Windows 7 beta 1 coming soon; already reviewed
The first official beta of Microsoft’s knight in shining GUI will soon be issued but reviews are already beginning to pop up around the internet. No, it’s not the first look we’ve had of the upcoming OS but it is the first in a line of official betas we’ll see previewed before launch-time. Of course everyone’s first impression is “wow, it looks like Vista,” but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Vista’s problems at this point after all, are most definitely not cosmetic; in fact many enjoy Vista’s clean lines and organization. Vista’s problem is still a bumpy launch and a stigma. With Windows 7, Microsoft no doubt hopes to put the Vista folly behind it and the company really couldn’t be in a better position to do so – it most certainly shouldn’t have been hard for Microsoft to discover which elements people disliked most about Vista. We can only hope that beyond building a quality OS, Microsoft pays attention to feedback from Windows 7 beta testers and general internet buzz during the beta process. If one thing can be learned from Vista, it is that the internet can be a merciless critic and literally destroy a product if enough complaints and ridicule are issued. Vista isn’t enough proof for you? Ask Palm.
For all:
I really need all the OSs. The most popular, of course.
In my very common contemporanean configuration of the most complete OS ever my dual core duo with 2Gig and 260 HD I run in native mode all.
Of course I never use Windows for mission critical application. It is useful for
has 98% of all the software market. Linux for the same reason that every body use it. All in native mode.
Only in OSX that is possible .
Hopefully this beta works well in
Cheers,
iC
Josh I think more people say that about
Windows than unix. Unix serves it’s purpose
And is used for it’s reliabilty. As I think you know.
Looks too much like Vista…guessing probably runs about the same…never thought I would be content on an elderly operating system (XP), but so long as MS keeps putting crap out there, XP is for me.
@Josh
Wow – I seriously question your sheepskin by dissing UNIX so badly. 30 or so years of hardening & you apparently don’t see the value? God help us if banks & critical systems were to be run entirely on MS OS’s. I think you are either extremely naïve or stupid. Just having a degree doesn’t make you the smartest guy on the planet. Get over yourself.
Page full of dumbasses!
Win 7 is the same as Vista on benchmarks. It’s a stripped down beta you damn kooks, so strip down Vista and get the same results. You chimps ever bother to tweak anything or too stupid to do much more than power on/off?
Same boot speed, same shutdown speed, same superfetch performance=placebo affect works on dumb monkies.
I’ve messed around with a couple of the pre-betas and I currently have Beta 1 (build 7000) on my other partition. I like it a lot and haven’t run into any problems whatsoever yet. Most of everything installs correctly, the homegroup setup makes networking and media sharing a breeze, and the super taskbar or whatever it’s called is just much more convenient. Can’t wait to see its progression.
@Dtest54
I do see the value of Unix and I do see the problems with Windows. I simply do not like client OS’s descended from Unix. For server side stuff Unix is great.
@Xebra
I’m neither naive or stupid, nor do I think I’m the smartest person in the world, far from it. I was simply offering a different viewpoint from those who think Mac OS X is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I run a mixed shop and the latest OS X updates illuminate some of the problems this OS and attendant programs have faced: http://www.macworld.com/article/137764/2008/12/osx1056_bugsandfixes.html?t=101.
If you do email for a living, there is no program which substitutes Outlook/Exchange … if you happen to use industry standard Word and Excel. (Please don’t talk to me about attachments only as a work around).
My point isn’t to bash OS X … there are things it does beautifully that ANY version of windows can only dream of doing as well … but it, like all OS’s, has it’s own problems.
@Doc Holiday:
Your statement proves that you have never seen a Vista/7 benchmark comparison, and that you have never seen 7 in action.
All three things you claim are “the same” are, in fact, faster on 7.
Osx is still king!!
Thanks for the thumbs up on this BG…I can’t wait til the release. And for those claiming it looks like Vista…well it is from MS and it is an upgrade of their old OS so….what else did you expect it to look like? Don’t all the OSx look the same? So what is wrong with MS keeping it simple so people do not have to familiarize themselves all over again, but at the same time vastly improving the OS in every aspect??
@Josh…so you can get graduate degrees in computer science that don’t require you to know grammar? cool.
@Illa
No need to be insulting. I wasn’t personally insulting anyone with any of the comments I made, just expressing my distaste for everything Unix and Unix-like.
Apple is in trouble.
Anyone I know who has used Windows 7 has had not one complaint.
Microsoft will climb back over 90% and Apple will go down
I may switch back to Windows