Anyone here participating in the Windows 7 Beta?
I've been running it in a VM for the past couple weeks. Just loaded it on a spare HD in my laptop about an hour ago (yeah, it's still working!
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I hear it's a bit faster than Vista; it was supposed to be comparible to Windows 2000 in speed without all the kindergarten graphics that Vista has. After running it for an hour or so on a real HD, I can kinda say it's "faster" but then again I installed (as I do any OS) from scratch. It's bound to "feel" faster.
So, even considering the total computer enema and the 'bound to be expected' computer performance gains, I still feel it is a fancy, schmancy OS with all that good stuff that "homeowners" will like; beautiful (I know, a matter of opinion) graphics and canned visuals, but NOT really what I would expect to use for a business edition OS.
I still feel and always have, that there should be at least three installation options, with distinct differences. When you download, purchase, intend to purchase, whatever - if you want a business edition, that's what you should get. Yeah, yeah, I know.. just go to the Windows visual & display options and set it for "Best performance" as opposed to "Let Windows decide what's best for me" or "Adjust for best appearance" OR the biggie - Let
ME decide.. and continuously check and un-check boxes, click apply - I might as well be adjusting the electric seats in my car to accomdate my 5' 9" build with aching sacariliac after my 4' 9" wife drives - ... AND leaves the seat all the way up!
From a tweaking, kinda developing and installer programming professional point of view, this is by biggest frustration with Windows in general. My forte, if I have to self-proclaim it, is Installation Scripting. This is something that would be SO EASY to include. I have to live with Windows the way it is because I support 1000 nodes in a very "political" (as far as decisions go) environment. I just really had my hopes up that we would finally have an OS for us SysAdmins and not the general masses.
Thanks for letting me vent
PS: Did you notice I said I reinstalled the OS from scratch about an hour ago and within an hour I am already on Rick's (and TEAM!) site?
No, Rick - It wasn't because I just needed to re-populate my Favorites! True geek's save them ahead of time.