Friday, September 26, 2008

Are you using the Windows 7 beta? -

If so, how do you like/hate it? Or if you re not, you cant rant about how Windows sucks, I m fine either way.

So far so good. I like how they sped it up. It is faster to boot than vista by far, and some ppl are saying it is booting faster than XP in some tests. I like that they kept the ASLR from Vista, it makes it much harder for bad guys to execute buffer overflows against the OS. I said harder.. Not impossible.. :) I am not sure what I think about the aesthetic of it. It looks like vista with a little OSX docking thrown in. Certainly not nearly as cool as OSX either.

In a virtual machine in VMWare yes, no major issues so far. As for differences - already a much smaller footprint for one (hopefully not just because it s a beta). Link below for info and to download the beta version of Windows 7 from Microsoft, both X86 and X64 versions available.

It feels faster than Vista.

I like it. I find people who don t like this or Vista just aren t used to it or computer savvy. Works good so far.

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