Windows 7, What you need to know....

[DaveTaylor]

I was going to download it but then someone told me it will be on Microsoft's site on the 5th so I'm gonna wait till then.

A press released from Microsoft on the 28th claimed that they might delay the release now due to the leak.

[Decode]

That's ridiculous, its just encouraging more people to download it from TPB or Rapidshare.

[DaveTaylor]

That's ridiculous, its just encouraging more people to download it from TPB or Rapidshare.

Well it's not really, as probably all the official beta testers already probably have it now.

[Flisker]

I seriously am not liking that "superbar" it looks terrible.

[Jamesy]

I seriously am not liking that "superbar" it looks terrible.

I like it better than vistas. At least it matches the rest of Aero

[Hitman]

I don't like the bar thing much... looks good, but it has no text on the tab things like Vista, XP, etc... what happens if you have two Google Chrome windows open, will it just show two Chrome icons without text? That'd annoy me because I wouldn't know what's what...

[Jamesy]

I don't like the bar thing much... looks good, but it has no text on the tab things like Vista, XP, etc... what happens if you have two Google Chrome windows open, will it just show two Chrome icons without text? That'd annoy me because I wouldn't know what's what...

You can set it to show text, but by default would all be under one icon and then it would open into a group:



I am starting to see Xp's age in comparison. Some tasks just require more faffing about.

[timROGERS]

I would try this but I can never be bothered to download it

[Jamesy]

the temptation to put it on my laptop is immense. But... I just can't be bothered...

[Johno]

I don't like the bar thing much... looks good, but it has no text on the tab things like Vista, XP, etc... what happens if you have two Google Chrome windows open, will it just show two Chrome icons without text? That'd annoy me because I wouldn't know what's what...

It automatically groups your windows together, so when you click on the icon it shows you the windows you currently have open for that program in a small list (like on XP, when you set it to... group the windows automatically)

I haven't used it for that long (and I have used Vista for even less) but I quite like Windows 7 and I see it as a definite improvement on Vista. But to see how much of an improvement, I guess we will have to wait and see.