Windows 7 Rocks!!!

Now, that I have made it clear from the title of the post itself, that I am a big supporter of Windows 7 let me follow up this post with my own experiences with Windows 7. You can yourself download Windows 7 beta version here and test it out.

  The screenshot shows Windows 7 installed with AERO on my laptop. Now let me give some background of my laptop: it is a dual core machine with 1 Gig of RAM and had Windows Vista installed previously on it. It used to be painstakingly slow.

After doing a clean install of Windows 7, I could see a tremendous increase in speed. You might say that it is a clean version, which has no Visual Studios, thousands of media players and chat clients, Office and other crap in it. Yes, I agree, but still it is faster than a clean install of Windows Vista. Might be even faster than XP, though I can’t guarantee that!

So, the first thing I noticed was the speed and responsiveness and not the UI Improvements like better explorer, calculator, word pad, paint, libraries, taskbar, action center, notifications, UAC, icons, control panel etc etc etc. I came to notice all these improvements later on in due course.

Now after the install, it did not have the correct drivers for Video Graphics card of ATI Radeon, so my screen resolution was less. But still it did a decent job of detecting my Wifi, bluetooth, audio drivers. But it did not give me Aero and other decent UI Features. So, I got down to the job(which I did horribly): I installed all the drivers in XP compatibility mode and my machine complained. It now had good screen resolution, but had no audio, still no AERO, and was giving me the Blue screen of Death every time I shut down the machine. Then I uninstalled all the drivers and my machine came in 640 * 480 resolution with 256 colors. I could do nothing much with it. So, I decided to connect the machine to the internet. And whoa! it detects all the correct drivers and installs them out of the box. And it was fast, took me less than 5 minutes to get it all working once it was connected to Internet. Moral of the story: Don’t be a smart-ass, just connect your machine to the internet, and let it do the job. 

The software for this windows was made with one thing in mind: it should be stable, fast and “it should just work”. This is a better version of Windows Vista, with not much changes in the kernel. Infact, if you see the details, it has nearly the same number of services and processes as Windows Vista. The focus has been on making the computing experience better.

And I think, they have succeeded. World has never seen a more stable beta in the history of Software Releases. I think Windows 7 will be released before August since this beta expires on 1st August 2009. So, be ready for a release of Windows 7 before that.

Although, I am all praise for Windows 7, I still should say that I have managed to crash it five times now (but that was when I did not have the correct drivers). This is one Windows which you won’t be disappointed by… 

I have attached some screenshots to motivate you to try the beta :

 

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