and has all the information and tools you need to manage you ever-growing plethora of devices. ![]() The idea of the Device Center is cool - one place that collects all the devices you use, your laptop, cell phone, printers, etc. Also imagine our apps aren't "installed" into the OS but run as virtualized applications. I like having another virtual OS handy to try out software and downloads without risking unknown software on my everyday computer. Then you'd have your old XP OS right there as you convert and move over to Windows 7, much like Mac users run Windows in Parallels to have access to Microsoft apps. What if your existing XP installation ran as a virtual instance inside a Windows 7 installation window. Want Windows XP users to migrate to Windows 7? Image this scenario. But Windows 7 is deft of anything close to being able to virtualization an app, or run another instance of an OS in a Windows 7 window. I still believe that's the future of where we're headed with apps. When I first heard Microsoft was quickly getting a new OS version underway following Vista's rocky start, I thought for sure we'd see an OS tailored for virtualization, or possibly application virtualization. ![]() That would definitely add more stickiness to Windows 7.Ĥ. If Windows 7 is to be our home desktop, why not make it seemless to connect into all the social networking tools and sites we use to connect with other people? Make social networking something Windows 7 facilitate vs. I use Digsby, which logs into my AOL, MSN, gtalk, Yahoo, Twitter, LinkedIn and facebook accounts. I know Microsoft wants us to all use MSN Messenger as part of Windows Live but one of the first apps I installed in Windows 7 was a multi-account IM and social networking client. ![]() Windows 7 did add the ability to burn an ISO to a DVD or CD by double clicking on the ISO file, but mounting ISOs as a virtual drive right there in the Windows 7 interface would be so much handier and something I find I miss very much.ģ. It's such a pleasure to right-click on an ISO image freshly downloaded from MSDN and begin using it in development in literally seconds. Since adding Virtual CloneDrive to my list of handiest free utilities on the planet, I've stopped burning DVDs to install software. everything you need for the devices you use? Shouldn't printing be a no brainer, something every printing device should do with little to no problems in Windows 7? I think so.Ģ. Shouldn't driver problems be a thing of the past? Isn't that part of the promise of the new Windows 7 Device Center. Similarly, my Brother all-in-one printer is one that's pretty common, yet Windows 7 either won't print to it or gets documents in an infinite printing loop. The drivers for it should be readily available and very easy for Windows 7 to find and automatically install, but no, there are still 3 hardware components listed in the Windows Device Manager that don't have drivers installed. My Sony Vaio laptop is more than a year old. If Microsoft really wants to bring to market more than a "what we should have done with Vista" operating system, here are some small, but important, and some big things I think (and thought from its announcement) are needed in Windows 7.ġ. I can't help but sense that we should be receiving more than just an OS release that helps us move on from Vista. If you're a Windows XP holdout, it's still an upgrade and a change from XP just like Vista was.īut is that all there is? Is Windows 7 merely a better Windows Vista? Is Windows 7 the Vista Microsoft should have shipped from the start? If you've been using Vista, you'll feel quite at home in Windows 7. Other than some printer issues and some lingering driver problems which the OS still doesn't install upfront, Windows 7 runs very well. Or should I say, it's what Vista should have been at the onset. My impressions? It's Vista, or rather, it's a better Vista. I've been testing Windows 7 since its release and am using it fulltime since installing the beta on my primary laptop over the weekend. There are fewer crashes, it's lighter weight (less junk comes with it) and it gets high marks for performance. And it easily outshines Windows Vista in its stability, polish and simplicity. What do people like? It's stable, especially for a beta. Overall the reports about the Windows 7 public beta are quite good.
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