Windows 7. In a neat little nutshell: It’s Vista, but the Vista we wanted back in 2007. Polished, working, ready for whatever you throw at it, and with the endless UAC prompts forever banished to whatever hell we’re meant to send well-meaning, but ultimately insufferable attempts to help us out We don’t know exactly where that is, but we’re pretty sure that Oprah record a chat-show there.
Unlike Microsoft’s previous operating systems, Windows 7 received a massive public beta. Chances are you’ve already downloaded it, and if not, at least at the time of writing you could still get yourself a product key from the website, should a ‘friend’ happened to have downloaded it in time. Even if you don’t want to risk a beta OS on your computer, all this is a good sign that we won’t be waiting long for the finished code, and that it’ll be worth the incredibly short wait. Even now, it’s incredibly stable, fully functional, and far more reliable than it has any right to be.
Not only does this mean that the final release should be good to go out of the box, every developer and hardware manufacturer out there is playing with the same code, readying drivers, updating installation systems, and generally getting ready to go. Read more…
