Windows 7: First Look

[Tellos Athenaios]

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:

~$: 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.