Windows 7 installed : Algorithms for the masses

Windows 7 installed

Tue 23-Dec-2008
7:03 PM
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Back at PDC this year in LA, the attendees got a pre-CTP of Windows 7. Finally, I found the time to install it on my little Dell XPS M1210, using the disk I'd been using as a trash disk for my wife's PC during its travails.

So far, all I've done is install it, download and install the NVDIA Vista drivers for the video adapter on board, and play around with the beta of IE8 that comes with it. (Needless to say, this site doesn't render well in IE8 beta, sigh.) It's nice that Vista drivers work just fine in Windows 7, none of that horror from XP to Vista migration.

I also like the "drag a window to the top of the screen to maximize it" feature, and the ability to have gadgets all over the place and not in a "bar". Mind you, shock horror, my gadgets have ended up on the left hand side of the screen. Oh well.

I'll be loading some more apps on it over the holiday season to play around with it some more.

Now playing:
Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang [Rapino Edit]
(from The Best of Heaven 17: Higher & Higher)