Windows 7 : Less bloated, more power than Vista

[DerekLeung]

Windows 7: less bloated, more power than Vista

08.01.2009
From tomorrow, 9 January, us mere mortals will have the chance to download the beta version of Microsoft’s brand-new operating system, Windows 7, which promises to kick Vista to the kerb.

In his keynote speech at the largest consumer technology show of the year, CES, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer (pictured) announced the availability of this beta. He also announced the global availability of the free, web-based Windows Live, which will soon have some pretty cool features, including Facebook integration for photo sharing.

Also, from February, Dell will have some of this software preloaded on most of its hardware for small businesses and consumers in the form of Windows Live Essential and Live Search, which may be useful or irritating depending on how you roll.

“Windows 7 and Windows Live are part of an incredible pipeline of consumer technology that is making it easier than ever for people to communicate, share and get more done,” said Ballmer.

Well, I don’t know about you, but Windows 7 looks to be a god-send for frustrated Vista users, and any operating system that cleans up its act and leaves a more streamlined user experience sounds promising to me.

Instead of just the usual side menu that XP, Vista and all their predecessors had, the new Windows 7 will have a large taskbar with big icons for switching between programs – from first glance, it’s looking as streamlined as the Max OS X’s desktop environment.

Other new features include Jump Lists and Previews, which promise to make for better productivity by keeping recent files and much-used programs at hand.

The Home Group feature also looks set to make the Windows environment more painless for the consumer by making it a cinch to connect home PCs together for file sharing, printer sharing and so on.

The beta version of Windows 7 is available for download tomorrow from www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7.

By Marie Boran

 

[R4g3]

I spoke to some top guys from MS in Seattle last Jun, they were talking about how fantastic Window 7 is gonna be. Then when i ask them about vista, their reply was: "Vista is something that we would like to forget."

hopefully few years down the road, i wont be hearing them telling me "Window 7 is something that we would like to forget."

 

[congo9]

Sure or not ? window 7 ....... not like Vista.

This stupid Vista need at least 1 gig of RAM just to move ! And no wonder Acer is off loading their shit note book at Funan, together with others , all loaded with Vista at a cheaper price now.

 

[cowbellc]

yep...has been trying since build 6801.

 

[popdod]

Instead of just the usual side menu that XP, Vista and all their predecessors had, the new Windows 7 will have a large taskbar with big icons for switching between programs – from first glance, it’s looking as streamlined as the Max OS X’s desktop environment.

Copy say copy lor.
Whatz new???

 

[uncleyap]

Forget MS lah.

I will never trust MS after all the unnecessary troubles and terrible exploitations they had made to millions of users.

Whatever Windows 7 or 8 or 999 I won't be using. Even if they OPENED all their source code and gave GPL license to public, I will still select one of the Linux distributions or Sun Solaris or Open Solaris etc simply because they are more reliable and never gave me (or other people) VIRUS + SPYWARE etc troubles.

Now MS expect users still to pay for their new products, after their lucrative rip off from 2 decades ago. We had paid so much for lossy products full of flaws and security risk etc, and put up with their craps for so many years. Now that better OS and applications are widely availiable and FOC and we have so many choices, why will we still look back at MS?

Forget it!

 

[Neh_Neh_Pok]

"Weee~ the upcoming new OS will drive millions of dollars into my pocket and put me back to World's Number 1 Richest Man ranking soon. Hei hei hei hei hei.. "

 

[uncleyap]

"Weee~ the upcoming new OS will drive millions of dollars into my pocket and put me back to World's Number 1 Richest Man ranking soon. Hei hei hei hei hei.. "


Everything is increasing and moving fast and if you can't keep up the pace, you're out of the game

Precisely!

That's why MS is out!

MS is lacking very far behind in technology to Linux, they are out-dated and replaced!

Bill Gates is also OUT OF MS and REPLACED, yes, you better update yourself, he is gone from MS.

For some years ago Linux was still catching up, in few areas, that was in terms of newest hardware support by Linux drivers. Today, Linux already surpass MS in this aspect. All latest hardware and devices recently I am able to get device driver support BETTER THAN MS WINDOWS already.

Because there are many companies and development groups in parallel developing and sharing OPEN SOURCE, the development in Linux became faster and faster and throw MS far behind. Windows is only one single monopoly company MS developing it and it shares code with no others.

There are new Linux releases every week, and many updates released every day. The rate things improved and enhanced are at unprecedented speed. This benefits users a lot and the smarter users are enjoying it.

