Comments on: More of “what’s new” in Windows 7: MinWin, Aero Shake and .ISO burning

By: BarryC

BarryC — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:19:36 +0000

Kevin,

It’s great that Win7 is faster than and has a smaller footprint than Vista.

How does it compare to XP?

Thanks,
Barry

By: AllanCJ

AllanCJ — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:28:34 +0000

I'm not sure I take so much comfort from the fact the Office 2007 staff are involved with this. My frustration with Word 2007 has driven me back to Office 2000 on one computer. On another I've bought a small add-on that gives me back the menus.

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:01:48 +0000

hmm, iso. now all thats needed is a formaat converter. not bad.

i cant shake the worry of another longhorn tho. but im tempted to get hold of a build and give it a good spin in a vm.

By: GoodThings2Life

GoodThings2Life — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:45:04 +0000

I’m very impressed with what I’m seeing in the Windows 7 screenshots and videos. I certainly can’t wait to get my hands on it myself!

I think they made the right decision by bringing so many Office 2007 project managers, designers, and developers over to the Windows 7 team. They demonstrated with Office that they can make the end-user experience their top priority, and it’s nice to see them giving the same influence to the Windows team.

By: jaytv111

jaytv111 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:59:11 +0000

how about hard drive space? how much space does Win 7 take up?

By: KTopera

KTopera — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:58:43 +0000

Interesing stuff, Kevin. Some interesting productivity improvements in Win7 without too much penalty (hardware, learning curve, chattiness, etc.).

Tab preview in IE8 is a useful catch-up to Opera v9.0 preview (from Feb. 2006). Follow the leader (though, much unfairly abused).

By: vance

vance — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:51:26 +0000

What about indexing? Does your hard drive run for several minutes after booting?

By: Scott_H

Scott_H — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:47:36 +0000

I was watching some videos of Win 7 from PDC08, and when they showed the IE tab preview my first thought was, “Holy cow. That would be a disaster if you had more than a few tabs open at once.” As someone who normally has dozens of tabs open at once, I’m curious to know how Win 7 would handle that.

FYI, you can see videos of all of the keynotes and sessions at PDC08 here:

https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx

By: Tim Hightower

Tim Hightower — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:34:49 +0000

Kevin - how has your battery life been with Win7 versus Vista on the Wind??

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:34:08 +0000

*crosses fingers for Windows 7 genius-phones*