Windows 7 could be one of the greatest operating systems, if it can outperform all the problems that the vista users had.
I found Vista to be a worthy upgrade from Windows XP SP2. Despite its obvious flaws (can you say “resource hog”?) and the acknowlegement that some of its features need to be disabled by default, Vista at heart is a much more stable and usable operating system than XP, which was first released in 2001.
I found the Windows 7 beta a painless install. Out-of-the-box driver support on our test machine was perfect, and it took only half an hour and two quick reboots to begin running a stable desktop environment, though we wondered why Windows 7 created a 200MB partition in addition to its main partition.
Basic desktop performance was strong; the reports that Windows 7 is simply faster than Vista appear to be true. Certainly, Windows 7 had no problem simultaneously installing and launching applications, downloading files, browsing the Web, and carrying out other tasks on our modest 2.8GHz Pentium 4, which has only an 80GB IDE hard disk and 512MB of RAM.
Vista’s most visible annoyance, User Account Control, has been pared right back on its default setting, and we encountered it only a couple of times throughout a whole morning of installing applications.
Windows 7 recommended that we install a third-party antivirus package (it suggested Kaspersky and AVG), but its antispyware package Defender comes preinstalled. Microsoft appears to have an antivirus package installed under the hood; when downloading new software with Firefox, we were told that our downloads were being scanned for viruses.
I like all the new graphics and stuffs that are added and it seems to be pretty greater than the vista. The taskbar icons Idea is pretty good. The Best part is that its driver base is basically same as that of Windows Vista, that will be a great advantage for many of us.
In general, this signals that Microsoft has spent a lot of effort with Windows 7 on delivering a solid operating system that won’t “wow” anyone but will satisfy them on a much deeper level.
