Windows 7

[bjvanwash]

What's the deal with this new Windows 7 coming out? I have only heard very little about it. Does anyone here have any info on how good it is? I have a friend who said he got a beta copy of it and he said it was a lot better than vista. Unfortunately, I didn't find out much more than that. Please send me your thoughts and comments. I would love to hear more about it from users of HTS.

[insomaniacal]

I've heard people say that it was comparable in speed to Windows XP, so that's good. I used the Alpha release (which was never officially released to the public, but was leaked all over torrent sites ages ago), it was quite speedy, looked pretty, and I had no problems running some older programs meant for XP.

Apparently, the public beta has slowed down quite a bit, but I never bothered to try it out. I hear from some people that its a resource hog like vista, but again, I have no personal experience with it. Supposedly, it is also coming with a Windows XP compatibility layer, which basically installs a copy of XP on your disk, and lets you use XP whenever you need to run some legacy software. This, however, seems like a giant resource whore. Maybe a step forward to eliminating some legacy code in Windows itself, but I'm sure they could have found some better way to emulate XP other than actually running the entire O/S in the background.

[The Riviera Kid]

Is it still using visual basic to display the taskbar? I put all my programs there instead of desktop or start menu but when it has to first cache icons it all it's painful to wait and watch, i wonder if the will ever write the gui for windows in directX
Seems like a gud idea though - they have it why not use it

edit: I'm still on XP btw, though i have the ram for vista i don't think that should be why i get it