The first impression was good, besides all the eye candy, which is nice, it really felt a little less bloated than the usual Vista.
It has this new "super taskbar" which changes a little the taskbar functionality for the best.
I felt so comfortable with it that I installed my last purchased game: Rainbow Six Las vegas 2, that i bough on Steam (on sale :) ). And then it happen, the Vista flashbacks:
I can't go online with my laptop if i connect it through the Ethernet cable!? It works flawlessly if i connect through the wireless?!
After going over all the firewall settings (which are numerous), i could not connect through Ethernet, even if I disabled the firewall.
I have some friends with Vista that have the same problem in reverse.
It's my guess that Vista and it's brother 7, differentiate the two connections to which level, still eludes me.
Windows 7 the good:
- Felt more lightweight (almos like Windows XP)
- Nice eye candy
- Taskbar with no labels ( i use my windows xp taskbar on the right of the screen, cutting the labels too, unfortunately windows 7 taskbar on the right looks bulky)
- Game performance is better than Vista, but not as good as in XP (Rainbow Six Las vegas 2 )
- Unexplained connection problems: Can connect through wireless but not Ethernet?!
- Can't access OSX Leopard "windows" shares (protocol change? Does not accept previous version of the protocol)
- Huge control panel
- disperse network settings, even redundant (you can go to the same settings in 5 different ways)
Don't fool yourself, Windows 7 in side it's all Vista . And of course it's a Beta, but this excuse works both ways: They haven't shoved all the functionality/bloatness/DRM manager in to the OS.
