Windows 7 - first look

[Broni]

I've been using Windows 7 pre-beta for a few days, and created a little review, which keeps growing, time permitting.
You can see it here: http://www.smartestcomputing.us.com/index.php?showtopic=34382&st=0

P. S. patio wants to see my reply #28. I hope, I'm not mistaken

[!*~.:Pink Floyd:.~*!]

It kind of looks like windows 95 but with the new Vista startbutton.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

....Taskbar looks ugly....

[BC_Programmer]

It kind of looks like windows 95 but with the new Vista startbutton.

not even close.

[Broni]

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Beautiful.

[CBMatt]

Ah, those were the days...

[BC_Programmer]

OMG... you can get "The Internet"! what an awesome program!

[Broni]

[BC_Programmer]

hey wait a second... that doesn't look right... I don't recall windows 3.1 supporting  label shadows; and it used the system font for all the window titles, not Tahoma for program manager and courier new for group windows.


I'd provide a screenie myself, but I encountered some issues with pbrush; I might do it in the morning but I'm too short on time now.

[Dairyman]

Wow, that looks so great and the taskbar its--

Darn, I can't fake it.

That is a very horrible and nauseating design in my opinion.

I mean do they really have to make the taskbar 50x bigger with every release? In XP the title bar is almost the size of the taskbar. What if they do the same in Windows 7?

Same goes for the Control Panel. It's like a modern washing machine with 15 different functions when all I want you want to do is WASH YOUR !#%*@$^* CLOTHES!!! And face it, do we need every gradient, shadow and such to entertain our eyes? What's in Windows 7 that's not in XP and that we need?

One more OS, one more font to slow down our boot speeds.

Windows Defender, Windows Firewall on every system.

To me, it's kinda like Vista with more links, more icons and again, more eye candy.

There is one thing I like though, and that's the new WordPad interface. Thumbs up to Microsoft on that one.

Windows XP, Windows 98 and Vista FTMFW!

Apologies if this offended you.

[Broni]

No offense. I didn't created it

One correction, though
The huge taskbar is caused by default setting to use large icons. Why large icons are default, beats me.
After switching to small icons, all looks normal.

I edited the initial post at my board...

[!*~.:Pink Floyd:.~*!]

Err umm this is kind of Off topic  but what is Network Neighborhood?

[!*~.:Pink Floyd:.~*!]

See why cant they make a nice simple Design like OSX?



Nice and simple and probly works with any Wallpaper. (as in looks good)

[BC_Programmer]

That's windows.

you're running with a skin.

aside from other proof (the display dialog, etc) I doubt "Windows media player" is available on OS X.

and I'm not sure what you mean by "simple design", since half of what is resident in your screenshot and the skin in particular is just a skin on the same old windows.


heh.