I am thoroughly impressed. Windows has brought glory back to it's name. Windows 7 is a much more powerful, faster and compatible operating system, outdoing its old counterpart XP. Windows 7 also provides the same aero glass theme with transparency and also a new wallpaper slideshow feature (similar [exactly the same] as Mac's OS X). This new version also provides a different style taskbar where only the icon of the running application appears, when hovering over the icon, the preview window appears, clicking on the window unminimises it or focuses it. This feature was a good idea at first and is quite fun, however, when in a rush, or trying to get work done quickly, it gets quite annoying. Compatability was something i was very impressed by. Windows 7 is slowly catching up to the Ubuntu method of drivers (you plug it in and it works). My printer, which has always caused driver problems in the past, just worked. I plugged it in and it downloaded and installed the drivers in under a minute. I was very pleased. One thing i am not happy about however, is they still have vista like security (windows asking permission very frequently, having to run some programs as admin etc).

Overall, a great improvement from Vista. On the M$ scale of 1/10, 10 being good, ill give it a 9.

Looks alot like Vista with a few minor edits here and there...

But I do like the sound of the compatability methods...

That's pretty much what it is because they have finally taken much more time and effort to work on the actual system as opposed to the aesthetics.

It is supposed to be what Vista was supposed to be released as....... only time will tell. Did you unlock the large ribbon instead of just the taskbar? There is a HACK that will unlock what MS sees, not just what they release.

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Hmm interesting...i'll have to look into that.. As far as i know, that was the only task bar.
Do you have any links to pics/vids of this ribbon?

not now. it was in either a computerworld or other tech site review. will look tomorrow.. night

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Every Piece of Electronic Equipment runs on a finite amount of smoke. The systems are normally very efficient at reclaiming the smoke and recycling it, however, should you do something to let the smoke out, your system will become useless.

SAVE THE SMOKE !!

New PC :
New: Phenom 9500 Quad 2.2, 4gb ram XP Pro 64-bit (Sata 0), XP Pro 32 bit (sata 1), 40 eide HDD (music), Pioneer Blu-Ray Burner, HP Multidisk CD-RW/DVD-Rom, 2x250 Seagate HDD's, ATI Radeon 3870, Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe WiFi-AP

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well it seem interesting new version but I don't like VISTA anyway if its good enough as test I'll buy one if not or seems like VISTA I'll ignore it forever and keep my Linux.

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Oh, keep linux....no doubt. Im just saying for M$ this product has done much better then i thought it would.

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yeah you're right at this point its good one

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thanks fro your information

linux better than windows and more secure

"Levan - One thing i am not happy about however, is they still have vista like security (windows asking permission very frequently, having to run some programs as admin etc)."

Start, Control Panel, Action Center, Security, UAC and it can be changed to whatever you like.

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EVGA 650i mobo with Intel e8400 Core 2 Duo
4 gigs OCZ 800 ddr2 ram and 160 gig sata hard drive
EVGA GTS 250 SC - Windows 7
See my test at http://www.pcpitstop.com/betapit/sec.asp?conid=23014579

Bare in mind, that over 90% of issues can be resolved by letting users not have Admin... However, the way it's implemented in Vista/7 Stinks... Speaking from an IT Department aspect, letting folks install a lot of programs locally (and in loal account access only) causes a huge loss of control. and causes a lot of problems with conflicts between standardized software and unauthorized software.
I can go on with that topic... but i won't
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Oh, btw... I have build 7000

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Beat Me, Whip Me, Make Me Use Windows!!

Every Piece of Electronic Equipment runs on a finite amount of smoke. The systems are normally very efficient at reclaiming the smoke and recycling it, however, should you do something to let the smoke out, your system will become useless.

SAVE THE SMOKE !!

New PC :
New: Phenom 9500 Quad 2.2, 4gb ram XP Pro 64-bit (Sata 0), XP Pro 32 bit (sata 1), 40 eide HDD (music), Pioneer Blu-Ray Burner, HP Multidisk CD-RW/DVD-Rom, 2x250 Seagate HDD's, ATI Radeon 3870, Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe WiFi-AP

Old PC:
P4 1.5GHz, 768 Ram, hda-80Gb (80Ubuntu), DVD R/RW

Interesting, that explains why my school along with so many others are not willing to upgrade the OS (not that its a bad thing) and often end up downgrading the new laptops. Thanks, i've always wondered =)

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windows 7 is really bad with no drivers installed but i got some now and its a hell of a lot better than vista it runs quicker to