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Hands-On With Windows 7's New Features
Barence writes "Microsoft has released the first pre-beta code of Windows 7, and PC Pro has a series of in-depth, hands-on examinations of all the new features. The revamped user interface has clearly gleaned more than a little inspiration from the Mac OS X Dock, but it goes further than the Apple concept with 'jumplists,' new gadgets and an updated system tray. The much-vaunted multi-touch controls were there to play with, and it seemed to work well. Networking has been given the full treatment, with new features HomeGroup and Libraries. Windows 7 debuts a new feature called Device Stage that has the potential to be unbelievably handy ... or a complete disaster. Finally, several new features could make PCs easier to manage and secure for IT departments, such as BitLocker To Go and Branch Cache." All in all, these features together lead some people to the conclusion that Windows 7 will "suck less than Vista" — that last link from reader ThinSkin, who also points to a related sampling of screenshots from the current iteration of Windows 7.
Shut up nub.
If it works on Windows Vista, it'll work in Windows 7. The move from Vista to Windows 7 we expect to be seamless.
In other words, the migration from XP to 7 will be as seamless as the migration from XP to Vista...
I'm wasting my mod-points already awarded to previous posters just to reply to this.
No, it very probably will NOT outperform XP.
If you want something that outperforms XP, try Windows 95, or Windows NT 4.
If you want something that runs 21st century software and games, buy Vista or Windows 7.
I can't stand all this "will it be EVEN SLOWER" crap. Of course it will, but who gives a shit? Computers are getting faster MUCH MUCH more quickly than operating systems are getting slower. I did a degree in computer science 10 years ago using a computer which had less RAM and Mhz than my *phone* does now!
I wish people would stop moaning that any given operating system is 3 or 4% slower than the previous version. Do you really want to go back to using Windows 3.1 just because it's slightly faster? I sure as hell don't.
CTRL-C and CTRL-V
Hmm.. still taking hours.. latest updates installed. What's that? internet explorer has stopped responding again? I don't understand why all my programs are now unstable. Is it the software, or Vista?
Seriously, the only people claiming vista is fine with no performance problems are the people who don't use vista as their main machine. Try spending a day at work on a Vista machine. You'll see what we're talking about.
Belief? Hope? Preference?The Existential Vortex
My guess: ME
I call it: Moron Edition
Obama's legacy: (N)othing (S)ecure (A)nywhere and (T)error (S)imulation (A)dministration
It's a huge hassle and the only reason Apple gets away with it is because their solution, iTunes, is actually pretty darn good.. and it helps to have a previous technology to launch it with (QuickTime) and additional services that tie into it (iTunes Store).
Ugh. I hate iTunes, it's the worst part of dealing with an iPod and the reason I haven't gotten one myself (my wife has one). It's slow, buggy, crashes, and I'll be damned if I can figure out how to actually get a song onto or off the iPod (oh wait, can't get them back off.. thanks Apple!).
and anecdotally, you're full of shit.
let me guess.
my 10 year old printer doesnt work in Vista.
(blame the OS for a manufacturer not writing drivers, umm, no)
my 10 year old program didnt run under vista (except that if it was properly written it would, funny i have MS Money 1995 running on 64bit vista)
(and again, blame an OS for not supporting improperly written software and a software company that says "upgrade" instead of issuing a patch? ummm, no)
my system is slow and crappy because im still running on 512mb of RAM.
(do you blame your kid for growing up and outgrowing clothes too?)
Wow what's it like to be retarded?
I'll grant you it's had some silly issues under windows sometimes but they're usually fixed pretty quick in my experience at least. Honestly how hard is it to drag and drop songs onto the iPod in iTunes? or select the iPod, highlight a song or songs and press the Delete key?
The "high performance" OS - or distro, if you want to be pedantic about it, supports a small subset of hardware and software.
The Windows PC can be found pretty much everywhere, doing pretty much everything, on hardware that has no standard configuration.
Sorry, I seem to have forgotten, could you remind us where the PPC/SPARC/Itanium/ARM/MIPS/eee701 versions of Vista are on sale?