Review: Windows 7

With the Official release of Windows 7 today i feel its about time i stopped procrastinating and wrote my Windows 7 Review down.

Windows 7 is the newest Microsoft operating system to enter the market, it has a similar look and feel to Vista, but they have improved on performance and thrown out alot of the bugs.

Its very obvious that Microsoft has taken to heart the complaints of the people using Vista (I am one of the unlucky one) with constant security popups, slow indexing of files, compatability issues with programs from previous versions, and many other problems.

So the newest release has to really make up for these shortcomings with all new feature:

Windows 7 now has an automatic locking feature where you can now drag your active window to the side of the screen and have it jump to fill up, that respective half of the screen, or to the top to take up the whole screen.



Windows 7 now comes with a better warning system if you do have a fatal error the computer comes up with a warning to allow for to you save your work. It is worth noting though that this warning error occured after only 1 hour of using the Windows 7 RC version, but it may be because the secondary program i was using "VLC Player", doesn't have a Windows 7 version yet.



Windows 7 now allows you to quickly lock active windows to half the screen allowing for easy drag and dropping of files and none of the mess of flicking around trying to get the right window in view.



The Windows Vista gadgets that were once locked to the sidebar, are now able to be placed anywhere you like on the desktop, allowing for much more personalisation of the space.



Windows 7 now allows for many more built in visual desktop feature, not only changing the desktop but the look of the taskbar and start menu as well, basically its fast quick manipulation of the old "Theme" setup from previous versions



Windows 7 has made major leaps at trying to make compatibility with programs from older computers a thing of the past, the computer will automatically choose the best option for the program your trying to use, but you are also able to choose what OS it use to work on and "7" will try to emulate that OS to get the program to work.



Windows 7's explorer now includes a library just like in the last few versions of Windows media player, allowing for you to quickly find picture, video, and music files, basically its like a quick shortcut to My Music, etc for the people that actually keep all there files in the right folders.




The indexing system from Vista has been improved apon and speed up, this makes it alot easier to find files that you know are on the computer, but like me, have no idea where they are. Its a great improvement and will be popular.



Basically suming up: its better than Vista, much better, these few thigs here are what i found from 3 hours of playing around.

The fact of the matter is that its been confirmed that as part of the Australian governments Digital Education Revolution, Windows 7 will be rolled out in schools across the country, plus education students in USA are already able to buy 7 Home Premium for US$29.99, and its said that the same thing will happen in Australia as well. This mean that the next generation of school kids are going to be using Windows 7, and then their parent will have to get it at home so they can do homework.

Its a great strategy from Microsoft, and one that has proven and time tested, as the same sort of mechanic was used with the release of Windows XP, get it into the school, and then it will spread out into the homes.

As for a rating, its really to early to tell, public support is what will make Windows 7 sucessful where Vista wasn't.

7 out of 10 Stars. (It has a lot of potential!)

DocFox01 Reall bloody tired(4.20AM) signing OUT!

Day 4: My Day: 99% Fat Free

A lazy day,
with not much done,
but for me, t'was really fun.

went to the uni,
Watched a new ep of glee,
re-watch a review of fallout 3.

Came home for tea,
Reviewed Windows 7,
Realized im a nerd,
and im not going to heaven.

Adam Fox Out

Day 3: My Day: Emerging Darkness

Met Kyle for lunch,
and bought some pens,
signed some paperwork,
when will it end.

Race to the Post office,
to get a passport,
was really really late,
but they were all good sports.

Fixed my car,
and drove to work,
got some clothes,
and had a good talk.

Came home to crash
and posted poems,
cause tonight im out,
to get real smashed!

The photo is a flower that comes out at night down the path behind my house, it was 11:40 at night, and i turned the flash off and used a seperate light source from a small LED light to get the reflective light of the colour of the flower, i took 7 shots before getting the angle right.

Oh the humanity, this isn't art its the death of the english language through the description of what happened today!

- Adam Fox (Gone Drink'in)

Day 2: My Day: Flower Power

Look a pretty picture.

Saw a Doctor,
Got a shot,
The day was really hot.

Eat some pizza,
Viewed a house,
something, something, something, mouse.

Cobwebs in the wind,
Andrew's such a whinge.

Made an appointment,
Downloaded a torrent.

Watched some Tv,
Did some work,
wrote this blog cause i'm a jerk.

