I tried the "pre-beta" and it ran very smooth.. but lacked some of the features that are supposed to be in the actual beta... I am downloading the beta right now. Hopefully they fixed the wireless support problem from the pre-beta. I will run it through its courses and see whats up and report back.

EDIT: Dang I used the word "beta" like 547 times in that short beta post. This release is Beta 1.1 (beta fix)

I posted in the shoutbox that people should check it out when the beta was "leaked" early.

Chaomel when you say pre-beta do you just mean the beta that was released early (as in build 7000)? Because it is the same version that was released, just didn't have the validating component of a key - unless you mean an earlier build.

I have it installed on my computer. I intend to keep it until August when it dies (all the while updating to newer versions as they become available. It's nice. Although, I liked Vista. I don't see why people are hailing down to Windows7 as if it's so much better than Vista. Yeah, it's improved in a lot of key areas but on the whole theres less than 10 general areas of improvement that they're advertising so far. Peoples actual problem with Vista was that it wasn't the same UI they were so used previously with XP (weather they admitted it or not). Now we have a newer OS that doesn't strafe to far from Vista's UI and it's all "this is so brilliant" because people have been familiarised.

So, Vista was the compass point which was needed to direct us to Windows 7 and I'm happy for it. But I wish people would stop trashing it.

Yeah. I herd the 6000 builds were fairly unstable, did you find this Chaomel?

Something unexpected happened with my wireless card... I installed the driver and it DIDN'T want me to reboot :O :O. It worked straight away. Since when did windows not need to reboot to load a driver?

I still wish they would make the desktop more customizable, like having panels with widgets. Ideally I want to us kde as the shell :)

They tried to keep the architecture as similar as possible to keep the number of already compatible hardware high. If it works with Vista is probably works with Windows 7 (or not work in your case).



I didn't think rebooting was a necessary part of installing all drivers. BIOS needs a reboot but other than that I don't think a lot need it???



To the whole desktop being a widget panel - I would say that's not strictly true. But kind of is in a sense. Even with vista you could take the gadgets out of the sidebar and put them where ever you wanted on the desktop - so there's nothing new there.

The sidebar doesn't have it's own process anymore so I would assume it has been integrated into explorer. But I wouldn't think it uses anywhere as much memory as before. Instead of an actual sidebar there is nothing, however, the gadgets snap to the side of the screen into the position you would be used to storing gadgets. Or you can just place them where ever (as with Vista).

In the bottom right corner there is a little area (less wide than a scrollbar of Chrome) that you can hover over to make the windows all go transparent showing only their outlines. It's good for a quick look at gadgets, not that I've found myself doing this. You can also click it to use the show desktop functionality as par previous windows versions.

Actually, I can't wait for some form of release for either Midori or the Singularity project, though some people say that Midori is an evolved form of Singularity.

yeah lol. I think the timestamp function didn't properly support years or something. Kind of like zunes not supporting leap years and bricking themselves.