Its my weakness to test the latest softwares.. I managed to get almost all the beta and pre-beta of Vista and just like that I managed to get a copy of Windows 7. I downloaded it myself with my stupid wireless card and it took my 5 full days to finish the download. Ok now, about the OS, I cannot say that I got what I expected from Microsoft. I installed it only 3 hours ago, and the things that are changed includes:
1) It includes Windows Media player 12. Its nice, with a better Now Playing window, but it lacks a better button to switch between Now Playing and Library.
2) RAM usage is less, even though not so less. It still takes 1.1 GB with all basic softwares installed (includes Nokia PC Suite, all drivers, Firefox, updates, Norton 2009 etc.) while it takes 1.5 in Vista.
3) The theme has changed, the taskbar entirely changed. By default you can see only the buttons, without labels. But it can be changed. I dint like this view, but fortunately it can be changed back. And its a big thick which doesnt give a good look. When the theme is classic, its horrible!!
4) It has a new theme selector. The view of themes has changed and also there is an option to change the background image in specific intervals. It lacks a turnoff button when we right-click the desktop.
5) It has got a new booting style. It has a glowing Windows Logo instead of nothing in Vista and the background aurora image of Vista is replaced by a better blue color aurora, unfortunately I could not take a screenshot of it.
6) It has got Desktop Gadgets without sidebar. But it has a bug, that is, it wont work when the UAC is turned off, which normally people dont like turned on! The gadgets will be floating on the desktop.
7) If we move a window to the top of the monitor, it will maximize automatically, and if we click and drag the title bar of maximized window, it will be back to normal. Also for multidisplay, if we move a window to left/right it will arrange itself to that side. Its really a good feature.
8 ) The taskbar preview is much improved. All the explorer windows will be on single button and if we keep mouse over it, we can see all the open windows and we can get a preview of that alone if we keep the mouse over it for sometime. At that time all other windows will go transparent. Its also a nice feature
10) Interface has improved, certain technical terms has been removed. There is an option to remove the notification for all applications separately.
11) It has all other features like 3d-Flip as in Vista
12) It doesnt have an Email application, Movie Maker and some other applications also.
13) Documents and Settings changed to Library, which include Document Library, Music Library, Videos Library and Pictures Library.
14) When maximized, Window has the transparency unlike in Vista 15) My personal favorite, it shows both time and date in the taskbar
16) It has a Send Feedback button near the close button of every window through which we can directly send our feedback to Microsoft.
I found several bugs and also the entire explorer crashed when I tried to add songs to the Media Player library. I already forwarded a huge report to Microsoft and some suggestions to the Microsoft Forums. If they are really serious about this release, trust me, Windows 7 will rock. It will be the best OS. I am impressed with the work, that too in short span of 2 years.
1) It includes Windows Media player 12. Its nice, with a better Now Playing window, but it lacks a better button to switch between Now Playing and Library.
2) RAM usage is less, even though not so less. It still takes 1.1 GB with all basic softwares installed (includes Nokia PC Suite, all drivers, Firefox, updates, Norton 2009 etc.) while it takes 1.5 in Vista.
3) The theme has changed, the taskbar entirely changed. By default you can see only the buttons, without labels. But it can be changed. I dint like this view, but fortunately it can be changed back. And its a big thick which doesnt give a good look. When the theme is classic, its horrible!!
4) It has a new theme selector. The view of themes has changed and also there is an option to change the background image in specific intervals. It lacks a turnoff button when we right-click the desktop.
5) It has got a new booting style. It has a glowing Windows Logo instead of nothing in Vista and the background aurora image of Vista is replaced by a better blue color aurora, unfortunately I could not take a screenshot of it.
6) It has got Desktop Gadgets without sidebar. But it has a bug, that is, it wont work when the UAC is turned off, which normally people dont like turned on! The gadgets will be floating on the desktop.
7) If we move a window to the top of the monitor, it will maximize automatically, and if we click and drag the title bar of maximized window, it will be back to normal. Also for multidisplay, if we move a window to left/right it will arrange itself to that side. Its really a good feature.
8 ) The taskbar preview is much improved. All the explorer windows will be on single button and if we keep mouse over it, we can see all the open windows and we can get a preview of that alone if we keep the mouse over it for sometime. At that time all other windows will go transparent. Its also a nice feature
10) Interface has improved, certain technical terms has been removed. There is an option to remove the notification for all applications separately.
11) It has all other features like 3d-Flip as in Vista
12) It doesnt have an Email application, Movie Maker and some other applications also.
13) Documents and Settings changed to Library, which include Document Library, Music Library, Videos Library and Pictures Library.
14) When maximized, Window has the transparency unlike in Vista 15) My personal favorite, it shows both time and date in the taskbar
16) It has a Send Feedback button near the close button of every window through which we can directly send our feedback to Microsoft. I found several bugs and also the entire explorer crashed when I tried to add songs to the Media Player library. I already forwarded a huge report to Microsoft and some suggestions to the Microsoft Forums. If they are really serious about this release, trust me, Windows 7 will rock. It will be the best OS. I am impressed with the work, that too in short span of 2 years.
