time out of his schedule to give me his impressions on Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.
You can find out more about Mark's work on his wesite, http://www.minasi.com

Tags: Mark Minasi, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

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AlexdeJong

Allways nice to hear about new technologies and nice cities. Mark Minasi is great.

There was another interview with Mark Minasi AND Mark Russinovich in Barcelona too.

Check out

http://www.ngn.nl/ngn?waxtrapp=jtsrvHsHyoOtvOXEaMdMI

to see the interview with M&M.

This was done by me and 3 other community member from the Netherlands. (www.ngn.nl)

Ciao, Alex de Jong

www.AlexdeJong.com
www.ngn.nl/alexdejong

Asuka

In reply to AlexdeJong

#Nov 18th, 2008 @ 6:38 AM

Great Website and video

Goran Topalovic

It is always nice to hear Mark speaking, because he is great professional and speaker. I agree with him about not rushing into next version of the OS, x64, and about drivers. VHD is also good feature of W7.

sec443

In reply to AlexdeJong

#Nov 18th, 2008 @ 6:38 AM

Two issues I am experiencing with Windows7 so far:

1- Office 2007 docs crashing suddenly

2- Sync Center does not recognize my handheld, and thereofre, cannot build a new partnership with my laptop.

sec443@gmail.com

R0B

For a beta of a OS Update bugs on this small of a magnitude sound pretty good.

I mounted a VHD in my Windows 7 Boot manager and it worked great. Additionally, I was able to boot that same VHD in Virtual PC, as long as a hard another VHD as primary of it to serve as it's Boot Manager. Of course, I still have to sysprep to switch from the Physical Hardware to the Virtual PC virtual hardware. I miss hardware profiles. I wish Windows had a Default Virtual PC hardware profile.

How do I suggest this to Microsoft?

I would also like to figure out how to replicate the above Physical Boot (Windows 7 Boot Manager) and Virtual Boot (Virtual PC or Server) with Windows XP as the virtualized OS. Since the Windows Boot Manger allows the addition of a VHD and the addition of a NTLoader entry but not the combination of the two, I didn't see an easy way to have an WinXP VM.

If I make any progress, I'll reply again or post to http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~rbache/blog/index.html.