Monday, June 22, 2009

Windows 7 will dominate?

So what's all this Windows 7 hype? Will the next OS be better than Windows Vista, I would agree Windows Vista did scare a few loyal Microsoft fans away to Apple, or just stick to Windows XP, so rumor has it that the life of Windows XP will end in the year 2011, so where will they go next? I'm sure Vista is not an option, maybe they will up using a Mac, I think the success of Windows 7 is very important to Microsoft. So what do they have up their sleeve?

I never get a chance to download and try it out when it was available for download, another great move for users to try it out and install on a wide variety of system, so when problem arise, Microsoft knows and will fix it, so far it's been all good.

Here's how the startup looks like in the Beta and RC version, look like Vista


One of the big difference is the quick launch, pointing at it will give you a preview.


There's a lot of new features which I didn't get in, but what is it so different from Vista? Back in the day of Windows 98 moving to Windows XP, a system upgrade is necessary, and from Windows Xp to Windows Vista another system upgrade is recommended, I would say a 2GB RAm would be ample to experience Windows Aero and such, so do you need an upgrade for Windows 7? That would suck now would it?

People were sayin that Windows 7 works very well on netbooks, a smaller version of a notebook, it probably won't mean much, it's a modern device anyway but not as powerful as a notebook, some people have been reviewing and testing Windows 7 to see how fast it works on some application and games, which all seems good so far with the next generation of DirectX; DirectX 11, of course you don't require to upgrade your graphics card, DirectX 9 and 10 and 10.1 will still work with it, thank god.

But I believe testing how slow it can go is also has a strong point, what I meant is can a slower system run Windows 7, since it can run on a netbook, I guess people is curious to find out. And it's true, some people get it to run on a Pentium II system with 96MB-128MB RAM, that's right.

Here's the screen for a user running it on his Pentium II 96MB system


Here's the screen for a user running it on his Pentium II 128MB system


So if you have Pentium II with 128MB RAM, you can't even run Windows XP let alone Windows Vista, but you can run Windows 7? now that's one strong point, Microsoft did a good job in this area. Now everyone can use Windows 7 without upgrading their system like Windows Vista required.

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