- Adam Fox

Day 1: My Day

Both Dan and Anna are doing blogs where they talk about things that happen to be the opposite to what they normally talk about, so i though i'd do the same thing, i'm always talking about technology on here so i'll talk my day and some nature for a week.

Today was a slow day,
I walk past some trees to school,
and i saw a Doctor.

The line was to long,
I was impatient and couldn't be bothered,
i'll come back later then.

Teaching, Passport,Centrelink, TUU, Library,
All the things i needed to do,
2 out of 5, damn!

OK i can't do that all week that took me ages :p

- Adam (DocFox01 has gone fishing)

TV Shows: Stargate Universe: Darkness

An absolutely mind blowing episode, and by far the best so far. The impression was that the ship would just keep going to different planets, and it would turn into a routine, but the way the writers change everything every single episode it brilliant. Air Pt 3 had an amazing twist in the last seconds of the episode, and yet no sign of it is shown in the newest installment, but all new twist and turns are unravelled the whole way through the episode.

The bond between the crew is becoming more apparent, and the stresses they constantly wold face in a situation like this are fully covered, i mean how many Sci Fi show go to the detail to throw in a line mentioning waste management (The toilet :p) on a space ship.

The whole episode really just show that its trying to be different to old stargate, i mean there are still little thing that seem remnant of BSG, and some that are the same as atlantis, but its not as doom and gloomy all the time, and there is still some good little pieces of humor thrown in from time to time.

Tech Talk: Google Wave

The people at Google have introduce one of their newest products at the Google 2009 I/O "seminar"? Google Wave. The idea is, integrate all of these different forms of communication into one easy to use program. As well as giving the functionality to be able to start long conversations with selected people, and retrace those conversation's at a later date. This would be useful for groups of people working on group projects but from different locations, to instantaneously talk to each other. Plus its not just text base like msn and other chat like programs but allows you to drag and drop images, documents, and i don't know what else into the conversation and allow everyone to have access to those files instantly. At the moment the beta trials of the program only allow you to ask google for an invite to test Google Wave, but it may be an interesting addition to the long list of programs i use every day.

DocFox01 AFK

Tv Shows: Stargate Universe Air Pt 1 & 2 (The Overview)

Ok so from my previous post about Stargate Universe i was rather stoked about this show coming to tv, because it look like everything i wanted it to be.

Now the actual episode's haven't gone over so well with a lot of Stargate fans, and i do have some problems with it that i will outline, but in hindsight the first episode of Stargate SG1 "Children of the Gods" i really didn't like, but from that episode onwards became a 10 year love affair with my thursday nights as a child to sit down with the family and watch SG1.

OK so the problems first,

The independence of the show, it was marks as being a totally independent spin off of Stargate, but the first two episodes have been littered with reference to SG1 and Atlantis episodes, which will make it hard for the new audience that the show is targeting to follow what is happening, like they reference the ninth symbol address coming from the ancient database in atlantis, now a newbie to the show would have no idea what that means.

Next is the over dramatization of every single character, it seems basically the whole episode is just littered with random cuts to people back stories, oh look Grears is in the brig when the attack on Icarus base happens, i wonder why? and what is Camilla Wrays link to what happened? look TJ was leaving to go to college, but Camilla think that she's leaving for some other reason, has Doctor Rush really been put in charge of everything, or is he just telling them that as a power play, and poor Chloe who's dad commits suicide in the second episode to save everyone. The only person who hasn't had a really dramatic story is Eli Wallace, but its bluntly obvious that he's been put in as the "Fan Boy" and comedic relief, he is the embodiment of a Stargate fans wet dreams, to be plucked out of obscurity by the Stargate Command and sent to a mystical place where they understand everything, and that they can't get back from.

There my two main niggles, a lot of people have complained about the sex scene thats about 15 min in to the show, but its not really a hardcore porn scene or anything, it just the writers trying to show that they're pointing at an older audience.

The good points, ok i like the damage factor of the ship, that the air filters are broken and that parts of the ship are cut off because of tears in the hull, it brings a bit more realism to the show and reminds me a bit of the last episode of BSG where the ship is falling apart.

Its obvious from the readings from people that have watch Pt3 that these first two episode are all about setting up the premise and the final part is more like what the rest of the series will be like, so i will save my judgement on the series as a whole until i see that episode

DocFox01 AFK (Away From Keyboard, Noob!)