Windows 7 Beta Observations and Screenshots

[whs]

From all I can see, W7 is a little tweaking here and there of Vista - and not a new OS. Now that may be good because it does not alienate people and it provides for more stability. But some of the presentations I have seen from the MS architects of future systems, the world is going to look a lot more different in a few years. The real problem is the customers that want to hang on to what they have - question of inertia. The long lasting success of XP is now working against progress.

[v3loc1ty]

once get an external HD, ill switch over to 7

[tweakwindows]

But I am sure that most of the XP users will switch to Windows 7 soon after the release as Windows 7 stable and faster with more feature.

[seti]

where can I get the beta its the 9th and can't find it anywhere

[tweakwindows]

According to Windows 7 site you need to wait till the 9th afternoon.And I think you set your time to pacific time.

Best thing is,keep watching Windows 7 site.

[seti]

thanks tweakwindows, we on gmt expect the the 9th to start at 00.00 hours and as there are so few copies available just wanted to get it before they all go

[tweakwindows]

^Yes,only 2.5 million copies are available from MS.

[alsiladka]

A big update guys


Observations:
Added Janurary 10

* Fastest speeds while copying to external drive. I am getting 33.5kbps while copying files from my computer to my external. This is 10% than Vista, and i dont remember XPs speed, but i dont think it was this fast.

* The progress bar indicator background in the taskbar buttons is another example of productivy tweaks incorporated in Windos 7. To those complaining that XP is lighter in RAM usage and in raw bechmarks, it is such tweaks which need to be taken into consideration. The RAM usage and the raw benchmarks would take a hit due to cosmetic changes like these, but in real world use, in XP, this would mean a 2 3 second each time you want to check the progress, but over here, you are not wasting your 3 seconds having to deviate from your current task at hand and checking the progress!

* "Safely Remove Hardware" functionality has also received the much needed easy of use upgrade. I am attaching screenshots to make it clear.

* "New Folder" button is back in the Explorer task pane, after it had been removed in Vista. I missed this small button a lot in Vista!
* Some new control panel applets like Location Sensor, Credentials hint at some interesting possibilities once they are made use of! Screenshots attached.

* Even after nearly 2 weeks of use, i have to add that the menus still open as quickly as they did the first day! Really really responsive!

* The Ribbon interface in the Paint application is really a huge improvement for the application, i just hope they would have added more functionality to Paint. Check the screenshots.




The New Menu in Paint makes thing visually clear for the user.



Easy to understand visual representation of the different kinds of brushes!



The new safely remove hardware popup makes it clear which devices are attached. No more removals by mistake!



A proper safely remove hardware applet!



Explorer now tells you which program is using a file instead of just saying that the file cannot be denied because it is open in another program!




List of formats supported by Windows Media Player out of the box!



Sensors which can detect the Location and Orientation! A smarter AI is not a distant future now



A few of my credentials were already recorded in this manager like my Windows Live ID. Lets see how much of a difference does this make to out computing.



Probably will search for Windows 7 computers in the network and provide easy assitance setup.



I have never used Media Center, but updated guides is always welcome

[tweakwindows]

Many informative screenshots.Nice hear that it's running ultra fast.

[alsiladka]

I have added a screenshot review of the amazing Sticky Notes app in Windows 7, though i felt it deserved an individual topic of its own.
Do check it out over here - http://www.winvistaclub.com/forum/wi...get-wasnt.html