Windows Seven

inerd — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:15:52 +0000

Windows Seven is to be the next release of Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, which might take 3 years in development. You can read more about Windows 7 on Wikipedia.

Few days ago Windows blog announced the official public beta release of Windows Seven. So i applied myself and got a key plus download it. the ISO image of the Windows 7 Beta build 7000 was only 2.43GB. Obviously a lot smaller than (annoying) Windows Vista. Sorry about the quick crappy blog post.

Installation

All you gotta do was to burn the image into a DVD and to boot itup from your DVD drive.

windows 7 Setup loading

Windows 7 had a new logo with a kind of a Gaussian blur and overall the installation was same as installing Windows Vista, except the background image. I can say that installation was 100% based on Vista but installation was faster.

Windows Seven Installation same as vista

*These low quality images were taken from my phone (Sony Ericssion K618i)

Speed

I have to say this is the first time i am able to feel like i am on a Core 2 Quad. Compared to Windows Vista this is much better. Boots up in 13 seconds which vista took minutes.

Experience

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Yes that was my first impression on Windows 7. After all the crap they put on Vista i never even did think of giving pops on another Windows O/S. What windows 7 is like Vista without those bunch of message boxes, warnings prompting messages.

Here is a quick screen capture of my experience

Watch my first run screencast

In short i will say this is the best windows operating system i have experienced and i will be writing another post about features later.

Obviously a good reason to switch to firefox.

inerd — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:01:46 +0000

I am writing my first ever post on Windows Vista, and i am feeling really uncomfortable. Its a clean installation of Vista and my the first thing i thought of was to dwonload firefox. So was running Internet Explorer to download firefox and i thought of chechking my mails same time, so i typed http://gmail.com on the address bar. I was suprised to see a Certificate Error page. I tried http://mail.google.com suprised and still gets the same.

So I just decided not to use Internet Expirier anymore and thought of blogging about this matter. And ran wordpress using IE and was even telling me to browsehappily and safely.