Impressions of Windows 7
From 15 August 2009, Windows 7 Professional, is available for members of the MSDN Academic Alliance, therefore, could not move past this situation with indifference. This is part of the experience of using the new windows.
Installation
I did not expect problems, already at this stage. As it turned out problems that were closer to the unknown nature, and it is because the first. Iso downloaded from MSDN, when asked about the driver installation CD. As it turned out, re-download. Iso from the same place and recording the next CD, resulting in a seamless installation.
When you think how far the fastest installation among modern releases of Windows (98/2000/XP/Vista/7), the computer was ready to work with the majority of drivers on board, as a very positive surprise. Moreover, seven, immediately found an unsecured network and joined to it, and began the process of downloading updates.
The thing that I do not necessarily like it, especially because it was said that this will be changed, is that after the first updates to the system requires ... restart. I realize that this is programmatically difficult task, especially if it came to update the kernel itself, but nothing is impossible, especially for the Dominator which is Microsoft.
News
In this area, by far the greatest changes occurred in the taskbar. The icons are grouped when there is the same application and each application has a context menu available from the right mouse button, to which additional options can be added by the programmer.
The new wireless network management center, and make faster connections themselves are worthy of praise.
One of the interesting innovations, such as attracting the windows to the edges of the screen. Also, widgets, as opposed to Vista, can be freely deployed on the desktop (no docking panel).
Most of the news, you can freely operate in the keyboard shortcuts that more broadly, are described here .
Performance
Here I met a very positive surprise, since the performance compared to XP, where I used to work, is much better. Probably a significant influence on it, was the fact that I replaced a laptop drive with 5400 rpm / min at 7200 rev / min, but the jump is really huge in my opinion.
Moving from Windows XP
This process, called for some time, but some of the programs allows you to transfer most settings by copying the folder with the settings of the program, which is located in the user file system. This was the case Tlen'a and Firefox.
Problems emerged, however, the setting of the file's owner (Windows XP Professional allows you to set the file's owner files), and therefore, it was necessary to change the owner, for the which I was logged on to the seven there. How to do it, you can read here . After these changes, the user has access to all files on the disk with XP'kiem.
Try disabling UAC, especially in the beginning, when we need to install quite a number of proven firmware, because they often show a dialog asking for confirmation, it can lead to madness. How to do it, we can find out here (in the case of Seven, this is done the same).
Update 7 September 2009
I also encourage you to read the entry for new windows, the blog Bartek .
Well, I see that W7 should not disappoint. As you know he downloaded from the same place, but there was no time for installation and testing. But it's time to do this. How powalczysz running longer and then write the first positive impression has persisted