It’s about time Microsoft released an OS worthy of some hype and excitement. Mark my words, friends: Windows 7 will be Microsoft’s watershed OS. If it’s not, then MS in in serious trouble. Like Palm, Windows is beloved, hated, and long overdue for an overhaul. Unlike Palm, Microsoft’s executives have so much money that they line hamster cages with it. That’s why I’m particularly interested in this review of beta 1: it has all the promise of Palm’s Nova with the means to deliver.
The interface is considerably cleaned up – the task bar doesn’t look like an army of ants invaded it. Two interesting improvements:
# Aero Snap
Aero Snap is a simple little feature that I find myself using all the time. This is a gestures driven method of organizing Windows. Drag a window to the top of the screen and the app is maximized. Drag it to the side and you get it to tile to one half of the screen. Drag the app away from the top of the screen to restore it. It;s a very handy feature indeed, especially for people who work with multiple applications.
# Aero Peek
Ever wanted to see what was on your desktop without minimizing all your applications? Aero Peek is the feature for you. Mouse over the small area on the right-hand side of the taskbar and you get a glimpse of what’s on your desktop, allowing you to see shortcuts and gadgets. Aero Peek is of limited usefulness though since you can’t interact with anything on the desktop because as soon as you move the mouse off the Peek spot the applications all return.
The OS itself is described as “solid and fast,” terms that could be applied to both Windows and my latest bowel movements – no interesting news there. You’d expect that after the bloat of Vista anything streamlined by Microsoft would be solid and fast.
My dream? That W7 will be great enough for me to use on a daily basis. I’m out of the Windows habit but I’d love to be sucked back in with a good, strong showing from Microsoft.
Looked at the pics in the ZDnet review. It still doesnt meet the aesthetics of a Mac or customized Linux distro but if its stable…..i guess it should be good. Speaking of linux, is that a KDE inspired taskbar?
And speaking of Linux… I like Maximunize better (Compiz Fusion) and the fact that when you press a key you send all apps to the side to interact with whatever you have in the desktop.
It is KDEish, right? It’s not just me then.
I hope Steve Ballmer delivers on this being a stabler version of Vista rather than something all around new… If they can give us an OS that doesn’t ask you to spend tons on new equipment and that it doesn’t die whenever you are actually working with it… THEN it might be a good OS, and Vista would be officially the new ME.
hi, i already try windows 7, and it’s great, i think it will be better than xp, right now, the light of my house went tree times, and becouse of that my computer crash, but windows 7 make a nice and easy way to fix it. the programs work like a charm, the speed it’s good, and i think it will be better when it finisht……..
huh?
huh? – that’s what I thought until I tried it on my older Tablet PC where I could see the differences between XP, Vista and Windows 7 on the identical hardware. read here: http://max.zamorsky.name/2009/01/13/windows7-auf-einem-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pcwindows7-on-a-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pc/
The OS itself is described as “solid and fast,” terms that could be applied to both Windows and my latest bowel movements – no interesting news there.
That’s mean.
When apple comes out with ’snow leopard’, you’ll be masturbating all over the OS DVD because it will be loaded with ‘performance and stability improvements’.
Go and read Engineering 7 blog and see just how much thought is going into this and how 7 is shaping up as THE SILVER BULLET.
Criticism is always more credible when it doesn’t come packaged with blogspam.
The only way that Windows 7 is going to be anything close to a “Silver Bullet” is if they can get big businesses to use it.
Vista had no chance of adoption rate when even Intel wouldn’t install it. Companies such as Best Buy ask other partners “Are you going to use it?” and when they say “No” then it’s almost over for them. The only way that Windows 7 will be what MS needs it to be is if they can get the fortune 500 companies to buy it. Thats where the real money is.
You do realise that Intel had no plans to install XP two years after its release either?
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/444/1035444/intel-chooses-w2k-over-winxp
Don’t get your fact from tech blogs, son. They’re not very reliable.
The difference is that Intel was using Win2k at the time, which was not much different from WinXP at the time, besides the interface changes. They probably started deploying Win2k at its release in 2000 and didn’t want to start another migration only one year into Win2k.
Another issue with Vista, while most of WinXP’s issues were resolved by SP1 and by SP2 there were almost no major issues, Vista is already at SP1 and there are still major issues with it. If things were fine with Vista, Microsoft would not be abandoning it so soon for Windows 7.
Teve Torbes – There arn’t any major problems with Vista. The reason MS wants to move to their next OS quickly is simply bad press. It had some problems at launch, and got bad press, and MS was never able to fully get the dirt off the clothes.
MS even did a little experiment (the mojave experiment) which proved that people didn’t have first hand hatred for vista…it was the old “my friends buddy said” type of thing.
word of mouth is the most effective advertising out there.
I run vista on all my pcs, upgraded them at the first official release and have had NO major problems at all. My sound card became finiky but that I feel was Creatives fault as they suck at driver support. The only other problem was Itunes taking over the DVD burners and it still does! Itunes fault. My pcs run better and boot faster thanever before! When people get a pc and download crap over and over again it messes up a PC. I clean PCs all the time that have 100+ programs that start up and cause problems! That is not MS fault. The reason other OS seem to get alot less blame is almost all of those users are computer smart and know what not to install! They take care of thier system and that makes a huge difference.
I feel I am very computer knowledgable as I build and repair many pcs but still have never got Ubunto(sp?) or any other “simple installing” Linux distro to actually fully install and work? They just don’t. Files end up missing and drivers don’t work ext.. I guess I am so used to Windows just installing and working.
So anyone that says Vista is not stable they do not know what they are talking about! Most problems are from the 64bit versions and again in almost all cases it is the hardware companies being lazy and not updating the drivers. So we should stay 32bit forever?
jimk – How could you not get Ubuntu working?
Are you mentally challenged? If so, try wubi.sourceforge.net
That should help you get your windows humping rocks off.
We got a simple rule here. If you don’t have linux experience, you’re not a real IT or PC techy. Installing linux is a breeze. I’ve tried out 7 distros already, all of which i have installed myself, one at a time on my old laptop just out of curiosity. Consider the fact that 1 year ago i had never used linux.
Windows 7 beat is cool. Im having problems making the taskbar clear though. I have a nvidia gforce 4 graphics card. (old by todays standard) I keep getting a blue screen it might be the pc though. I have yet to test it on my laptop. Runs fast and accesing things is quicker. Vista is more confusing too.
Peace,
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