Since PDC happened I've been going through and watching all of the presentations. If you want a quick synopsis of what is coming out for 7
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Nope, it is entirely based on top of Vista. All of the nice features and speed ups you are seeing come directly from the Vista componentization.
As for flavors, there are going to be more than one and, as always, the home edition will come out at $300. They haven't announced the editions yet, but sadly ,they are still in there.
I also like that they are supposedly unbundling so much of the included software. Specifically, Outlook Express will no longer be on the system by default, correct?
Also, that "Awesome Bar" reminds me a lot of the Dock in OS X. Hopefully it won't have the same usability problems. The mouseover window preview sounds promising, but they may find some way to screw it up so either it doesn't work or it isn't useful. Tiny thumbnails of Word documents all look the same, for example, so the mouseover preview would be much less useful. Websites and photos tend to be different enough that a user can distinguish between smaller versions, but generic spreadsheets or text files? Ha. Good luck.
Yup, they've unbundled a lot of software. They didn't do this to reduce bloat, but to seperate its upgrade cycle from Windows. Movie Maker, Mail, MSN, etc have been removed.
Awesome Bar: When you mouse over a window it will 'peek' that window on your screen. That means all other windows will turn glass and show the window you moused over on the taskbar. If you click it will bring it to the front.
Actually, I'm most happy to hear about halving Windows' memory use. The operating systems haven't shown any moderation in that regard in any of the previous iterations. :P
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As for flavors, there are going to be more than one and, as always, the home edition will come out at $300. They haven't announced the editions yet, but sadly ,they are still in there.
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I'm one of them.
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Also, that "Awesome Bar" reminds me a lot of the Dock in OS X. Hopefully it won't have the same usability problems. The mouseover window preview sounds promising, but they may find some way to screw it up so either it doesn't work or it isn't useful. Tiny thumbnails of Word documents all look the same, for example, so the mouseover preview would be much less useful. Websites and photos tend to be different enough that a user can distinguish between smaller versions, but generic spreadsheets or text files? Ha. Good luck.
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Awesome Bar: When you mouse over a window it will 'peek' that window on your screen. That means all other windows will turn glass and show the window you moused over on the taskbar. If you click it will bring it to the front.
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