A video blog about the new features in Windows 7 Enterprise running on a 24 inch iMac 2.8ghz core 2 duo, 4gb ram.
A video blog about the new features in Windows 7 Enterprise running on a 24 inch iMac 2.8ghz core 2 duo, 4gb ram.

The curtain has been raised (slightly) on the next installment of Microsoft’s Windows operating system – Windows 7.
Microsoft hope it will bring the internet, mobile phone and PC closer together. But reviews have so far been mixed, although reviewers have been limited to trying the (pre-beta version).
The full version is expected to be capable of working with a touchscreen screen, navigating documents and the Web similar to Apple’s iPhone. It is officially released at the end of 2009.
“I have seen the future, and it is bleak. Windows 7, the next big version, the one that was supposed to fix everything that was wrong with Vista, is here (at least in pre-beta form), and I can now say – with some confidence – that Microsoft has once again dropped the ball.
“Overall, I’m extremely disappointed with Windows 7. Far from atoning for Vista’s sins, Windows 7 simply carries them forward, visiting them upon yet another generation. Windows 7 is no panacea. Rather, it’s just more of the same: slow, bloated, and frustrating as hell.”
“When it comes to Windows 7, Microsoft hasn’t just learned from the mistakes of Windows Vista. It has picked up a thing or two from Apple’s OS X, judging by first impressions.
“It’s not clear how big the changes are so far. If you put the beta-build of Windows 7 side-by-side with Windows Vista, you’d be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Yes, some of the icons look slightly different and there’s no sidebar, but it’s essentially still the Vista look and feel. But that changes when you start to use Windows 7.
“For a start the OS won’t nag you as much; many notifications are banished to a control panel, you get to approve icons before they show up in the system tray and Microsoft has reined in Vista’s useful but annoying UAC prompts; you can choose which ones you want to see or turn them off altogether.”
“Initially Windows 7 looks similar to Vista, but there a lot of new features that have been added. Under the skin, Microsoft has been working hard. Boot times have been reduced, and certainly the review laptop Microsoft provided has a fairly snappy boot time.
“Microsoft has been working with OEMs to improve battery life – simple things such as reducing the timer frequency can improve battery life by up to 10 per cent. The networking stack has had new diagnostics added to help users figure out exactly where the problem lies.
“So, is this all a big deal? It’s not a change to the fundamental core of Windows, and most of the improvements sound relatively small. But taken together, they seem to address many of the issues people have had for Windows. I’m looking forward to trying it out, starting this afternoon.”
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at 6:01 pm
Windows 7 looks more like KDE Linux than it a Mac OS….
Linux and BSD both have preview , and many docks …
Mac users must have forgot Apple / Mac didn’t become cool until they took code from BSD, this all started when Apple tried push Steve Jobs out of Apple , and he started NeXTSTEP OS that used BSD code, later Apple started a project call MKLinux… Yep Apple had a Linux project… Then the new Mac OS was born from BSD code… Later PC-BSD came out to make BSD more like Linux.
at 6:01 pm
i have a problem with my imac
WINDOWS 7 FREEZES FROM TIME TO TIME WHEN I AM USING THE IMAC
i donno why bot it freeze like 10 sec then i work again after 5 min it freeze again, its so irritating, anyone know this problem ?
my spec:
iMac 21.5 inch intel core 2 duo 3.06 GHz 4 GB Ram nvidea Geforce 9m series
at 6:01 pm
i wonder if u got this from microsoft’s website
what kind of windows 7 do u have
also PLEASE DO NOT USE IE!!!!!!
at 6:01 pm
He said at the end that WIndows 7 is a great Operating system that could rival OSX…it’s nice but I haven’t made a complete switch to Windows 7. It’s nice and all but I love OSX better. I’m running Windows 7 Pro on my Mac Book Pro, and I rarely use Windows 7 since I installed it. I guess I’m hooked on Macs. As I say “Once you go Mac, you would never go back!”
at 6:01 pm
what about security? in vista i actually found the popup questions to tell me “are you sure you want to run this” useful, i stopped unwanted programs from running countless times.
will that be available in win7
at 6:01 pm
yes
at 6:01 pm
Your review is much appreciated!
-Tim
at 6:01 pm
Apple doesn’t officially support Windows 7… Try installing boot camp, if you on x64 your going to need to go into the administrator account after enable ling it in the user account policies. Its kind of a hack to make it work.
at 6:01 pm
no….the worst that could happen is your windows 7 could get a virus, but thats true for any windows….its not like the windows 7 partition could crash the computer if it gets a virus if it got a virus it might crash the windows partition but your mac side will be unaffected and the windows 7 viruses cant transfer thru a partition and furthermore pc viruses dont run on a mac but overall your fine
at 6:01 pm
To set the record straight, they took the big taskbar without text from windows 3.1 or something.
at 6:01 pm
Hi I have a mac also and windows 7 and installed it but not heard, everything works fine but no sound, help.
at 6:01 pm
Thanks
!
at 6:01 pm
You sure can,
exactly what my friend done
at 6:01 pm
@arjunrajesh25
no, if windows gets viruses, they have no affect on os x because windowsvirusses dont work on a mac.
And, when you instal windows 7 via bootcamp and you are in windows 7 you cant see the hdd os x is installed on because windows doesn’t recognise the filesystem of macs.
The only thing that can happen, is that windows 7 can get a virus, not os x
at 6:01 pm
HEY.
?
I was wondering , if my friend made me a copy of windows 7 w/ Activation code and burnt it to a disk. Could I use it in bootcamp
W/B ASAP! thanks
at 6:01 pm
my dad says i can’t put windows 7 on it because it could get viruses and ruin the mac is that true
at 6:01 pm
no but you can download Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 free
at 6:01 pm
does windows 7 work good on a imac ?
at 6:01 pm
Um.. Yeah, and that’s why I switched to mac. Lol Windows 7 is a total rip-off of Mac OS X. In fact, that’s how windows got started. It was stolen from Apple.
at 6:01 pm
hahah
at 6:01 pm
To all those who are bashing windows 7, have you ever used a fucking PC in your life? (besides vista) lol
I have windows 7 and its actually sexy, i also have a mac, that is also sexy
Its one big computer orgy
at 6:01 pm
Snow Leopard has many incompatibilities with tiger apps. windows 7 runs almost everything flawless. XP mode is for legacy applications (Dos, windows 3.1) I doubt snow leopard would run PPC apps of the past. Unless of course you had a ppc emulator. A+ cert tech since 98. Im running Snow Leopard, Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.1. Snow Leopard and Ubuntu are archaic. Windows 7 may not be more secure but it isnt running something from the 70s Unix is such a dinosaur. NT rules
at 6:01 pm
can you use windows virtual pc on home premium
at 6:01 pm
formatting your harddrive is no more an advanced thing to do. A noob at computers would know how to cos’ W7 is really user-friendly indeed!
at 6:01 pm
This is for everyone that is saying W7 is a “service pack” or something of the likes from Vista. I thought the same thing until I started running the RC version. The RC alone impressed me completely. I was not expecting mch, and even if I had been, I still would’ve been impressed. Is it perfect? No But it is much much better. I have had incredibly few complaints with it, it’s incredibly user friendly, and for gamers who had trouble getting addons with Vista, there is no more trouble on W7!