 

[char_jig_kar]

hey uncle yap,

check out sidux distro. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidux

very fast distro. i am using it now.

 

[diversifyx2]

If guys here talking about free stuff, i meant its all free to me, be it mac, ms, linux or other os. no diff. and more option.

 

[uncleyap]

hey uncle yap,

check out sidux distro. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidux

very fast distro. i am using it now.

OK, can try. Downloading now from Taiwan - SLOW DOWNLOADING! :o

 

[uncleyap]

I have got Sidux Live CD running now, I am now posting from it's Konqueror, there is no Mozilla inside I can find. But uniquely I found the 3G mobile internet program! Not bad!

Thanks!

 

[Satan]

MS usuaally has a lot of bugs in their new products and Vista was disappointing. One of my R&D guys is using Linux and he finds it a lot better than MS Windows.

 

[char_jig_kar]

OK, can try. Downloading now from Taiwan - SLOW DOWNLOADING! :o

yes, i think i encounter this problem too when i try to download sidux iso image from taiwan. if i am not wrong, i think i try other link after that (USA? Aus? cant remember), and it was very fast. within 1 hour i think...

 

[char_jig_kar]

I have got Sidux Live CD running now, I am now posting from it's Konqueror, there is no Mozilla inside I can find. But uniquely I found the 3G mobile internet program! Not bad!

Thanks!

i choose to use this distro (xfce version), because it is fast. and also, i have atheros driver (wireless adapter) in my notebook. and ubuntu doesn't get it right in dealing with atheros driver: connection very weak, always drop connection, cannot connect right away when boot up, etc etc.

so i try out other distro, and luckily, i chance upon sidux, and now, no more connection problem for me.

 

[johnny333]

How many year before Windows 7 makes it out of beta?

It took vista years & it still has problems .

 

[uncleyap]

yes, i think i encounter this problem too when i try to download sidux iso image from taiwan. if i am not wrong, i think i try other link after that (USA? Aus? cant remember), and it was very fast. within 1 hour i think...

1st I tried USA & Germany. Was able to get 60+KB/s only :( both.

Taiwan I got 150KB/s and 1st I wanted to get the DVD but it said 5 hours +

So ended up I got only the KDE CD. 1 hour + completed.

atheros driver:

I got it working for some one else's laptops with FC7, SuSE & I think Mandriva.

Had to install the atheros firmware package.

apt-get & yum can find the firmware packages I think. Some time have to download source and compile certain Linux drivers but they had made it extremely fast and easy. E.g. Nvidia graphics cards, download their NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.22-pkg2.run file and run as root that's it - all automatically done.

MOST of the Linux device drivers issues that I had in the past years had vanished recently. They catch-up very fast and now MS is lagging behind.

 

[char_jig_kar]

1st I tried USA & Germany. Was able to get 60+KB/s only :( both.

Taiwan I got 150KB/s and 1st I wanted to get the DVD but it said 5 hours +

So ended up I got only the KDE CD. 1 hour + completed.

atheros driver:

I got it working for some one else's laptops with FC7, SuSE & I think Mandriva.

Had to install the atheros firmware package.

apt-get & yum can find the firmware packages I think. Some time have to download source and compile certain Linux drivers but they had made it extremely fast and easy. E.g. Nvidia graphics cards, download their NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.22-pkg2.run file and run as root that's it - all automatically done.

MOST of the Linux device drivers issues that I had in the past years had vanished recently. They catch-up very fast and now MS is lagging behind.

Had tried using FC, and mandriva. FC cannot even detect my touchpad out of box, mandriva is slow for my notebook, and Suse, I think its not for free, so... I stick to Ubuntu. But while using Ubuntu, my notebook connection keep dropping, weak signal, or slow to detect wireless network at home, so I switch to sidux.

 

[uncleyap]

Had tried using FC, and mandriva. FC cannot even detect my touchpad out of box, mandriva is slow for my notebook, and Suse, I think its not for free, so... I stick to Ubuntu. But while using Ubuntu, my notebook connection keep dropping, weak signal, or slow to detect wireless network at home, so I switch to sidux.

Every release of each distribution can get different improvements. You can only find out if you tried. Open SuSE is FOC.

http://www.opensuse.org/en/

One thing so good about Ubuntu is high speed local server for download and update. The Singapore server is in NUS. Online download & update is the fastest among all distributions that I tried.

When you find Mandriva slow, can try to turn off some of the unused services / daemons. Other cause can be harddisk DMA not turned on.