Lallmatie.com Blog » new version http://lallmatie.com/blog Not rants, these are things that must be told! Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:46:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Windows 7 – Finally a worthy successor of Windows XP? – Part 1 http://lallmatie.com/blog/2009/02/06/windows-7-finally-a-worthy-successor-of-windows-xp-part-1/ http://lallmatie.com/blog/2009/02/06/windows-7-finally-a-worthy-successor-of-windows-xp-part-1/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:23:12 +0000 bhoot http://lallmatie.com/blog/?p=30 I was eager to try Windows Vista. It was to be the new Windows that Microsoft has spent to much time developing and whom we saw many previews and release candidates. Needless to say that like many people I was quite frustrated in the beginning with UAC (User Account Control) that needlessly pops up everytime you do something that requires administrator priviledges – I turned that off. And that Windows Explorer never saving the view I specified in any folder – all too annoying… Games working SLOWER than Windows XP, huge memory requirements… But it had advantages – it was more stable, system recovery was efficient, Direct X 10 gaming, and with Service Pack 1, was FASTER! It did become my default Windows Installation (on my dual boot) until it crashed…. to never be repaired… and I didn’t want to do a fresh install… I went back to Windows XP with Service Pack 3…

Then came Windows 7 Beta 1. My hopes were up again. It sounded like Windows 98 (Windows 7) had come for Windows 95 (Vista), or Windows XP SP2 over original XP… It’s FAST was my first impression… and many of the small annoying features of Vista were not gone (they got corrected)… It’s a joy to see lower memory consumption than Vista! And it’s quick to free memory when you close programs. Microsoft did do a lot of work… (Well, the Linux community too did a lot these few months). One thing is clear though, Mac OS X still has the best interface!

So there was the same Aero theme on Windows 7, more (new) services, Documents is back to “My Documents” but guess what I saw in About… Version 6.1… Windows 7 is verison 6.1? That confirms that it’s like the second edition of Vista! That was to be expected! It always happened with Windows since version 3. The first one is new, and Microsoft then refines the product across releases to make a stable and performing version…

But it’s still a Beta Windows 7. The final versions have always been better than beta versions (remember Win 2k, XP, 98, Vista…). I’ll continue using the beta, put a lot of applications and see what it gives or gives up.

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