Today, i have seen a new comment in my inbox. Martin Schmidler has written that there are the first impressions of Windows 7 on NeoWin forum. I am excited to see this. I read the forum post. But i saw that the new version is not much different than Vista. I think Microsoft didn’t take his lesson from Vista. Here is the forum post;
So here we’re at it, again
Over the weekend I finally managed to play with the build…. but disappointed.
One my primary machine, it asked for my SATA driver (never happened when installing Vista, as my drives were set as IDE in BIOS). After adding the driver from my USB thumb drive it would finally install. It didn’t boot after first restart, however.
On my laptop it installed perfectly, but with no driver support for the video card. After numerous tries I gave up in the end, so Aero is now left in the dark.
Oh well, so there’s nothing to show.
The build is 6.1.6519.
The GUI, as much of you have guessed, is very much like Vista. I don’t know if once the right video card driver is in place whether there will be flashy stuffs to surprise me. The system is very responsive, using barely 480MB of memory after boot.
Gadgets are now integrated into explorer. You can right click on desktop and select “Add Gadget” or “Hide Gadget”. There is a new gadget called “Windows Media Center” that displays now playing information from the WMC. On the same menu, “Display” is added above “Personalization” which gives you direct access to display DPI settings. The page is much more polished than the one in Vista.
The start menu features a pin besides each item. Clicking on it toggles pinning/unpinning the item. Search in explorer is now states where you search within (usually being within the folder, as in Vista). You can now, however, adjust the size of the search box.
XAML fonts, called the “Composite Fonts” are now added to the font folder. Perhaps WPF will be much more prominent in this release. It’s disappointing that I don’t have Aero running, or otherwise there might be some interesting stuffs to see.
A new application is added, dubbed the “XPS Viewer”, no surprises, either.
Then finally, something interesting came up: the feedback tool. The feedback tool lists the “pillars” of Win 7. You can see that Microsoft is aiming to fine tune this release as the case in XP rather than technological advancement as in 2K. highlights include”network aware”, with improved connection tools and detections. It will have the ability to detect which network you’re in and switch your settings and devices accordingly; With Live account, you can carry your IE settings and favorites with you; Gadget data caching; New Calculator, Paint, and Wordpad using WPF; install to desktop in 10 mins with only 1 reboot; instant streaming; better battery mileage, etc. All descriptions are scenario-based, so what will actually turn up is still yet to know.
Oh.. how could I miss this. A new boot screen does show up, finally. A full screen Vista-logon screen like boot screen with a beam scrolling across the whole screen near the bottom. Looks nice but reminds me of Win9x (well since XP we’ve been in the “dark”, so surprised to see such a bright boot screen)!
Here is the source : Neowin Forums
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January 23rd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
It is just a first relase, it will get better for sure.
January 24th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
While I know next to nothing about computer programming, it seems to me as though all of his impressions are based on the user interface. From what I’ve read about Win 7 and new OS developement, the user interface is the last thing that will get tweaked. In the meantime, they just use what they already have. The flash and eye candy will all be changed in the last few months, so why does this guy even care about it right now? He should be looking at what’s under the hood first. There isn’t going to be a major overhaul from Vista in this, but rather a slimmed down, yet more powerful version of Vista.
And does he really expect that a release of an OS that’s more than 2 years from launch going to include the drivers for every piece of hardware and video card??
January 25th, 2008 at 4:38 am
Disappointing? MS didn’t get a chance to do much to it yet. (But if Win7 would be anything like Vista, then I would call it disappointing.)
Here are screenshots: http://ctfblog.977mb.com/wordpress/?p=830 Typical for an M1 release to be very similar to the previous version. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Windows_Longhorn_Build_3683.png for example is an M3 of Vista. Looks like XP right? That’s because major UI changes only began in M4.
So before calling Windows 7 disappointing, wait and see if once it moves out of alpha if it still has as many problems as or looks like Vista.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Remember the early versions of vista? They looked almost exactly like vista. Go to (http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/longhorn_alpha.asp) to see one of the first versions of Vista. Look familiar? At first glance, it is exactly like XP. Now, Vista is completely different looking. It will be a long time before we see anything unique to Windows 7. Why are people disappoined already?
January 27th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
i completly agree with otto…in everyday use, the UI isn´t that important, although i couldn´t live without vistas AERO
i expected “7″ to be less ressource-hungry…but it seems MS dind´t put very much work in that since vista..
January 28th, 2008 at 4:07 am
Sounds great for a milestone. They’re probably going to add the drivers last, so there’s not much to be disapointed about. WPF versions of Paint…? What the heck does that look like? I know Yahoo for Vista is all pretty, but for Windows Accessories? Now I like the idea of Explorer Gadgets. Does this mean we can remove the sidebar and still use our Gadgets? All in all, I’d like them to re-add a midi mapper and maybe the ability to record streaming media while it’s muted and still get the sounds while at the same time being able to listen to music without it interfering with the recording. That’d be friggin sweeeeet!
January 29th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
@chargleberry: dream on…MS would NEVER include such freaky details. I mean, nearly nobody uses half of the stuff thats in the accessories folder…
I´m still dreaming of an ultra-customizable Windows, so I can choose BEFORE booting, which GUI I need (e.g. ). Theres something AMD presented, you can turn on/off your additional graphics card in laptops while windows is running…
I hope MS includes something like that (on software- not harware-layer), so my laptop-battery lasts a bit longer and I really can do simple tasks as quick as possible. I mean such stuff you can do with the SideShow displays, this is the right direction, but not perfect.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:57 am
Im still on XP…but with Vista theme. I hope MS improves on this system. They need Virtual Desktops. My only problem so far is what kind of name is Windows 7?
February 1st, 2008 at 9:39 pm
It´s the version-number of Windows.
WinXP was NT-based Windows no.5, Vista was no. 6 (build no. 6000) and the next version is obiously 7.
Former codenames were Blackcomb (entitled by blackcomb mountains) and then Vienna (because the MS guys loved the view above the city…me too, I confess I´m a patriot ^^ )
February 5th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
As for the drivers maybe we need to wait for the release of win 7,because from what I’ve had it will have drivers for all devices manufactured before its release.
The other thing is that he doesn’t talk about of application intergration(major feature of future windows)
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:56 am
Who cares? Forget Microsoft and use engineered, professional operating systems like Solaris and not toys.
December 4th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Solaris is another OS which doesn’t compete with windows at a serios level, there is a reason they wen’t open source.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
I totally disagree, I have been using the beta for some time now and the upgrade from vista to w7 was flawless. I had 0 driver problems and everything is working great.
The OS seems stable and it’s all very intuitive, fast and has good features, this OS is going to be a very heavy contender to MAC OS.
You can now assume something like this: Vista = Windows ME, Windows 7 = XP SP1
And to the people using Solaris and other Unix/Linux based systems I would like to see you add special hardware like maybe a bluetooth keyboard, use media enhanced hardware, play a game… Mac OS maybe.. but a solution of using free BSD or Unix based for a home computer or work computer… it’s like going to work using a Deer Tractor… you will get there It will not fall apart on you but you will not have air conditioning, music or other enhancements.
Windows 7 is very good, it’s not at all what i was expecting and the only bad thing I have found so far is the support for CRT monitors, the font does not look good on them.