The problem with geeks is that we want to try new things all the time without the fear of breaking things which work perfectly fine right now:

Enter Windows 7…

Yep. Nothing better to do.

But moving on from that bitter sweet moment of truth, Microsoft tomorrow releases the beta to the public that are hpoing that Windows 7 isn’t as effing awful as Vista was.

And before anyone says anything, I use Vista at work, things are still broke even now such as Group Policy Management console freezing, the slow response from network resources, the hard drive still grinds on occasion despite the service pack, high memory usage and the drain on the poor crappy Intel graphics chipset is more heartbreaking than those silly adverts to sponsor a donkey.

So there, I win. All hail me.

Now because I’m a little gunshy about Windows 7 as a result of the previous OS, I haven’t floored the EVILBEAST of DOOM with the beta just yet. It’s sitting in a VM by itself, with 2GB of RAM, both cores at the ready seeing as Vista raped ye olde single processor machines without caring. And so far, the experience has been pretty much the same.

There are some differences like the updated Media Player that can play DIVX out the box, Paint and Wordpad have been sexed up to look like Office 2007, and things have been moved around again. And there is a handy screen capture thing built in called “Snipping Tool” which will help with print screens….if you care about that that is…err….That’s as far as I’ve got really.

Performance on the VM is woeful as the HD is being bent over the desk and made to feel like a dirty girl. Yes, that’s the second sex phrase I’ve worked into this so far.

The gadgets don’t seem to work, IE8 breaks websites due to MS not keeping to standards for so long, then changing their minds and well just the fact it reminds me too much of Vista, I’m undecided. Far too early and there is next to nothing on there to see if the application compatibility is any better.

The only proper way of seeing what has improved is to install on the beast proper, but that will wait till the weekend. There are more lies to create…