Seventh time lucky?
Only a matter of days before Windows 7 is released. Oh, the anticipation.
I happened to take a look at one of the beta versions and was kinda underwhelmed. Sure, the ability to ‘snap’ windows to either side of the screen is handy; Sure, being able to see the contents of the windows is useful even if it was there in Vista; HomeGroup I actually think is something quite cool and if I was a Windows user might get me excited—but enough to make me spend 150 quid; The icons on the taskbar are a good idea even if NeXT came up with that idea quite a while ago; And the ability to ‘Search on your PC the same way you search on the Internet’ was in Vista right, and OS X and Google Desktop before that.
They are the 5 top features according to Microsoft, some are little things that could have come out in a patch that no-one would have noticed, some are big (if dated) interface changes and some are things that were in their last OS. Now I know, a lot has gone on under-the-hood. There haven’t been many changes to Apple’s OS with Snow Leopard, but they only charge 30 quid for it.
I will be interested to see what kind of response it gets. All I can say about it is this: at least it looks better than Vista.