January 13, 2009 2:31 PM
What you Think of Windows 7
Product Commentary. Windows 7 Beta one may possibly be feature full, but it's not spit and polish. You can find also a lot of tough edges to inflict undesirable cuts.
That's my conclusion following reading Microsoft Observe reader comments about making use of Windows Vista's successor as well as from making use of 7 in the course of virtually three days. If you're wondering concerning the beta, that's accessible for download until finally Jan. 24,
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I'm nonetheless exploring the beast, but allow me to share some added impressions extra for the couple of presented on Saturday: Wake-up from sleep is significantly quicker than Vista. This can be hugely important, since it influences the user's ongoing feelings about employing the working program. When I say wake-up, I don't indicate from blank screen to desktop but to undertaking stuff. Time it will take for me to wake-up Seven and start operating is concerning the identical as Mac OS X Leopard.
Internet Explorer 8 is buggier on Seven than Vista. I am viewing all sorts of strange habits, and you'll find truly bothersome troubles making use of IE eight with Movable Sort four. Whenever MT auto-saves, that's too typically, the window scrolls approximately the best with the web page.
Microsoft has completed a fantastic, but not but excellent, job incorporating a layer of simplicity amongst the person and the operating system. Mac OS X is Unix,
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The user interface is typical of a Windows first beta. You can find nevertheless a lot of inconsistencies in styling and look of Windows. The UI is by no means comprehensive. What I wonder: Since beta is Ultimate, how many UI niceties, like Themes, will probably be accessible in all 7 versions.
The number of UAC (Person Account Control) pop-ups are now at an acceptable number; they're more useful and likely to be ignored less.
I have no major performance troubles, but wonder about later betas. I don't see Welcome Center anywhere. Simply removing that feature and also the static sidebar speed boot-up and wake-up times. OK, I've said my piece, now it can be your turn.
Justin: I have been employing Windows 7 for two days and so far its been really good. Its a lot more rapidly then Vista and a seems quicker then Windows XP. Haven't had any incompatibility problems or crashing issues.
NKnow: Trying to get the beta on Friday was kinda frustrating. Downloaded it from an alternate site Friday night and obtained an activation code Saturday when they resumed downloads. Installation was a snap. It would have been nice if they had the new free security suite they're releasing this summer on it. I received AVG and it worked fine. I installed Acronis home image backup solution and made a restore image in case I break this thing. Notes: Posting this from a Windows seven loaded Fujitsu Lifebook. 1.5GB Ram with a 1.83GHz duo core Centrino processor. Boot time very fast. And overall the method is very responsive. All of my hardware was recognized. My wireless LAN card works flawlessly. Net explorer eight beta works better on this machine now than when it had Vista Ultimate loaded. They must have optimized the code. Or maybe something I'd installed earlier caused it to dork up. I like the new toolbar and Aero Snap features.
I believe some long time Windows end users will hate it though. People hate change... Problem areas: playing some videos from a network location causes BSOD [Blue Screen of Death]. Playing them locally works fine...Networking just works. No muss no fuss setup. One weird thing is that I have to re-enter my credentials for access to mapped drives whenever I log in even though I told the program to remember them...If you hate Vista and are tired of XP and aren't quite ready to buy a Mac in frustration, then I believe this OS will go along way in addressing some of the things you hated in Vista...For myself I will be buying a 7 loaded laptop when it is released. And I'm testing seven today at work in a VMWare guest technique. If it works well there I'll probably start off rolling it out to my business consumers.
John Jones: Windows 7 is not significantly different than Vista. If you like Windows 7 but not Vista then you happen to be one of those people who dislikes Vista solely on the name. The performance of Windows seven may possibly be better than that of Vista under benchmarking but the general feel in the two are indistinguishable on my test program (a Pentium 4 3GHz with 1GB RAM—an older method).
Bill: Installed Windows 7 32bit on a Dell Latitude D620 with 2GB of RAM, as well as the technique is smoking. Installation took under 30 minutes. The startup and shutdown is the most impressive since Windows 3.1 of yesteryear. Rest mode is so responsive that I am @ shock. The new Action Center is well thought out, and I like the small tweaks like sorting Wifi connection by strongest signal. Simple but so effective. The [free] downloads of antivirus trials is a fantastic move, using Norton 360 on the laptop. The new taskbar takes a day or two to get used to it,
Microsoft Office 2007, but now it feels like and old friend. Search is functioning excellent, and the new Library attribute just works. The new Device Manager is worthy addition. Homegroups made it easy to share with other computers in my house. And I love to stream music or video to my Xbox 360 employing the media player. So far so very good.
smist08: When it came up and running I was rather disappointed simply because it looks exactly like Vista! From running it really is a bit better than Vista, in that I tend to only get one UAC message when something happens (like I ask it to install a program) rather than several. Seems like a number of gratuitous UI changes to annoy experienced end users as usual. Don't like the removal of titles from the task bar icons, now its not clear what's running, and what is a quick start icon. Added odds and ends utilities like a post it notes thingy. Removed the rather pointless side bar. Otherwise when running programs the look and act like this did on Vista. I am running on a very plain Dell, so no fancy hardware to test, so no driver troubles. Has run for a couple of days without crashing so far (Vista would crash about every single two days on this machine, Win2008 in no way crashed).
AndyD: I have seven installed on an old MacBook running under VMWare. The response is as expected but it appears like a slightly altered Vista. I notice that M$oft isn't bragging about anything specific, so my first reaction was "Oh! that's it?" I guess this really is the future of desktop PCs wether we like it or not. Not impressed at first, but we'll see.
darryl: Upgrading to Win 7 didn't work for me,
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Office 2007, Firefox,
Office 2007 Download, Warhammer online and Steam. I was most impressed when right after the install there was a new video driver offered on Windows Update and it installed without a reboot. Even now deciding if I like the new taskbar in icon mode or classic mode. I genuinely like that you can pin apps to it. Seems concerning the same speed as Vista, but I have a quite fast machine. E8500 8GB Ram. 64bit OS.
puppet: i received the blue screen of [death] following about 5 hours and havnt had it since :P
Chip wrote: I must admit I was nervously excited about Windows seven, hoping that it would be what Vista was supposed to be. And yet, it seems— well—fine. I'm scouring the web and most reviews are concerning the same. Sigh. Also unfortunately I am seeing that you can find a number of bloggers having troubles (some are noted in this comment section). I was hoping for a home run, but it seems Windows seven is merely a base hit. Bummer.
Andre Da Costa: You can read my review at the following link: www.activewin.com/reviews/previews/windows7beta/. Microsoft has done a truly excellent work with this release.
notafan: Utilizing seven since Saturday morning and not the least bit impressed since it took all with the things I don't like about Vista and made them worse. I would like to thank MS for the download saving me the money I would otherwise waste buying this abortion later. How come it reminds me of Mr. Creosote?
John: I downloaded the 32-bit beta and have had no trouble making use of it on my aluminum MacBook with Boot Camp. As a dedicated Mac user, I nevertheless have to agree that the new taskbar/dock thingy is better than not only the old Windows taskbar, but even better than the original [Mac OS X] Dock.
Please keep the responses coming. I will do at least one more post like this one.
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