I wasnt very keen on trying the beta for Windows 7 up until one of my buddies mentioned about it. The reviews looked pretty good, but after all the pain from battling with Windows Vista, i thought it would be a waste of my time trying out this new OS. I recently purchased a Macbook (not Pro) and had upgraded it to 4 gb ram so that i can run my Windows XP and applications while enjoying the MAC interface using VMWare Fusion (2.x).
Started downloading the beta (which i heard some rumours that the download was going to be slow as well as Microsoft taking the site offline in early hours). Either ways, i did start the download during the night time (US), so it really did go fast eventually. The DVD iso image was a whopping 2.4gb..jeez...
Copied over the iso image to a USB external hard drive so i could boot using ISO image from VMWare Fusion in MAC. I also selected the type of OS as Windows Server 2008 (32bit). The default HDD type is SCSI, for safety reasons (driver issues) i changed this to IDE (you have to delete the SCSI and add a new IDE). Allocated 100 gb (not all at once) to the hard drive. The installation process was super fast. All i remember is telling it to boot from the image and a few things like new Install or upgrade, as well as the CD key. I have to give that to the WIndows 7 team that the instalation went with out any hassles and was much faster than any of the previous Windows versions.
The interface seems so much Like Windows Vista. It has a much better selection of themes and backgrounds can be slideshowed (change at specified intervals automatically). IE 8 looks pretty sweet and fast to load. Some of the new features for browsing and resizing windows are very cool. I think the WIndows 7 team really did their homework from bad feedbacks about how Vista was so slow.
New features like Accerelerators help improve search on the internet more productive and faster. Two problems i have so far with Windows 7
a. I run it on VMWare , so i dont know if its because of that. The sound card on my macbook is connected to the VMWare machine. All other OSes like XP, Vista can recognize and play sounds, but on Windows 7, the sound card does show up, but does not play any sounds...Bug ???, driver issue?
b. I downloaded the free beta edition of Kaspersky labs Antivirus (one of the Recommended 3, AVG, Norton are the others). It did install succesffully but its not able to update its antivirus database. It seems connecting to the update server, but then it errors out...cant expect much when its free beta software...
Over all i am impressed with the performance enhancements which were lacking in Vista...Good job Windows 7 team.
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