Amazing! Yes that’s the word. Yesterday I download the New Windows 7 beta and I got a chance to install at work in one of my VMware box. Believe me or not fresh copy of Windows 7 installed in just 12 min.
Other than me saying how cool and how fast it is, explore it by your self. Listen I didn’t get too much time to really play around with all other components of the OS. But definitely they have improved a lot of performance issues which they had with Vista. And I have to say the boot time is extremely faster than Vista.
The VM I allocated for this is just 512 MB RAM and it works fine and fast. But MS recommended at least 1 GB of RAM for Windows 7.
There are plenty of new features added to Windows 7. Please read,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7
http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/windows_7.asp
But the visual effect is very similar to Vista, I don’t personally see much difference between them.
Major Changes are…….
Kernel. Windows 7 carries a new Kernel (Faster Kernel), it is quite likely that the OS will include parallel processing capabilities, which will be implemented as .NET Framework 4.0 APIs.
Virtualization. “With Windows Server 2008 now shipping with hypervisor-based virtualization capabilities, it’s obvious that this technology will be making its way to the Windows client as well. Will it happen in time for Windows 7? Yes, it probably will. But Windows 7 will natively support the VHD virtual hard drive format utilized by Virtual PC and Hyper-V regardless.” Look I haven’t tested any virtualization mechanism in 07.
Sensors. Windows 7 will include context-aware application support via a new "sensors" facility. One example: A location sensor can tell "where" your PC is and compatible applications can act accordingly. Applications can use sensor information to offer customized and enhanced services, according to Microsoft’s documentation. Because of the privacy implications of sensors, this feature is opt-in and highly configurable
Windows 07 will be shipped in 2010. So there will be features getting added till then bug fixing!
