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United States3824 Posts
For those of you that didn't know (or didn't care) the windows 7 open beta was released on Friday. After many hours of waiting and waiting and waiting I was finally able to finish the download and booted the OS on my MacBook. Besides the fact that Bootcamp doesn't support Windows 7 and I might not be able to get back to OSX, everything seems to be running fine.
Windows 7 is supposed to have lots of fun new features, though as of the past half and hour I have only found a few. For one thing, the toolbar in the lower right hand corner has been consolidated a bit, and the arrow that used to pop out to the left to show the hidden tray icons now pops up. Yay! most of the layout as far of the UI follows that model. Multiple web browser windows open at the same time are consolidated into pop out menus etc... Other than that, not much that I have found. Its supposed to be faster and less memory intensive though that was something that everyone already knew. I can use Windows Aero though that is nothing knew from vista. All in all it seems solid, though I probably haven't been running it long enough to hit any bumps in the road.
Kinda a boring writeup , more to come if I find something interesting.
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can u post some screenshots?
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How is the speed compared to Vista/XP?
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Netherlands6142 Posts
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screenshots would be appreciated!
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Kentor
United States5784 Posts
i miss quick launch and show desktop near the orb 
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On January 12 2009 07:08 Kentor wrote:i miss quick launch and show desktop near the orb
You can always just use Windows Key + D to show the desktop; I've found that to be much quicker.
I've also tried Windows 7, and aside from the drivers for my wireless card not working, I've found it to be a nice follow-up to Vista. The new UI is pretty similar to Vista's, in all honesty, but that's not really a bad thing. I'll have a better chance to actually mess with the other stuff once I get my wireless card working.
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Kentor
United States5784 Posts
On January 12 2009 07:32 toipspinserve wrote:Show nested quote +On January 12 2009 07:08 Kentor wrote:i miss quick launch and show desktop near the orb You can always just use Windows Key + D to show the desktop; I've found that to be much quicker. I've also tried Windows 7, and aside from the drivers for my wireless card not working, I've found it to be a nice follow-up to Vista. The new UI is pretty similar to Vista's, in all honesty, but that's not really a bad thing. I'll have a better chance to actually mess with the other stuff once I get my wireless card working.
yes but when your hand is not near the keyboard :D it's annoying. guess i'll have to get used to clicking bottom right
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Just don't just 7's performance you'll make Microsoft mad! lol they really don't like it when people review their products when they are in beta or still only RC I have win 7x64 seems to be nice few nice features here and there Didn't install it on my laptop because i doubt dell has a x64 vista driver for things like media center or touch pad so i'd loose a small amount of functionality
Why you miss quick launch the pin system is just like quick lauch but for everything just start up your program and then right click and pin it to the taskbar.
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On January 12 2009 07:32 toipspinserve wrote:Show nested quote +On January 12 2009 07:08 Kentor wrote:i miss quick launch and show desktop near the orb You can always just use Windows Key + D to show the desktop; I've found that to be much quicker.
And what if you do not have Windows Key?
On topic now: Why is Microsoft releasing yet another Windows (before Vista even settled in) when XP is perfectly viable so far?
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On January 12 2009 08:30 Manit0u wrote:Show nested quote +On January 12 2009 07:32 toipspinserve wrote:On January 12 2009 07:08 Kentor wrote:i miss quick launch and show desktop near the orb You can always just use Windows Key + D to show the desktop; I've found that to be much quicker. And what if you do not have Windows Key? On topic now: Why is Microsoft releasing yet another Windows (before Vista even settled in) when XP is perfectly viable so far?
Well, you can always just click the little button on the right side of the taskbar if you really want to see the desktop. I can see where Kentor is coming from, though.
And just because XP is still viable, doesn't mean that Microsoft doesn't want to make money by releasing operating systems with more features (that also have the benefit of looking really polished). If you want to stick with tried-and-true XP, that's fine, but the new features such as Windows Media Center 7 definitely prompt new OS releases.
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United States8167 Posts
I still don't get all the Vista hate.
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vista sucks, its not hate its plain truth.
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On January 12 2009 08:48 Raithed wrote:
vista sucks, its not hate its plain truth.
I'm just curious, but how much experience do you have with Vista?
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On January 12 2009 08:46 Ideas wrote:
I still don't get all the Vista hate.
i agree. im using vista and have been since this summer. i havent heard much negative toward it lately so i thought the vista-hate bandwagon stopped being cool.
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On January 12 2009 08:51 toipspinserve wrote:Show nested quote +On January 12 2009 08:48 Raithed wrote:
vista sucks, its not hate its plain truth. I'm just curious, but how much experience do you have with Vista?
I guess enough to follow other haters.
Screen shots or it didnt happen^^
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On January 12 2009 08:55 skuj wrote:i agree. im using vista and have been since this summer. i havent heard much negative toward it lately so i thought the vista-hate bandwagon stopped being cool.
it is one big hassle OS imo. problems i've run into: dvd burning made difficult, webcam won't work, wireless card won't work, slow in general operations. the hate is merited. it's a slow OS and still has a bunch of compatibility issues.
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United States3824 Posts
Thank go you all jumped on Vista or else I would have to update lol. There is now a button in the lower right corner next to the clock that returns to the desktop.
To TopSpinServe: Microsoft is getting back on the three year cycle for their operating systems. Because XP was so memory intensive (just like Vista was when it came out, crazy!) Microsoft thought the best course of action was to release bigger service packs
As far as speeds, I can't really say for sure. There wasn't enough room on my Desktop hard drive to partition (my desktop is currently running Vista SP1) and I didn't really want to update to Windows 7 for all of the hassle that would come with it (downgrading in august, no Windows 7 drivers for my mouse etc)
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I tried it, installed everything. the whole thing is just vista sp2, ms is learning from blizzard to milk $ from public......
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EPT
