Windows 7 – A Few Days In
Posted on January 16th, 2009 by admin
I’ll start with the cons –
- IE crashes a lot. Also, it doesn’t work with some sites – in fact, editing in wordpress (the last released edition, not the current one) causes it to crash. It seems that IE8 isn’t ready for show time yet.
- There aren’t enough apps taking advantage of the multi-touch – all the cool demo’ed apps like multi touch photo app and the maps app with photo touch aren’t in yet – they are going to be in the full release. Makes it a little difficult to enjoy multi-touch fully.
- The taskbar takes a little bit of getting used to – it’s a huge hit in my eyes – however, its new and a bit different from what we’re all used to.
- Some installers don’t install as they don’t find Vista or XP, and they don’t work in compatibility mode either. This is to be expected in a Beta version – however, it still sucks.
To be frank – there aren’t that many cons. I’m having a ton of fun with Windows 7. The pros –
- The new Taskbar aka SuperBar just rocks – jumplists, the preview mode, having just one integrated taskbar + launch bar. A lot of things about it are cool. It’s just a big hit and really saves a ton of time.
- The multi-touch is really, really good. Sometimes when I want to close a window I just touch the screen instead of moving the mouse – and it does add a whole new dimension.
- I was about to buy Dragon Naturally Speaking to test out voice recognition when I found that Microsoft includes Speech Recognition software that’s really cool. I can start Internet Explorer, navigate to Microsoft.com and close it all with voice commands. There’s a lot more and I’m going to test it out and let you guys know how good Speech recognition is
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- The new libraries feature rocks. I can just add the 4-5 directories I use for music and they’re all in one place now.
- It looks really good. Its actually better looking than Vista.
- Its just very in tune with what I’d expect a new 2009 Operating system to be – better UI (such as the taskbar), jumps in technology (multi-touch) and runs fast. It runs faster than vista without a doubt, and boots up faster too.
- Most of the programs I wanted to use installed and ran just fine – Last.fm, WinRAR, the Journal, and a lot more.
My feeling overall is that it’s going to be a big hit. I’d thought it’d be a bit tough to keep to my resolution of keeping Windows 7 as my main OS – however, I’ll actually have fun doing it. I haven’t had a blue screen of death + IE is the only application that has crashed on me. I’ve had Vista since the Beta and there is no comparison – the Windows 7 Beta is better than Windows Vista SP1. Even if you count out the coolness of multi-touch. Its just a really good OS.
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