Windows 7 Beta: Good or Bad?

Published by Charl Norman on Jan 8th, 2009, 1 Comment

windows 7 beta Though Vista is much more stable than the Windows XP Pro, many people decided to ditch it because it’s a resource hog like no other. But in the meantime, MSFT has been working hard on Windows 7 which is now in Beta mode. Renai LeMay of ZDnet Australia got a look at the new OS and the first impressions are pretty good.

Windows 7 is built on Vista’s strengths and managed to get the flaws taken care of, but it’s still far from being perfect. Faster, running simultaneous applications better than its predecessors, with photo-realistic device icons and an accent on security (they advise for a 3rd party antivirus like AVG or Kaspersky), it has much more of that nebulous “Windows XP feel” than Vista ever did.

It sure looks like Microsoft spent a great deal of time to please customers and if the final version is going to be like the first impressions, Windows 7 is going to be the next XP when it comes to sales and customer satisfaction.

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My problem with Microsoft is that they release everything with out having given it a good testing. Yes, I understand that is the point of BETA but you cannot release something with tons of bugs such as the IE 8 BETA which is terrible.

Let us hope that they get this right with Windows 7 because I really think this is their last chance before they get eaten up by Open Source and Apple!

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