When you first put in your Windows 7 disc to install, it is a lot like Vista’s installer. This is not a bad thing. Vista’s installer is very user friendly with a nice graphical interface, unlike XP. The setup is rather simple; you pretty much go through whether you are upgrading or doing a clean install, where you are installing it to, and you’re done with the first part. It installs very quickly. On my laptop I did it in about 40 minutes, while my friend installed it on his desktop in less than 18 minutes. After it restarts and loads for the first time, you setup your account, create your HomeGroup, and customize a few other aspects.

So after about 20 minutes on almost any computer, you should be just about ready to being using Windows 7. If you don’t have any drivers for your hardware, just go in Windows Update and it should find them for you. It will most likely detect your internet connection so it is usable when first booted up with no drivers. Once you have your drivers installed it is smooth sailing from there.

Overall, the placement of things hasn’t changed. However, you will notice the new taskbar, one of the biggest UI changes, right away. The taskbar works great. You can pin programs that you use often to it, and it groups programs together by default in an elegant way. To me, it is a hybrid – like a dock and a taskbar just had a baby.

Of course there are other differences, like the completely redone Windows Explorer, or the all Aero Glass UI. But it still has many similarities, in a good way, to Vista.

One thing that is quite different than Vista, though, is the stability. I am not saying Vista is an unstable OS, but when you compare it to Windows 7, it sure looks shaky. For being a beta build, this is very promising. I can’t wait for the upcoming builds. Windows 7 is for sure going to be a hit.

I see many people bashing Windows 7 even though they have not tried it yet. That is just wrong. Just because Vista was a failure, it doesn’t mean Windows 7 will blow too. In fact, it is the exact opposite in this case. Windows 7 is going to be one of the best operating systems on the market when it releases at the end of this year. I have been saying this since the early builds that I have used in its pre-beta stage.

The bottom line is Windows 7 is something to check out. It is substantially better than Vista, and a great competitor for XP. There is definitely an promising future for Windows 7.

As i started to look around the new OS, i saw the super bar and found it to be a big improvement over XP which is saying a lot to me. I ran some old programs that were found on XP as well and saw improvements on the graphics which is all good and ran up to speed. The new look to the background and desktop was good upgrade as well.

I am going to say that i am able to run Windows 7 on just 512MB of RAM and the requirement is 1 Gig. It still runs good and doesn’t go slow at all, It would run faster if i had a large ram but for me to test it out, is pretty nice. I run windows 7 on my second hard drive partition and i use it as my secondary hard drive, as oppose to my XP drive as my main hard disk. It has been an experience to test out the new beta and i am still testing it out as of now . I would definitely tell everyone to test this OS out and try it for yourself, you wont regret it. Thanks Chris for the video, and well done on the explanation of Windows 7.

It’s a great experiance and I believe everyone should try it. I would recommend you install it on VMWare or a system you don’t use often. I believe that Windows Vista should have been this more even more.

I use Windows as my primary and I don’t have a Mac, however like Chris said; even I wouldn’t switch back to Windows yet. Microsoft must made the world scream if they want to get back like they were years ago when Mac wasn’t as it is today.
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I downloaded Windows 7 the day it launched and to tell you the truth I was kinda worried to see how it would turn out. When i ran it, i saw that i was going to be a different. Nice setup windows and fast startups brought a sense of future for Windows 7.

Honestly, this PC isn’t capable of handling the multimedia tasks I built it for.

I’ve just decided to keep this PC around for “goofing around.”

Windows 7 runs just fine on this PC. I just don’t expect to do any multimedia stuff with it.

It’s a great experiance and I believe everyone should try it. I would recommend you install it on VMWare or a system you don’t use often. I believe that Windows Vista should have been this more even more.

I use Windows as my primary and I don’t have a Mac, however like Chris said; even I wouldn’t switch back to Windows yet. Microsoft must made the world scream if they want to get back like they were years ago when Mac wasn’t as it is today.