My first impressions then of Windows 7 are very good. It is much like Vista but it almost seems like a more intelligent operating system, if there can be such a thing. Things that we have always wondered why we can’t make them more easy have been made easy.
There are a lot of graphic and layout changes; albeit often small they are still there.
The only problems I have encountered so far is that IE8 crashes from time to time (no change there) and also when viewing the Games folder one the start menu it tends to hesitate before loading the logos for the games. Nothing huge and I am sure in the final release this will be fixed. For a beta version I think it is very nearly complete! Maybe that is why Microsoft has said that they won’t be releasing a beta 2! So bring on the RC1 version.
For noobs this is a review of what you are likely to use and notice, for power users you will want to go a bit further…but then you will have probably downloaded Windows 7 yourselves.
If they don’t do anything stupid in the RC1 and/or final release then I will be putting this on a few machines in the office when it is released for sure!
See Also:
Windows 7 Beta – First Glance
Nice and Simple – Windows 7 Features