Microsoft Windows 7 Demo

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on October 7, 2009 - 10:16pm
Microsoft Windows 7 Demo
Date: 
October 29, 2009 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
Location: 
St. Michael's College, Alumni Hall, Room AH 100, 121 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON
Presenter/Moderator: 
Rodrigo Mier y Concha Araiza

Learn about the upcoming desktop Operating System from Microsoft, Windows 7. Discover the new features that it offers for every user, from home to enterprise. Understand the value of a modern platform and the benefits of an Optimized Desktop approach. Rodrigo will
share with you the product roadmap and deployment guidelines from Microsoft.

Click here for helpful multiple keyboard shortcuts for Windows 7 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows7/Keyboard-shortcuts

AttachmentSize
UofT_-_Windows_7__Optimized_Desktop.pdf11.52 MB
3.625
Average: 3.6 (8 votes)
Your rating: None
  • Login to post comments
  • 1313 reads
  • Printer-friendly version
  • Send to friend

Comments

Microsoft Windows 7 Demo

Submitted by liangxue on October 9, 2009 - 8:51am.

Thanks for providing this opportunity!

Awesome!

Rouben's picture
Submitted by Rouben on October 9, 2009 - 9:52am.

Good news, thanks! I'll let everyone at OISE know. Windows 7 is actually quite impressive. At the moment a vanilla install that I was testing (64-bit) has a memory footprint of just under 512MB, and it's actually usable under a VM with a mere 768MB of RAM (I started out with 1GB and then started dialing it down). That is impressive.

I also find that Microsoft actually put some thought into the GUI. Granted, there's still extra stuff bolted on top that's probably a tad excessive and would put off the average user, but unlike that other OS that shall not be named :) this UI actually works! And it's efficient! Visually it's also not as dysfunctional as the default Windows XP jellybean/red-green-blue electron gun exercise theme. If MS puts some effort into the Window manager (transparent windows is a good step in the right direction, but a lot of neat features could be inherited from say the Compiz project on Linux), I may actually consider using this thing... I'd still have to do a full install of GNUWin32, though. I find the shell to be too restrictive, and PowerShell feels too much like Python... not really my cup of tea for everyday work.

All in all, I am impressed so far in terms of usability. I haven't had a chance to dive under the hood and see what's there... well very superficially. I don't expect major changes in that department, though. Microsoft has lots of legacy customers and they have always been keen on maintaining solid (more or less) backwards compatibility and graceful degradation of legacy features, and that is a challenge.

Respect +1 for MS. Good job.