At PDC today, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 7. Until now, the company has been uncharacteristically secretive about its new OS; over the past few months, Microsoft has let on that the taskbar will undergo a number of changes, and that many bundled applications would be unbundled and shipped with Windows Live instead. There have also been occasional screenshots of some of the new applets like Calculator and Paint. Now that the covers are finally off, the scale of the new OS becomes clear. The user interface has undergone the most radical overhaul and update since the introduction of Windows 95 thirteen years ago. Read the full article and see the screenshots at ArsTechnica.Com
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Wow…looks even more like OS X then it did before.
…you know, if Apple would ‘copy’ how to resize windows from any direction, or allow one to change the ‘explorer’ view, then I’d be more inclined to use it more.
The resize Window thing REALLY bugged me at first. Took me about a week to stop grumbling about that. Now I don’t see the big deal. Totally adjusted to it.
As far as Explorer view, Not sure what you mean. Do you mean a tree view? Because that’s in there.
That taskbar looks a lot like how I had my taskbar set up when I first started using kUbuntu Feisty Fawn.
…yeah the ‘explorer’ view can’t go list. Just details. Granted, the resizer might be mute point, but I’m constantly having to remind myself why it won’t resize when I”m over on the left side. Like I said, mute point, but something simple maybe Apple can change.
The other issue is ‘closing’ a program. I want it closed, not minimized to the taskbar.
The last one, I think I harped on this earlier, but people who use the mouse left handed, but leave setting as right handed. The Mighty mouse is not totally conducive to it.
>‘closing’ a program. I want it closed, not minimized to the taskbar.
Here’s the best way to deal with that. Just remember that Alt-F4 is Command-Q
…right on, keep forgetting about the apple-q.
One thing that is interesting with Windows 7. Is it really going to be a new code as in next version, or really Windows 6.1?
From what I’ve read it sounds like v6 RC1
…hey off topic, but one for apple. A big one.
Couldn’t load a clients hard drive in Windows XP or 2003, kept getting BSOD with Page file error in non-page area 0×00…50. No, not memory. Swapped out the drive, made it a slave to my test XP machine and still BSOD.
Booted with XP CD and even Windows 2003 Server CD and tried Repair nothing. Kept BSOD.
It is a WD 120GB, so I tried WD iso utilities said that said it was fine, The Dell onboard said it was fine, so i ‘suspected’ a virus, but couldn’t figure out how it can’t be read as a slave or even as a USB attached drive.
(I have an external USB drive/case, swapped the drive and tried mounting in Ubuntu and Windows.)
Nothing.
So out of sheer desperation I plugged it into this imac, but on the XP side (bootcamp). BSOD.
Talk about weird. Well mac rebooted and I let it go into OSX, and guess what, sees the drive and windows folder on the drive. What the hey!
Copying now to a shared folder and then into Parallels to my other 120GB USB drive.
So kudo’s for apple, saved my client’s files.
Now, I guess apple can’t read NTFS, as in can’t create folders on the other USB drive. So using Parallels to do it.
How does one format a USB drive?
…here’s something I DON”T like about apple. Can’t seem to know when one can make folders.
Meaning, I”m trying to create folder under my name “TOM” and then under Public folder. Can’t.
Can only create a folder up at the root then drag the folder into Public.
We’re obviously in the same line of work. E-mailing you rather than replying here.