Windows 7 first look: More than just Vista fixes
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversWindows 7 won’t be officially available to the public until next week—Thursday, August 6, to be exact—when MSDN and Technet subscribers will finally get the chance to download the software legitimately and activate their copies with product keys.
It’s the first step on a long rollout that will end October 22 when the software will be available for purchase in retail boxes and on new PCs.
I’ve been able to get a head start, using the official RTM build (7600.16385). For the past 10 days, I’ve been methodically installing and testing the final release of Windows 7 on a wide range of desktop and notebook configurations in my home and office. I’ve done upgrades and clean installs, with and without the Easy Transfer utility, using different editions in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. I’ll have a through review of Windows 7 next week, including a deep dive into its most interesting new features. Today, I want to offer some first impressions and an image gallery based on my initial experience with these final bits.
Windows 7 isn’t perfect, but it is greatly improved over its predecessors in many ways. Calling it an “evolutionary” release in comparison to Windows Vista is probably a fair characterization. However, if you assume that Windows 7 is simply “Vista, fixed,” you’ll miss many small but meaningful changes and several large ones that give Windows 7 its own identity. In daily use, I continue to be impressed by the attention to detail that went into the Windows 7 iterations of features that are part of every Windows user’s daily routine. I’ve also found some hidden gems, which I’ll spotlight here and in next week’s full review.
From a design standpoint, Windows 7 makes the 2001-vintage XP design look downright primitive. Switching between Vista and 7 is less jarring, but the improvements in consistency and visual presentation are still noteworthy and make 7 feel more graceful and modern. The palette is softer, and many of the UI rough edges have been smoothed out.
Arguably, the visual presentation is just eye candy. The more important changes, as far as productivity is concerned, are those that improve usability. When I switch from Windows 7 to a PC running an earlier version of Windows (or, for that matter, running OS X or Ubuntu), I miss some of the window management tricks that I’ve come to rely on, including the ability to peek at thumbnails of open windows on the taskbar and to “snap” windows into position with a flick of the mouse.
Over several months of use, I’ve really come to appreciate Jump Lists, which are pop-up menus that can be summoned with a right-click on a taskbar icon (or, more easily, with a quick upward flick of the mouse. The default Jump List for a program allows you to see a list of recently used files and pin favorites to the menu.
I fully expect that some Windows veterans will grumble over a few of the changes in Windows 7. In some cases, those are just different approaches to design. In others, they reflect the Windows 7 learning curve. As I’ve discovered after six months of intense research, some new features take a while to adapt to. A few, like Libraries, which are the new default file-organization scheme in Windows Explorer, are deceptively complex and require some basic training before they can be used to best advantage.
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Comments(20)
what a useless post.
once you will test win 7, you feel like it is empty, nothing special at all, it is just
vista again with a different skins only, nothing else, all this should be a service pack 3
for vista.
win vista, is more elegant, and became also 10x faster with sp2.
win 7 eat the
same amount of memory as win vista, and memory managment is the same, only the boot time
is a bit faster.
if you switch to win 7, you will have to wait for a service pack 1, and 2 and 3 and 4,
because it is again a new os, with many future unknown bugs, errors, and blue sceen of
death.
even though you switch over to windows 7, when looking at vista's launch date, windows 7
is a major improvement. there isnt any major bugs yet, transition from vista to 7 is
smooth and everything stays intact. i only had a couple of drivers which had problems but
other than that, 99% of my stuff worked the same way as vista, and does the same job vista
did, only smoother and faster. i dont see a service pack necessary reason to upgrade.
im useing vista and windows7 on the same pc with the same stuff installed on both, for
the time. i switch once a day so i use both for the stuff and time! and guess what:
windows 7 is and will be faster than vista was or will be. if they dont like vista or
windows seven, go back to your win2000 or 98, but please quiet wining, because some
freakin apple hired blogger says win7 or vista is crab! freakin babies!!
mac os suxx! so do apple fanboys!
i been using win 7 rtm for a week the diferences are faster (start up, internet explorer
and windows explorer) and no a sigle crash yet
vista once in a while restart
all of a sudden for no reason
no doubt, win 7 is superior to vista
same old sh!t from apple fanboys. the better m$ does the more they cry. then again i'd
cry too with its double priced hardware and limited software.
what a useless post.
it is just marketing to promote the os.
the
fact is that it is that win7 is just a vista with a makeover
what plannet are you from?? comparing vista to win7 you must be a hack moron from apple.
get you facts right before you open your blow hole.
win7 is good but not that good i took it off after a week, still the blue screen,and if
it dont like what your doing, like replacing some files it will shut it self down, it
should have been called killer 7,
m big fan of windows 7.. but they can do better.. i love windows os but is still laggin
behid apple technology... i also got mac with snow leopard beta which is another gr8 os by
mac... they actually used new technoly rather than files old one....
windows
rocks but they should advance technolgy like file compression, image mounter etc....
rock on windows 7 \m/
win7 not provide more than just the functionality that has made the task bar.
the
performance in games, is exactly the same as the vista
i don´t know if hide
something more, but if this is the case, why do you hide?
lots of m$ brain washed zomies here..
at least have an open mind & for once
"think" before blabbering non-sense
windows server 2008 r2 blows the consumer desktop version of the os out of the
water....use server edition as your main os and see the difference!!! its sick!!
why is sidebar gone? thats really pathetic!
taskbar is weird...
it's just windows vista service pack 3.
i have been using the rtm release for a little while but i think the pricing for windows
7 is not justifiable because in real terms we are getting service pack 3 for vista. it is
evolutionary not evolutionary. it is still better than vista but would be great waste of
money to go out and buy.i mean it. check it out and pause for a while and think about the
vista and windows 7 usage experience and you will see what i mean.
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