I don’t know exactly what “joebob” means by “not even any problems with programs crashing.” or, more generally: “in thebeta so far,”. Does he mean that among the entire Windows 7 Beta testing community, there has not been a single BSOD? I can vouch for several “programs crashing” in MY install, including the new IE8.

We’ll have to see how well Windows 7 does. I hope it’s very stable and fast. I’m an OS X fan, and I don’t want Apple to rest on its Vista-beating laurels. Linux is also great, though I’ve given up time and again on desktop distros due to simply not wanting to go through the learning curve yet again. (That and the constant terminal-bashing and hardware lack-of-support)

Like I said, though, Anything about Windows and Mac is trollbait to someone.

As For BSODs, there have been no BSODs in thebeta so far, not even any problems with programs crashing, and for allthe microsoft bashing mactards, vista has been roc solid, which is more that I can say about the 6 G5 systems we have at work, which crash about once a day…. if we are lucky.

Our sales guys have also moved back to windows notebooks from the macbooks they bought.

Linux is for people who are realy smart, Macs are for people who _think_ they are realy smart, windows is for people who want to get things done.

Speaking of 4OD, has the Kangaroo project died a death? I heard that Virgin, Joost and a couple of others are seeking to ban it…

It’s not parallels, though… it’s Bootcamp, so it’s a full install, running natively. The only difference is that it’s on nice hardware with a 64bit chipset, using a few Apple plugins (to make the keyboard talk to the hardware, since the MBP hasn’t got volume switches etc…)

You’d have thought, however, that they could find a better colour death-screen, even just or the Beta.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5129919/our-first-windows-7-bsod

There’s a point you’ve missed. It isn’t Vista. But really, it isn’t Vista. It doesn’t have a name, it has a number, because it isn’t Vista.

However, Windows 7 will be good to great on a huge variety of hardware, and running applications from the early 90′s onwards. That’s what it’s for. It isn’t OS X, and Microsoft don’t want it to be.

I’ll wait to see how it goes. On my Mac, of course!

“Oddly enough, the first thing that you’re likely to notice about Windows 7 is also the bit that I like the least. The new revamped taskbar is visually very interesting (and certainly a lot easier to use at higher screen resolutions that the Vista or XP taskbar), but it tries to do too much and as such comes across as kludgey and counter-intuitive. One failure is that it’s hard to tell the difference between apps that are running and shortcuts that have been pinned to the taskbar. It also incorporates the new Jump Lists feature which acts as a context-sensitive menu for applications. Problem is that there’s very little rhyme or reason to what to expect from Jump Lists, making them awkward to use in the real world.”