Windows 7: First Look

**LeftEyeNine** · 10-31-2008, 03:50

AMD has released beta Catalyst drivers for Windows 7, which is not even beta yet.

**CountArach** · 10-31-2008, 05:48

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't they try to get Vista right first?

**KukriKhan** · 10-31-2008, 14:12

Originally Posted by CountArach

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't they try to get Vista right first?

LOL. Fix an already-sold product, when you can sell an altogether new product?

Commie.

:) j/k o'course, CA.

**LeftEyeNine** · 10-31-2008, 15:06

Originally Posted by KukriKhan

LOL. Fix an already-sold product, when you can sell an altogether new product?

Commie.

**Husar** · 10-31-2008, 20:27

I wouldn't be surprised if they want to move past Vista because everybody hates it anyway. Once everybody has hated it for a few months it's almost impossible to change their opinions unless you release another product which is either worse so people will value the old product for being better or which is actually better so people will buy it.

**CountArach** · 10-31-2008, 23:13

Originally Posted by KukriKhan

LOL. Fix an already-sold product, when you can sell an altogether new product?

Commie.

:) j/k o'course, CA.

It's so true...

**Tellos Athenaios** · 11-05-2008, 16:24

From what I've seen there's little to get excited about. It looks like Vista, and it's largely going to behave like Vista with just one (thankful) exception: it promises to allow you to turn off all those pesky notifications.

But it's basic (not too water-thight) security system hasn't changed all that impressively. It's file management system: haven't heard they'd ditch NTFS. It's directory service: well, same stuff by the looks of it. Is it going to support pipes, finally? Will it have a proper shell, for a change? Will it feature a more modular design (so as to allow me to uninstall like 10-20% I don't need/want)? Will it actually allow me to choose what to install?

I'd be way more excited if the screenshot had shown something like a shell with (equivalents to) the following code:

Code:

~$: tar -xvf foo-*.tar.gz ; cd foo-*; ls -a | grep 'bar' >> list_of_files_in_tar.gz

That would mean much: (a) pattern matching on the command line; (b) proper, working function that changes working directory; (c) file listing command; (d) I/O redirection; oh and (e) no more need for the extension guessing game the OS *knows* what it stored in the file system.