Watching Microsoft bungle their way through the woeful and clunky Windows Vista saga was both entertaining and frustrating, so what can we really expect from Windows 7?
Quite a lot, as it turns out, at least in the early going. According to Seth Rosenblatt, editor of CNET, "Windows 7 is more than just spin. The public testing process, involving one limited-availability beta and one release candidate... constitutes what some are calling the largest shareware trial period ever."
With a new sophisticated and translucent style, 7's taskbar is now being compared by some to the glorified and iconic Mac OS X dock. This shiny new look is all thanks to Aero Peek, the feature that allows for the taskbar's polished luster as well as improved usability.
But praise for the resurrected taskbar does not stop there as it also sports a handy mouse-over and preview feature as well as what it calls "jump lists," a file organization and display method similar to Stacks, a feature introduced in Mac OS version 10.5 (Leopard).
No less impressive, changes to Windows Media Player, in the words of Rosenblatt, actually "makes [it ] useful again." Simplified set up, improved usability, and the technology to stream from computer to computer even out of network are some of the keynotes that rescue WMP from the dusty software storage chest.
Despite all of this, and with Vista looming as a not so distant lesson, many of us may still be feeling just a little bit tentative
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