I’ve had less time to play with it on my desktop as I have on my laptop, but I’m sure my exprience will be just as good. I think Microsoft got it right this time.

The final RTM should be pretty decent, they refined a lot it looks like. The only time it runs through memory is when that process is running. Yeah Ryan it’s looking pretty good I also noticed that Microsoft pushed an update to try and disable the “hack” to enable the Super Bar. I logged in after updates and there are “Updates being pushed” for the Pre-Beta, and my task-bar had reverted to standard.

So I don’t know what’s really going on with Microsoft if your going to let us play with it, let us at all the features not just some.

But the Pre-Beta is worth the aggravation to setup with features folks, I’m really enjoying it. Microsoft doesn’t really do anything by accident. (There’s stuff they won’t swear too though) But it’s worth every minute of time spent with it.

I’m really glad to hear that with your first-hand experience things are looking pretty good so far. I can’t wait to see what the final release is like.

I started running it in a Virtual Machine (Virtual Box) but the limitations imposed by running it Virtual on my machine just wasn’t worth loading so I decide to partition and setup a Dual Boot on my drive and after loading and adding the necessary hardware driver updates along with the “Fix” for accessing the Super-bar all I can say is for a pre-beta it’s pretty darn nice they addressed quite a few issues at least in the Ultimate Windows 7 edition.

It pretty much shakes out as advertised and then some. Another feature that doesn’t seem to get much press right now is the fact that they added a Compatibility Wizard which will change the permissions for a given program for you. The preview panes are spectacular versus the previews in Vista as is the grouping of windows but it is not without issues. But if it’s this great as a pre Beta it will be “the bomb”(really Great) on delivery.

If you do get you hands on Windows 7 build 6801, you can activate your copy if you participated in the Vista Beta Program by using that same KEY that activated the Vista Beta otherwise you’ll only get 30 days to play with it. Now a public beta has been hinted at for mid to late December but that’s just hints, it may not arrive till next year sometime.

But the Pre-Beta is worth the aggravation to setup with features folks, I’m really enjoying it. Microsoft doesn’t really do anything by accident. (There’s stuff they won’t swear too though) But it’s worth every minute of time spent with it.

Awesome roundup guys, thank you so much. Looking forward to Windows 7, so far, it looks absolutely terrific.

No problem. We had been collecting all of the Windows 7 news, and thought that we had more than enough to do an article dedicated only to what we found. We also wanted to get everyone up-to-speed as to what Windows 7 will bring, because not everyone goes hunting around for some of the details like this.

I actually think that it will be very good since they have finally rethought the Taskbar. That has become one thing I think has needed to be revamped for a few years now, and I was disappointed that Vista didn’t have any changes in that regard. I think the new layout will definitely help boost productivity, especially with the peek functionality.

That’s definitely a good point. And yes, it is only in those three versions of Vista. Why they didn’t at least put it in Home Premium is beyond me.

I’m a little skeptical on how good Windows 7 really is. It certainly looks good on paper, but will it be just as good in the real world? As the saying goes, “The proof is in the pudding.”

Let’s just hope file copying works this time