Comments on: Screenshot Tour of Windows 7: Libraries, Taskbar, IE8 and the New Paint Application!

By: Thoughts on Windows 7 After 3 Days | The "Break it Down" Blog

Thoughts on Windows 7 After 3 Days | The "Break it Down" Blog — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:31:17 +0000

[...] NOTE: To get an idea of other top-level changes and features coming in Windows 7, check our our screenshot tour. [...]

By: 19 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks You Will Love | The "Break it Down" Blog

19 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks You Will Love | The "Break it Down" Blog — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:37:32 +0000

[...] you’ve been hearing the buzz about Windows 7, maybe you read our take on it (or saw the screenshot tour), and you want to give it a try. Let’s say you downloaded it, installed it and are now [...]

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:10:03 +0000

Zac, true… with the addition of saving/opening Office 12 files that’s a real boost in the viability of using WordPad as a decent word processor without the expensive of Office 12.

By: zac

zac — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:06:15 +0000

Personally,I am just glad that they added so many features to WordPad. It has never made any sense that you have to pay for a decent word processor (excluding openoffice.org) just to do simple tasks. Now that a decent one is intergrated into the system, we don’t have to waste all our money on the next version of ms word! All also like the new taskbar design- it looks a lot cleaner than previous versions.

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:22:55 +0000

Amol,

That might be true, but admit it… you wouldn’t mind if Microsoft updated Notepad to handle line breaks correctly would you?

By: Amol

Amol — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:03:29 +0000

I use notepad2, which is perfect. It is as fast and simple as notepad but can do more and takes care of line breaks and few very handy features.

good for me it is hardly ever updated. Its a saviour in case windows ever updates notepad.exe

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:22:37 +0000

@Brian, you are absolutely right. WordPad got a new user interface re-work as well.

@Jigsaw, agree about Notepad but goddamn I would pay $100 for them to fix that stupid end-of-line issue that’s been there for so long… I always install textpad for that. Smarter indentation (for making lists and what not) would be great, but I won’t be picky

@dmdanleaf, also great point, we added a portion on the memory usage of Windows 7 and overall performance which is absolutely an improvement over Vista from what we saw.

By: dmdanleaf

dmdanleaf — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:49:26 +0000

Windows 7 is fast, very fast and obviously looks like vista but is also different. It is user friendly and integration with online activities is excellent. It’s agile performance reminds me of the speed of Ubuntu. Thus far this is the first Windows OS I like since XP after SP2.

By: sroux

sroux — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:41:35 +0000

Well well well, nice screenchots but at the end it just taste like the same old vista sh*t?!

By: AkitaOnRails

AkitaOnRails — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:25:27 +0000

I installed the Beta on a VMWare too (so no Aero for me I completely agree on the IE8 comments. I would be extremely happy if Notepad did just one thing right: not screw up line breaks. Notepad wants \r\n but most Internet files uses only \n. Wordpad does it correctly. So dumb that after decades, Notepad still can’t do it.

The taskbar is not so bad. Specially if you’re already used to the Dock in the Mac. The Library stuff will definitely confuse a lot of people as they will think of it as usual Folders and they will not find their way if they actually drill down C:\

The Ultimate version should have SFU updated and included by default, and actually compliant to Unix. That would be huge for developers. Powershell is no good and should be dropped altogether. Nah, of course they won’t do it.

Overall, it is good enough that it won’t consume 1Gb of RAM on a clean startup though. That alone is worth the upgrade.

And you’re right. As a Mac user I would never drop Leopard for Win7. Specially with Snow Leopard right around the corner.

By: Jigsaw hc

Jigsaw hc — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:02:47 +0000

I think I prefer that Notepad be left alone. I use it regularly because it is so simple and quick.

I’m not worried about IE8 because I’ll be using Firefox, but the other stuff looks pretty good to me. Especially if it really is faster than Vista or XP. I’m looking forward to some gaming based benchmarks being done on Win 7 now that the beta is out.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:59:13 +0000

you forgot the updated wordpad. ;o notepad got nothing, wordpad got the ribbon interface too, right?