Having been testing in a virtual machine for a while I finally decided to make my machine dual boot into it. It has to be said overall I am very impressed. Love some of the customisation, love the new gestures and shortcuts. Seems very fast and very fluid. Memory Handy seems very good too. Also liking the way services and applications are started when needed and most importantly, closed when not needed.

What do other people think of it? I plan to be moving to this when it comes out, there is no doubt of that, although it would be nice if Ultramon updated to work with it properly.


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it's great. if this doesn't make apple fanboys shut up, nothing will.

i had some complaint about it but i can't remember. it was something minor but slightly annoying. idk what though lol

When does the beta stop working?  August or something?  I need to get around to upgrading to RC1 or going back to XP until 7 is in release stage.

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i've decided not to mess with it yet... i've gotten too used to vista...i might replace the ubuntu side of my machine with w7 though...just depends on weather i need it or not

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actually, user interface wise it is a very very slightly step from vista. couple of differences, but mainly in setting up more than general use. Aero is the biggest difference and you can use it like it is Vista, although there are so many more features that are really handy I don't know why you would. I have probably clocked up an hour with the new Aero and already I find it very natural to drag windows to the top to maximise etc.

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Can you work out the code?

One thing I really like is how it connects to wifi networks so quickly, even after a hibernate or sleep.  Vista would take FOREVER.

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I still have a few issues, such as none of my wireless cards working with it properly (though that was likely because of using the same drivers - they worked, but just like under vista they had sever latency issues), and a few other things easily attributable to it being a beta at the time.

Overall, I don't really want to say impressed, since this is what Vista ought to have been in the first place, but it's worth using.

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Windows 7 is a more functional, faster, easier-to-use version of vista. No real new features besides the new taskbar (which is great because it mimics the functionality of the OS X dock without looking like the dock or feeling like they were stealing from apple. Microsoft is trying to get users to focus on what applications they are using rather than what windows they have open.)

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