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. Read more »

Will Microsoft *BING* Google?

As you all should know by now, Google is the king when it comes to search, some may argue it's not useful and some worships her, but the fact is, it's the most widely used search service in the world.

A lot has tried to compete with it but deep down inside, they know it's not easy, people is so use to Google that anythin else will just slip their minds, sounds like Google has manage to embed da G in our thoughts, I think it's just a habit thing.

Compare to Yahoo, Microsoft atleast were tryin to do right with it's search engine, and tried they did, with names, from Live searches, to Kumo, all just doesn't seem to keep customers to stick with it. The latest of their efforts is call Bing, I believe it doesn't meant to mean anything, my guess it's the sound *bing*, you know....the sound when someone has an idea and a light bulb appears on top of their head..

Here we use Linkin Park as our search term, looks quite similar to Google. On the left column, there's some suggestions.

On the right side of all results there's a small orange circle which when you point at it, will give you a preview text of the site before you decide to go there.

One notable difference is the video results, if you click on the video results, a few suggested videos will appear, somethin' similar with Google, but this one actually plays if you point at it.

Bing has it's own page on Images, Videos, etc just like Google, here's the Image section, just like Google you can choose what results to show, over here we select wide version of any image.

And here we will get a poster like size if we select tall. Many of other things to try out like color and resolution too.

Again one of the unique features of Bing is the Video results, as seem here in the video section, all results can be previewed by pointing your mouse at it, it sounds like it's gonna be heaven for underage kids and porn, since you don't actually have to click to view anything, no trace can be found too I believe ;). Left side you see some options similar to Google, but I kinda like this better, it's cleaner.

It's actually not bad coming from Microsoft, there's not much comparison done by my, whichever is better is searches, Google will still be the first people go to, it's in our blood, Bing's front page is also more pleasant, with some pretty random picture everytime. And it looks like Microsoft is also planning to integrate all Windows Live account in it's searches, just like iGoogle, it's a start, but hard.

Another note is, each country has it's own preference set, I found that my country doesn't have some buttons which USA has, so it's better to set to USA to see full feature, hey if you wanna compete with Google, everyone should experience the full feature of the engine..

I just noticed if you switch to have US's main Bing page, the images might include some boxes around if you point around, and pointing at the small boxes will show information about it, hmm interesting indeed..go ahead and give *bing* a try.

On a final note, it's common people say they've googled somethin or someone, but to say you bing someone sounds like you did somethin naughty HAH, it's still on BETA btw...try it you may like it.
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