Windows 7 RC

[REVENGE]

Well, I installed it on my tx2 today, and I'm fairly impressed already. Performance is very good, the UI is pretty slick, and the multitouch support is actually useful.

[ginekolog]

no, thanx, my 5 years old instalation XP works flawlessly.

[aegis]

no, thanx, my 5 years old instalation XP works flawlessly.

I doubt "flawless" is the right word
maybe "works and does most things how it should" is more accurate.

anyway, I've been using windows 7 rc1 for almost a week, and I'm pretty happy.

it manages my memory better than xp, and compatibility is better than xp 64-bit (can't run 32-bit with 8gb of ram)

the performance is very good, but it might be partly because I'm using using a decent (3.5ghz*4, 8gb ddr2 1066mhz) box.

haven't tried it on anything slower.

[Argh]

Huh. So, it's not Vista, basically? What about all of the annoying nanny features in Vista? Did they drop that stuff, if you're an administrator and want to turn it all off?

[aegis]

you've always been able to disable UAC, but it's actually a *good* security feature.

[REVENGE]

You could say they made UAC more sensible, and less pervasive this version.

Also, it's not quite as laggy as before (the switch from the normal to the secure desktop during the prompting).

[Peet]

you've always been able to disable UAC, but it's actually a *good* security feature.

Well the main issue I find is that it becomes a monotonous "click to continue" sort of deal that forces the user to be the one to distinguish a good action from a bad action...which is pretty counterproductive for most users as they will simply begin to automatically click allow.

[Forboding Angel]

Well one of the big changes in UAC is the fact that there are now 4 levels of operation. By default it is on the 3rd setting (not the highest) and when setting up my laptop with rc1 I encountered the prompt for 2 things, avast, and something else, I can't remember what.

Basically, at the level it is by default it is no longer invasive. I have absolutely nothing but good things to say about rc1. TO me it's like having all the features I liked about XP and vista put into one OS that seems to run better than either of them. Color me very pleased.

[REVENGE]

A rather weird thing is that Firefox 3.5b4 actually supports more multitouch gesture usage than IE8...

That doesn't make Microsoft look good at all.

[aegis]

IE has never been something microsoft should be proud of

[AF]

You guys should actually read the windows 7 engineering blog, then you'd see their shiny graph of how many UAC prompts and how the very presence of the feature forced application developers to do things properly, resulting in UAC prompts popping up reducing by almost an order of magnitude.

But yes you have always been able to turn UAC off, but in Windows7 there are a few semi-secure versions such as the one that saves your request so if a second UAC prompt turns up if you said yes on the first it assumes yes on the second.

I dont want to try the RC though and mess with my OS, but I hear nothing but good things, and having read the blogposts about how they changed their development practices, the features you hear are already built, they're not advertising features they havent finished yet like Vista and XP ( partially because its the blogosphere reporting on the releases thats doing all the advertisement not the marketing team at microsoft )

[aegis]

they are advertising the virtual windows xp feature, and I can safely say it's not finished ^_^

[AF]

One could argue they never finished notepad lol, whats msising from the XP virtual machine?

[aegis]

it's unpolished and rough ^_^

also made me at the fact they use RDP instead of doing some uberawesome hax