Windows 7 first impressions

I took it upon myself to overnight-download the new free windows 7 beta build, burn it to a DVD as an ISO, and install it on my Vista Home Premium partition. And may I say im beginning to like it.

One of my first and biggest gripes with windows vista was its overall instability. Yes I was an early adopter, and yes, i did download service pack one. I was a PC enthusiast at the time, I played a few PC games including Counter-Strike Source and a few others, i was concerned on the state of my PC's hardware, and I was obsessed about performance. I loved XP, I was a fan of its (relatively) tightly-knit kernel archetecture, easy of use, overall performance, and of course i loved the novelty XP tellitubby theme. It was easy to use, a huge performance jump over Windows 98 and the dreaded Milennium Edition, which, god save me, i had to suffer through. I stuck with XP, generally liking it as an overall package.

Then vista rolled around, Im a sucker for nice aesthetics, and it looked like Vista had it all under the hood. I had heard stories of how it would be so much secure, an overall tighter and better performing shell, and just an overall step up in the modern computing world in a demanding market. Apple was pushing OS X, violently, throwing every jab it could at Microsoft as if there was no tomorrow. Vista was the supposed answer to the flashy OS X and all its bells and whistles - the lovely dock, the nice and catchy software that would always be named I-something-or-the-other, the performance, and the impregnability to any sort of virus or hacker threat. I immediately obtained Vista, and hit a brick wall.

Problems? You name em: driver problems, crashing, aero and graphics glitches, hardware incompatibility, hiccups in computing, RAM hogging, cheap, gimmicky USB superfetch nonsense, etc, etc. My games wouldnt run as well, my hardware couldn't carry as much weight, when it worked that was, performance took a hit, and I just wasnt feeling the new wave Microsoft was going for..not to mention the goddamn UAC that kept popping up in my face...ohh the horror. Luckily I partitioned my hard drive rather than upgrading from XP, so I always had my tellituby-laden trusty fall back lying opn the other half of my HDD.

I didnt want to go back, there were just too many hoops to hurl myself through to attain the same, superior experience i was already having with XP. It wasnt worth it for me, and i felt as though i had wasted that 65 gigs i had spent on that HDD partition. Service pack 1 didnt really do it for me, at that point i was already sour with that vista-y after taste in my mouth. I just watned the next tightly-crafted package from microsoft to not be a faulty piece of bloatware all in itself, but this is microsoft after all.

I was wrong here, i thought windows 7 would just be an even flashier vista with a Mac-ier feel. It takes what vista does right and eliminates what vista does wrong. It feels like an overall more comprehensive package that definitely runs more efficiently, isnt as much of a resource hog, packs more features, is easier and friendlier to the user, and is sexy looking to boot. I've only been toying with it for about a day now, but full impressions and a grander description of this fresh and so-far impressive OS shall come at a later date.

And this was the guy who wrote that silly Wii rant.
For fun nintendo warriors, for fun.
=-P