Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Oct 2009 12:52 UTC
It's October 22 today. A completely random date in the grand scheme of things (we Dutch lost a big naval battle to the Ming dynasty on October 22 1633), but it also happens to be the release date of the newest version of Windows - Windows 7. Since Windows is still the most popular desktop operating system out there, this is pretty big news.
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Me too. I may try again, though.
Still, i would have liked a "better xp". There's way too much "glitz" in windows 7. Like that "command bar" that you CAN NOT remove from explorer. What's up with that? It gives me retarded "shortcuts" like "burn to cd" and stuff that i know very well how to do, and when i want to do it i'll open up nero or whatever...
And navigating the "control panel" is really confusing. Too many clicks to do simple things. And again these retarded "suggestions" in the side pane. LOL.
Also, one would have liked to think that by know, you could switch GUI/Icon theme without much effort. Think again. And the GUI engine looks pretty much like it have since windows 95 was first released. No, the pretty window borders don't fool me.
Oh, and the icing on the cake was when ActiveX (some .net equivalent) found it's way in to my firefox install without even alerting me about it. Nice touch Microsoft...
Still, it was rather stable though.