Some minor criticisms of the Windows 7 beta

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I found a bug (after just installing it!). I opened the "Snipping Tool", and while it still shows up on the... whatever you call the bar where open programs and pinned programs are now displayed... it won't let me exit it and it doesn't seem to be showing up in Task Manager. Ah well.

Another thing, the preview desktop feature doesn't seem to be working for me. If I click the button beside the clock, it does the 'show desktop' but the preview feature is greyed out.

I haven't yet installed iTunes, but from the sounds of it, it looks like I'll be using Songbird for a while!

Honestly, my first impression is that I'm really impressed with MS's effort on this. HOWEVER, the UI is significantly different from what Windows users are used to. It's a bigger jump than Vista was from XP (between "Libraries" and the... program bar..) and I think MS is going to have some significant problems (again unfortunately) with users complaining it is difficult to use.

On a related, but kind of tangential note, why isn't anyone talking about the new Beta of Windows Live Messenger? Forget being miles ahead of the current stable release (though the beta itself is perfectly stable, I've been using it for months now), the new Beta, released this week, is miles ahead of the first beta!

Posted by: RockieCan   Posted on: 12/29/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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