My First Thoughts on Windows 7
My father-in-law, Kyle, upgraded his laptop to windows 7 tonight. I am surprised he didn’t upgrade sooner with how much he hated Vista. It makes me wonder if Vista was a big planned marketing scheme, but I digress. On to the real topic.
He asked me why something didn’t work prior to the upgrade so took a look at the machine. I was actually pleasantly surprised. I found a few things quite refreshing,
* The directory structures are a much welcomed improvement. By contrast however I couldn’t add something to the start menu because I couldn’t find the directory. All the forums I found refereed to non-existent directories.
* The power shell is actually useful. And familiar commands such as ‘ls’ and ‘man’ actually work. It makes me wonder if that has something to do with this article from slashdot.
* The system monitor in the management pane is actually useful and customizable.
* They fixed the problem with windows explorer not burning DVD’s (the original complaint) so Kyle was happy.
* I was pleased to find that the computer ran rather snappy. Didn’t seem sluggish at all.
* It is pretty, but you know what, most of the tray icons and things look like the ones in ubuntu Karmic.
Otherwise I was perplexed that in the upgrade it moved the entire Vista windows folder to Windows.Old and I was able to run programs that were in the ‘Program Files’ folder within that. I am not sure why, it seems very strange to me because Windows relies so heavily on registry entries to run anything.
It seems to suffer from some of the same old problems. The home version is watered down to the point of being crippled and you still have the default share of C$. Also viruses are a concern, but otherwise I was actually pleasantly surprised.
Tags: Application Review, Windows
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