So the Windows 7 upgrade went smoothly for the most part, I had to locate my video card driver on my own (annoying) but the install was done in about a 1/2 hour.
Needless to say I am enjoying Windows 7 so far, there are little things that maybe don’t make things faster but just make things a bit easier and more fun.
The first thing is the taskbar and how it works with Windows 7 products like Internet Explorer 8 and Zune 3.0. It’s cool to be able to hover over the IE8 taskbar icon and see what web pages you have open and go right to them. Sure it’s similar to tab browsing but it just feels more fun to do it that way.
Actually the taskbar in and of itself feels more useful because of this little trick since you can easily and quickly see what any of your open programs are doing at any time.
Zune 3.0 for Windows 7 along with IE 8 also have “jump list” items attached to them so you can do things like jump right to a web page before IE 8 is open or resume playing or shuffle music in Zune quickly.
I’ve been a pretty dedicated user of Firefox for a long time, but I have to say using IE 8 (64 bit) and using things like web slices and suggested sights has been fun. IE 8 seems to crash a bit more than Firefox ever did but I switched to IE 8 64 bit now to see how that works.
Still early with both but so far really enjoying it. If your thinking of making the switch to Windows 7 and you’ve got the hardware to do it (pretty much any PC running Vista) I say go for it!
