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  ActiveWin.com: Microsoft Windows 7 Pre Beta M3 Build 6801 Preview
Time: 12:20 EST/17:20 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Robert Stein

Live from PDC2008, we have posted our 25 page full preview of Microsoft Windows 7 Pre Beta M3 Build 6801. Here is an excerpt:

It’s that time again. Has it been that long? Windows Vista has been Microsoft’s most public, most controversial yet most important release in the Company’s history. Consumer reception of the operating system released world-wide in January of 2007 was one of hesitance, let’s wait and see, and for those who adopted early, unforgiving. A lot of things with Windows Vista were not coordinated well, from communication, its system requirements, Industry Partnership and what value does it really offer to a Windows XP user which has dominated the market for nearly 7 years. The Company’s (OEMs) who were supposed to represent Windows Vista on their systems did so poorly initially. A lot of debate has started over this, which includes Microsoft’s alleged deal with Intel to support a particular integrated graphics chipset, the Windows Vista Capable branding and the perception that Vista was never ready out the gate. I would describe myself as being at the centre of most of these issues.

Also, our friends from WinSuperSite and Neowin.net have also posted their reviews, check them out!

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#1 By 24214 (170.63.96.108) at 10/28/2008 2:02:37 PM
A great write-up so far, thank you very much! I like a lot of what I see here.

Can you please comment on Windows 7's bult-in backup and restore mechanism and it how it compares to NTBackup and also Vista's Windows Backup?

Vista's Windows Backup IMHO essentially neutered NT Backup entirely. You can no longer select individual files/directories, making it almost an all or nothing selection which I find horrendous.

Vista's backup sets also just keep on eating up more and more of your harddrive until you decide to delete the entire backup set and start over. There is no way in Vista that I know of to configure something like "keep last 5 backups". Maybe I missed how, and if I have please correct me.

To make things worse Server 2008 also uses the same backup system as Vista. The inability to granularly select files/directories with a server backup solution is absolutely abysmal. NTBackup was a unsung hero for so many years and it one single release they destroyed it for the simplicity of most end-users.

#2 By 79018 (74.70.9.133) at 10/28/2008 2:44:49 PM
The GUI lacks the elegance of Vista, hope it can be tweaked, well there is always Windowblinds.

#3 By 32313 (72.27.169.121) at 10/28/2008 3:50:18 PM
Hi scorp508,

Thanks for reading. I didn't get to check if it could backup individual files or folders, but assume if it supports individual restorations of them, it must be a part of the back up process too.

#4 By 24214 (170.63.96.108) at 10/28/2008 4:11:24 PM
If you find yourself bored and want to check it out, that'd be great. :)

#5 By 8556 (12.210.39.82) at 10/28/2008 5:30:52 PM
"The Company’s (OEMs) who were supposed to represent Windows Vista on their systems did so poorly initially." This is more than a bit of revisonist history. MS authorized 512-MB as a minimum requirement on cheap OEM machines for the big box stores like Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc. MS laid the foundation for poor Vista performance and bad Vista word of mouth in their early zeal to please the big OEM's.

#6 By 88850 (221.128.201.137) at 10/28/2008 5:54:29 PM
1. I love the large taskbar icons. As a side effect, it'll also force lazy app developers to developer larger sized high quality icons (48 x 48) at least. (Legacy apps will look *bad).
2. The Start menu while clean is still cramped up for mouse use (when not using search). They can remove the vertical scroll bar and make it wider.
3. Icons removed from apps isn't cool and clean, they should put them back.
4. Local Area Connection properties can remain a dialog but make it more super-accessible like it was in Windows XP. 5. Hope Media Center adds DVB-C (QAM) (Digital cable in Europe and Asia) by RTM.
6. All touch features should support styluses as well for the fingerprint conscious users with sweaty hands.
7. Print jobs shouldn't get "stuck", Windows should be responsive enough to communicate with the printer and delete the print job quickly if "stuck".
8. Does BranchCache cache the program files/apps? Because Offline Files already caches documents.
9. Some lines of the review are copy-pasted from Microsoft PR pages.
10. "Ease of Access" lol or Accessibility should finally support outputting everything in grayscale like OS X does for the color blind.
11. Agree with scorp508, NTBackup was *very* featureful. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTBackup. I hope they add the features which Vista lost while the venerable XP had.

#7 By 32313 (72.27.169.121) at 10/28/2008 6:19:21 PM
Yes, MS authorized 512 MBs for Vista, they authorized 128 MBs for XP, 32 MBs for Windows 2000 and 12 for NT 4. Realistically it was a joke, XP shined on 512 or more, even 2000 Professional ran better on 512 MBs.

I am sure Dell and others saw that running Vista on 512 MBs of RAM would be horrible and they actually went with it. It not only hurt Microsoft's perception, but also the OEMs respectability. Windows 7 is not gonna change that story, its still higher in requirement than XP, if you can't find it in you to upgrade to 1 GB of RAM then might as well just stay with XP until you buy a new machine.

But a lot of the problems with Vista was OEM, ISV, IHV related. As I said in the Preview, there was a high lack of coordination. Even Mr. Sinofsky said it this morning.

#8 By 140154 (221.128.201.211) at 11/9/2008 9:51:42 AM
"Navigation has been greatly simplified, common task such as copying and moving files is more reliable, with lesser prompts, in addition to showing the name of the file you are actually copying."

Am I living in a different world because I can't see *ANYWHERE* the name of the file I am actually copying.

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