I had the extra time today to install the RC1 beta released by MS on 5/5/09. The DVD has been sitting on my desktop for the past few weeks and I finnaly had a chance to install it today. The install was painless. Booted from CD, restructured my partitions, and off the install went. I wasn’t prompted for any input until it was time to set time zone and network settings. I filled in my login info and off I went. My home machine is not a very high end setup, with a 2ghz 64bit AMD 3200+ and 1gb ram. Windows do not fly but after turning down some of the visual ehnacements, I think the OS will fly without any issue. What made me happy was that out of the box I had zero driver issues. I had heard that this would be the case but was pleasently suprised to have nothing to clear up upon the initial boot. UAC is on by default but has been revamped so that it truly only asks you a single time. I will probably end up turning this down or off but wanted to get a feel for the improvements.
As I mentioned before IE8 won me back over recently from Google Chrome, and Windows 7 really has alot of the same concept that they put into IE8. The features are uniform and pairing the two is making for a nice experience. I’m installing many of my common apps and tools now and will be making a decision on wheter I choose to install MS Office again, or if I want to make the personal jump to cloud computing and try and get used to using webapps provided by Google. All will depend on how nice it works with my blackberry, because without that integration I will be a lost soul. Pretty sad at the dependence of tecnology to stay organized!
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