Hello Gaming World. I wanted to know what you guys think about Windows 7, for those of us who have used it.
Currently it's in Beta 1, and I find it to be VERY stable and fast.
Apparently from some other people I've heard it runs better than XP on some systems (especially netbooks)

Anyone else use it? What are your thoughts.

I installed it the other day. It's amazing, even though it's a beta I haven't had any problems with it (except the current WMP 12 deleting seconds off the front of your MP3s but that's easily fixed by making them read only). Everything I've thrown at it (which isn't a lot at the moment) has worked perfectly, the new taskbar is a really good idea and works really well. It's actually fun to do stuff on the desktop now, wait, that sounds retarded, I mean it's not a chore to work with anymore. The new photo gallery software is good as well, it has automatic face detection, tagging and facebook uploading.

The actual public beta is supposed to hit either today or sometime between now and next week.

i've heard lots of good things about windows 7, and after reading this article about the new taskbar, i just have to download it and give it a try. I'll probably install it on a virtual machine first, but i've decided im going to skip vista altogether and adopt windows 7 as early as possible.

It's on bittorrent of course, but I'm waiting for the legit beta...

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/01/07/information-on-downloading-and-installing-windows-7-beta.aspx

Edit: Ah shit, it's only an upgrade from Vista SP1

Thats only if you choose upgrade when you are installing it. it'll only upgrade from Vista SP1. You shouldn't completely replace your original OS anyway seeing as it is only a beta. you can just partition your drive and install 7 on that and still be able to access your Vista (or whatever) stuff.

Yeah some people have mentioned that WMP deletes music randomly so watch out for that one. I have been playing tracks for hours now and it hasn't done it.

I also lol'ed at the track timer. Something's pretty wrong there.

I preferred the black WMP I wish I could change it back.

It has a cool feature where it randomises desktop wallpapers.

There is a fix for that WMP bug now, not sure if it is on Windows Update yet though. All it did was cut about 2 seconds off the start of a track if the metadata header thing was over 16k, which is most common with tracks that have their album artwork in the header. But it isn't a problem anymore.

I have found another bug though, I created an auto playlist for songs I rated 4+ stars and then put it on shuffle. Then went through my library and rated some more songs and it added them to the playlist but when I play them it plays the other songs in the playlist. I had to restart WMP to get it work.

Also, to do with the superbar. When you pin an application to it and then uninstall the program you can't remove the icon. It gives you the option to but it doesn't actually do anything.