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My recent Linux posts notwithstanding, I finally had some time this week to play with the Windows 7 Beta. I was surprised. I haven't had much experience with Vista except to install it and use it enough to decide I didn't likeit. I also attempted to use it on the computers of some family members. So far, Win 7 is everything Vista is not. It didn't have drivers for my SCSI, video or audio adapters but I was able to load the XP drivers and it ran just fine. Vista did not want to load them or the driver for my DVD burner.
It loads much faster than XP and even faster than Linux on the same machine, although I will retest this after I clutter it up with antivirus, software etc. The install is much more straightfoward than it is with XP and lets you load drivers from USB key if you want to. Everything is in a slightly different place so that will take some getting used to. I've installed a few apps and so far it is pretty stable. The one thing I don't like is file/printer sharing. On the surface it insists I create a workgroup when I share out a folder or printer. I need to investigate this to see if I can make it stand-alone.
It loads much faster than XP and even faster than Linux on the same machine, although I will retest this after I clutter it up with antivirus, software etc. The install is much more straightfoward than it is with XP and lets you load drivers from USB key if you want to. Everything is in a slightly different place so that will take some getting used to. I've installed a few apps and so far it is pretty stable. The one thing I don't like is file/printer sharing. On the surface it insists I create a workgroup when I share out a folder or printer. I need to investigate this to see if I can make it stand-alone.
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