Introduction
Here is a response to an article I read on Microsoft Windows 7.
Windows 7 Beta 1
I have loaded Windows 7 onto my fathers workstation and my laptop.
Laptop:
Running noticeably faster than Windows Vista and equivalent to Windows XP if not faster which is one hell of an improvement.
The affects graphics wise and functionality is improved nothing feels like
it has been reduced from XP or Vista's functionality and the response
of these features is great! All drivers were found on install and the
Windows 7 Update feature works allot more in my favor of not annoying
me and letting me customize easily how I am notified of new updates.
Desktop:
I got my father to do an upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7, all was
well for a little while now he is getting a blue screen of death
(BSOAD) a fair bit, done some research appears to be drivers issues or
Anti-Virus programs incompatible with Windows 7. That's fine there not
generic programs they are meant to be built accustomed to the operating
system so there are some workarounds on the net so all should be fine.
I think its to be expected to having BSOAD's at this point in
development as its the testing phase for Microsoft. I'd rather have
these problems now than on release day!
Thoughts:
The reason the performance is so good in Windows 7 I believe is that the
account team is not in control of the programmers deadlines!
Windows
Vista was only released due to the account team, the engineers knew it
was not ready and said so in some news reports but yet it was still
released and all the bugs fixed after release.
This time feels different, the team have released a public Beta of an
operating system, has that ever been done in Microsoft's books before?
Having this OS out to so many people for free is one hell of a testing
tool, any issues that people have and sent that annoying error report
will actually be looked at and updates made readily available and
implemented before release. I like that, that means I dont have to wait
for 1 year for a service pack to fix bugs that should have been fixed
in testing phase.
Well done to Microsoft I say, Windows 7 is the best OS to date that I
have used for sure and it won't be the last as every OS update/upgrade
is building on the strengths of the past operating systems. I do hope
the Open Source community give Microsoft a run for there money at some
stage as they have the community power to develop faster than Microsoft
but have not quite got how to harness that power yet. When the day
comes competition will be very interesting.
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3 comments:
Interesting Article. its refreshing that after 20 years of abuse, you still do things for the benefit of Microsoft.
theres still some time to wait yet, but windows 7 may actually turn all those die hard XP fans onto a newer OS.
Johno
My experince is that it was slower than XP on my six month old machine and iver all thought was it jsut a dressed up version of XP. What was so compleling about it?
Un-convinced
Hey Guys, appreciate the comments.
The thing I love about this OS is its Window management, unreal but so simple ideas.
If I press Windows Key+Left my window will take half the size of my screen to the left same concept to the right. Also Windows Key+Shift+Left will chuck this window to my left monitor.
This makes multi-tasking so much easier and I wish we had Windows 7 at work just for that functionality. Hopefully it can be ported to Windows XP since XP is still a strong OS.
Windows 7 however will become allot better in terms of performance when you have 4+ cores according to a few reviews I have read. So really depends on what you want to do, if XP still does everything you want it to I would stick with it too.
But having the functionality built in like the Windows management makes a huge difference to my productivity I have found.
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