It has taken some time for me to have some time with the windows seven beta. I tried to install it on a virtual machine (with Windows Virtual PC 7) on my laptop. But now i am convinced, that this old laptop (a Pentium M 1.73 Ghz does his job inside) is to slow for Windows 7 in the virtual PC environment.
It may be sufficient if i would install it directly. But i won't try because this could cause some serious damage and yet i don't have an external harddisk for sensible and important data it seems to be a bit to risky for me.
But even if it's too slow for really working with it, i could take a first impression of the new windows 7 beta.
The desktop and taskbar environment seems very shiny and friendly (if you click or hoovering something)
Not to see the name of a program anymore won't take me any bit of productivity and gives me more space for open programs in the taskbar - very useful for me!
I don't know wheter the calendar has been updated for vista and stayed the same nor, but compared to the calendar in windows xp (the one you get if you double click on the clock in the taskbar) is wonderfull. As i sometimes use the calender for looking up some dates quickly it seems very well.
But one thing i can't acquire a taste for is the way the control panel is managed.
It's a similar way i hated it in the "not classical" view in windows xp and windows vista too.
It seems as if i had to put up with the option to display all control panel elements.
As addition to the last entry. Microsoft repealed the limit of 2.5 million downloads for the beta. If you like to test it, you are able to do even now.
