Windows 7
October 28, 2008I just want to say that I’m positively blown away by what I saw concerning Windows 7 in the keynote at the PDC. There is some seriously decent thinking being put into that product.
The interface enhancements reduce the amount of clicks drastically.
They finally implemented something as useful as Expose.
They cleaned up a lot of the UI.
Home Group is something I’ve been hoping for for a long time: all my computers and peripherals automatically interconnected (I’m going to cry the first time I won’t have to bother with sharing and installing a printer over the network).
The system tray is effectively gone.
You get full control over what messages the OS and its applications give you.
Windows key+p for instant and automatic switching between the various types of projector uses (I WANT TO HUG WHOEVER THOUGHT OF THIS ONE).
Device Stage for instant access to all my devices, even across the network.
Customisable shutdown button.
Ribbons in Paint and Wordpad.
And this is just a selection of the selection Steven and the ever lovely Julie showed us today. This is the first time in like ever that I’m truly excited about anything coming out of Redmond - and it will all work just fine on my Aspire One and desktop box, because Vista runs fine too. All the hard stuff - the groundwork, the base, the frameworks - are already there, and my computers can handle them easily. Windows 7 doesn’t contain any new and fancy tricks that needs newer hardware.
Apple is going to have a little bit of a pickle on this one if all they can come up with is a slimmed-down Leopard that only runs on 64bit Intel boxes.
Oh, and just for the record: JULIE IS TEH AWESOME. She drew a heart on the postcard. You’ll never see Bill or His Steveness draw a heart. +4738387534 for drawing hearts.
