Windows 7 (next version of OS to come after Vista) is shrouded by tons of really unreliable gossip and confusing news on weird features. I think it had bothered someone there (at last) and they don’t really want to end up with ugly where-is-that-stupid-WinFS-you-had-promised-us press like Vista.
Engineering Windows 7 as of yesterday is official Microsoft blog on upcoming OS. It may be damage press control blog because of past experience… Still it’s very good to have a source of solid news on product that is very possibly going to make your computing experience paradise (or maybe hell) in few years.
Merging blog RSS feeds with Yahoo Pipes
Sharing files with HTTP File Server
The way tech news should be done
I subscribed to their feed, I’m really curious about what’s going to get out of this blog. Nice find buddy!
Yeah, Vista didn’t exactly left me in awe waiting for their next masterpiece so hard info would be nice. :)
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Well, it’s 15 months after this article, and Windows 7
is now on sale.
It ain’t revolutionary. It’s evolutionary. And those
describing it as “Vista II” aren’t far wrong !
Two of my three PC’s are Vista machines. ( The other one
-the netbook- is XP. ) I’m perfectly happy with Vista,
and believe it’s been heavily slandered by columnists
with an ax to grind with Microsoft. [ But, hey, I liked
Windows ME much better than Windows 98 SE ! ]
In particular, Windows Explorer was greatly improved in
Vista. I do a ~lot~ of file management, and the meliorated
Windows Explorer in Vista is much appreciated.
Vista had quite a few driver problems in it’s first year.
Plus, you can’t expect Vista to run on an ancient PC.
The same, though, is largely true with ~any~ new operating
system. The rabid hate for Vista in the tech media was all
out of proportion.
Only objection I might have to Win 7 being that Microsoft
got rid of Quick Launch. You can pin shortcuts to the taskbar,
but there’s no discrete Quick Launch anymore. PC Magazine has
a hack to get Quick Launch back into Win 7…
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2339493,00.asp
…yet I don’t know whether, or how well, it works.
Also the Win 7 taskbar list of running applications is now
entirely graphical (as in the Mac). Not certain whether I’ll
like that better than Vista’s and XP’s combination of a label
with small icon.
Win 7 Aero “Peek” sounds over-hyped. Have to wait and see if
it’s that big of a deal.
The most exciting thing in my opinion about Win 7 is that it’s
optimized for multi-core processors. Dual and quad CPU’s won’t
have full benefit until individual applications are optimized
for multi-core. The operating system at least being optimized,
though, represents a good start.
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The DataRat
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@DataRat
My problem with Vista is that it brought plenty of issues but none of new nice and interesting (to me) things.
In the beginning a lot of pro-Vista people online started with mumble and bogus overhyped features like ReadyBoost when asked directly how exactly Vista is better.
Anyway good or not it is a fact that it was safe to skip and many did just that.
PS Windows ME ? Seriously? It crashed more often than cat asked for food. :)