Living with Windows Seven - also known as Windows Vienna and BlackComb

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Living with Windows Seven

Microsoft was not exactly successful at the time Vista was new, it took almost sport to hate Vista more. Criticism was particularly that it required too many resources and were generally too bloated (filled with unnecessary things). And also, as it was also heavily criticized for not working fully developed, mainly due to lack of hardware and software support (and due to bugs).

Fortunately, Microsoft has set itself to school and tried to listen.

Those who have tested the versions of Windows 7 as lying around on the net saying generally that it acts as a very stable operating system. Since I am myself one of them, I can say that they are right. When I tried Windows 7, it seemed, in my view, more stable than Vista (I am experiencing a once in a while various weird things in Vista). So even if Windows 7 is still not developed, it seems more fully developed than Vista seemed at the time Vista was "fully developed".

I have not made direct tests of how fast Windows 7 is, but it feels noticeably faster to start up programs, and the system itself has also been quicker to start. And to sleep computer are also faster than it was in Vista

Well, it was the changes are not directly visible. Now for the changes that are a little more visual.
Windows 7 has got a new taskbar (the one nedest on the screen where the clock is right and start button to the left.)
I would argue that the biggest change in how to handle open windows since Windows 95 Because there is no longer 1 per icon. open window, but instead each. program. So if you eg. working on 2 different word documents there is only 1 icon down in the task bar. (The default setting can be changed to almost look like Vista)

Whether this is a good or bad change will probably depend on whom you ask. And I do not know exactly whether I am for or against, for it has become harder to keep track of it, for example. has 7 open Word documents. But I think it's about addiction, and when you've finished it, so I think it works just as well or better than what you came from.
But one feature of the new taskbar, I find it difficult to do without, it is called jump list. This is a list of nyligst files for the program, and you can also drag the files down so they "owned" program. It is extremely useful if you eg. working on the same document over a longer period, and the document is located deep in various subfolders.

When Windows 7 schedule, there are many discussions about. Some believe that it has already become this summer, but even I am not that Windows 7 will be published before September-October 2009.

Download links to the LEAKED version of Windows Seven build 7600 were found by using google.

( It's only a service pack 3 for Vista ) Windows "Vienna" (formerly known as Blackcomb) is Microsoft's codename for a future version of Microsoft Windows, originally announced in February 2000, but has since been subject to major delays and rescheduling. As of February 2007,same day as this page is uploaded, the name of the operating system used internally is undisclosed and is not used publicly by Microsoft.

That would be a much faster turn-around than Vista, which shipped more than five years after Windows XP, but Vista was exceptional, said Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft's Windows Core Operating System Division this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

Microsoft originally planned for its XP follow-up to include a number of radical changes to Windows, including a new file system and a reinvented user interface, but after the company's products were hit by widespread worm outbreaks in 2003, Microsoft redirected almost its entire engineering effort to locking down Windows with the XP Service Pack 2 release.

"We put Longhorn on the back burner for awhile," Fathi said. "Then when we came back to it, we realized that there were incremental things that we wanted to do, and significant improvements that we wanted to make in Vista that we couldn't deliver in one release."

Vista shipped about two-and-a-half years after XP SP 2, and Vista's follow-up is expected to take about the same amount of time, according to Fathi. "You can think roughly two, two-and-a-half years is a reasonable time frame that our partners can depend on and can work with," he said. "That's a good timeframe for refresh." That time line would put Microsoft's next client operating system out by the end of 2009. Last year, Microsoft said that the code name for this Vista follow-up is Vienna, but Fathi said he could not disclose the current name. "We've been told not to use it publicly," he said.

So what will be the coolest new feature in Windows Seven?..."The Shaker". Sad to see that Outlook Express has gone, and that feature will not be comming back to Windows

According to my intel, that's still being worked out and we're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is, maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers.""It's too early for me ( Webmaster ) to talk about, but over the next few months I think you're going to start hearing more and more."