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• October 30, 2008 •
Last Tuesday at its Professional Developers Conference 2008 (PDC2008), Microsoft shared the first full public demo of Windows 7 and also delivered a pre-beta build of Windows 7 to PDC attendees and announced plans to release a full Windows 7 beta early next year.
"We are excited to be delivering a pre-beta developer release of Windows 7 today at PDC2008," said Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president of the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group. "With our new approach to planning and development we now have a great foundation for our partners to start learning and innovating on this exciting new version of Windows."
Windows 7 is very similar to Vista architecturally, but almost every aspect of the system has been tweaked and polished in some way, resulting in a better overall experience. Windows 7 will boot and run faster than Vista, take up less disk space, and will be more customizable. Sinofksy said that it would even run wonderfully on the low-end netbook computers that are now shipping with Windows XP.
Vista's user account control feature--the source of much anger by Vista users--has been scaled back dramatically and rarely prompts the user anymore. And multi-touch features are imbedded deeply into the system; letting people with next-generation hardware interact with the system in new ways.
I will be taking a look at Windows 7 soon, and post more information on the HelpWithWindows Web site.
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