Gadget Of The Week: Windows 7 Beta
This week's Gadget of the Week is once again Windows 7 Beta. Why? Because thanks to the delusion that Vista is a functional OS, my main PC has killed itself again. Three strikes for Vista - but now that I've been given the opportunity to install Win 7 on an old Frankenstein machine I threw together, I'm ready to stop shunning Microsoft.
Here, at last, in this freaking beta is the Windows Vista we were promised. It's far faster and more stable running on an old Pentium 4 with an almost ancient Radeon AGP card and 400Mhz DDR RAM than Vista ever ran on my now-defunct quad Core 2 system.
Yes, Microsoft's design-by-committee philosophy is still present and annoying, with some features shuffled, renamed and of course - hidden. Hiding otherwise useful features is one of Microsoft's favorite pastimes, but somebody over there must have grown a pair and began exerting creative control, because while Windows 7 very closely resembles Vista, it is not a bloated broken mess.
I'm talking native driver support and UAC that doesn't make you want to kill the entire design team. I'm talking a taskbar that is now potentially better than Apple's dock. Yes, better. Potentially.
So please, if you've got parts to spare, burn an install disc of this beta while you've got the chance.
tiny dancer
Posted to Gadget of the Week, Hot Stuff on 2 February 2009
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Sorry to hear that Vista has failed you once again. I hope that Windows 7 fixes your issues and makes your face a happyface instead of a sadface. I however, haven't had any major issues with Vista, and surprisingly, though I love betas, haven't even peeked at the Win7 one. I just haven't had a lot of the issues that people crucify Vista for. Maybe that pact with devilgaits I made a few years back is the reason... ;)
I, too, have not had any of the problems I hear about Vista. I'm running Vista Ultimate 64 on an Intel quad-core chip. I run faster than any system I've made before and only had driver issues with a handheld PS2-style controller--and those were more to do with Oblivion than Vista.
Are you sure your hardware is up to the task?