http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/ Engadget Comments for Windows 7 details galore: interface tweaks, netbook builds, Media Center enhancements http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
It seems very intuitive.

You can even hover over one of the docs and that goes to the foreground to show you it.]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
No more "Safely Remove Devices"?!??!? About time!]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
But yes, it should have been hideable.]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
http://www.activewin.com/screenshots/windows7/Libraries.png
]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Why would anyone want their OS to look like XP, Yuk ! ]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
iEye said to behave like XP, not look like XP. Either way, I would want windows 7 to behave like XP, to be slim and snappy, of course with all the good looking features]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/I want the control panel similar to XP and please bring back the tabs in control options.
I did not switch my laptop because I feel vista is for beginners. I takes me longer to change a setting.
I want quick user control access that is NOT DUMBED DOWN!!
oh please micro$oft,oh please. ]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
Why do everyone love XP so much? Of course it's quick on modern computers when it's about 8 years old! It's old and overrated.]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
Of course, this is just me. Undoubtably other users may find Vista seems as responsive as XP... but they likely have one of the following conditions:
1) They don't play any games past Solitaire, where the performance drop becomes most noticeable.
2) They have a new processor. The newer the processor, the better your computer will run. However XP will run even better... but at a certain point the performance gain from XP over Vista doesn't really matter much anymore. I am nowhere near there yet... Vista is simply too slow for my processor.

Even if I tweak Vista's running services, and turn off all the eye candy, there is hardly any speed boost. XP still beats Vista when all of XP's eye candy is ON, and with an anti-virus installed (I just uninstalled AVG and got a significant performance boost out of XP... and it STILL beat Vista then).

That said, I have gotten Vista to run well... when I strip everything out using vLite. At that point, it's basically the same feature set as XP (actually a bit less)... so I don't see any point in using it.

Don't get me wrong... when I get a new CPU I may very well switch to Vista. However at the moment even if I do there's little on that OS that I care for at the moment that I can't get elsewhere for free (IE third party programs etc).

Summary: I don't use Vista because I feel, for my purposes, it is overrated. XP works for me, it's faster for me, and I have no need to upgrade. That is why I (and probably many others) choose XP over Vista.]]>Oct 28th 2008 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
I don't think it's intuitive at all to have to move your mouse to see what's open. What if you just want to look at a glance, it's counter-productive for most situations, that's an extra mouse gesture you have to do every time you want to see what you've got open.

Personally i think it looks too simplistic. The reason i like XP, and Vista too for the most part is that it looked businesslike - or at least reasonably professional. This just looks a bit too "easy to use" rather than functional. I'm sure it'll actually be nice and intuitive once i've had a play on it, but for now i prefer the functionality of XP/OS X. One thing Apple got right is that their interface has been pretty much the same - and it's very good on the whole - hardware notwithstanding. Windows on the other hand has spent lots of time rejigging interfaces and i can't help but think they should have stayed with the Vista styling which was nice, instead of going for a whole new UI. In contrast, i like how the new app grouping system works. It's a nice touch, it works well when tabbing between windows so it should be good there too.

Otherwise it looks good. Jump Lists are a great idea, file browsing looks well done - i'll probably get this when it's released after i find out what the status of compatibility is, there are workarounds for most things i've found. ]]>Oct 28th 2008 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
That is a poor excuse. Quit being a such a broke fool and get vista.]]>Oct 28th 2008 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/O RLY?
Like how mac had:
-desktop gadgets (no, the widget layer doesn't count, they arent always there, you have to interact to bring it up)
-auto resizing windows
-transparancy to highlight the window you're peeking at
-OS designed for multitouch interaction.......or any kind of touch interaction
-a netbook capable OS

Yeah, they've had all these things for like 5 years...oh wait, they don't have any of them, even now.]]>Oct 28th 2008 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
Perhaps, but...

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2302499,00.asp

This is on a E6750 which is a fairly decent CPU although, since the issue was craptastic drivers, any Core 2 Duo will give you the same result.

I appreciate that if you're running an old P4 then you might be better with XP - I don't know, never tried it - but if you're buying a new PC you'd be a mug to choose XP over Vista.

Bottom line: Upgrade? No. XP on a new machine? LOL!]]>Oct 28th 2008 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/in Tiger (and in Leopard probably) you can display gadgets from Dashboard on the desktop (in devmode).
Also, Leopard was installed on netbooks (http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2008/10/13519/) and seems to run very well.
The transparency part is indeed not present on the mac, but honestly this is something that always bothered me in vista. All the transparent and blurry things behind the front window dont help me focus at all.
I agree with the auto resizing windows, seems to be a great feature.
]]>Oct 28th 2008 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/-Paul Thurrott (www.winsupersite.com)]]>Oct 28th 2008 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
Poor nerd in MS, please... please simplify the UI and dress it up like a 21st century system to give us the wow factor... I believe Mac OS is not better than Windows, but it really look gorgeous... and we really care about STYLE & FASHION

]]>Oct 28th 2008 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/-Paul Thurrott (www.winsupersite.com)

As far as I'm aware, desktop OSX doesn't support multi-touch.

The multi-touch enabled trackpads aren't supposed to replace the mouse - they're supposed to extend the things normal trackpads can do. That's why it's on the trackpad and not the screen.]]>Oct 28th 2008 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 29th 2008 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 29th 2008 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
Like Gnome? Like XFCE4? Like KDE? Like Enlightment? Or any other WM you can image in out there?]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
http://tredosoft.com/files/pictures/kde.png

Not the same but similar. I think Windows 7 looks better though.]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
Ever consider that KDE was modeled after Windows? ]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.1/screenshots/desktop.png

If you use the small Kicker panel and turn off the labels on the panel icons, you get pretty much the same look as the Windows 7 shot. I like it a lot. :)]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
Also, is that space next to the date and time the place you can click to hide the toolbar, because if so, that is very KDE-ish.

Just one other question....Is Windows 7 going to have multiple desktops??]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
KDE was made so to give people coming from Windows somthing that looked similar to the Windows Start menu/Task bar."

You are correct. But KDE also came up with a lot of it's own cool ideas as it borrowed and integrated ideas from many systems. If Microsoft wants to return the favor, more power to them.

What's cool about KDE is the high level of configurability while maintaining a familiar and intuitive interface.

There's little point in arguing chicken and eggs. Just like auto companies, software companies all copy each other and evolve their systems from what they see in others.]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
If anything, the statement "It looks like Linux" is too simplistic because of the reasons offered in the second comment. But I'm not here to bash the guy for that. In fact I'll say good spotting that, imacmatt09. It probably does look like Linux as he saw Linux, and I think you can find many Linux configurations which have for some years looked like this new Windows interface, and that's fine. As fred was trying to point out, KDE was originally designed to mimic the most familiar aspects of windows. But since that inception the KDE team has had many integrations from other window managers as well as innovations of their own. If Microsoft wants to borrow some of those things back and make a better operating system, I say go for it. It's a smart thing to do. ]]>Oct 28th 2008 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/It looked like this.
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/namepixels/pixels11_num2_answer_large.gif]]>Oct 28th 2008 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 29th 2008 4:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/Oct 28th 2008 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-details-galore-interface-tweaks-netbook-builds-medi/
I hope they keep releasing new updates every 10 minutes. This *might start looking like a blog without personal preferences interfering.

i kid!]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:11PM