Things I appreciate the most from windows 7:
- Automatic Driver detection and installation: so far, I’ve had to install NO DRIVERS for any of my PCs, no graphics card driver, no TV card driver… nothing!
- New Taskbar: the new taskbar has proven much more useful than I expected. The new bar allows you to “pin” programs you use the most (sort of a Quick access icons you used to have since Win 98 or so) but this time you just open the window in the icon, you won’t open more and more tabs, it’s quite useful. Also, if you set your mouse over the preview, the rest of windows become invisible.
- Network management: awesome job, great, simple and bug-less… although I have a complaint: what happen to the “repair” option from XP? The Vista one sucked balls and this one is just useless!
- Boot-Time: reduced like 25%~35% faster than Vista and XP
- Compatibility: I’ve only had one compatibility problem: Nero, but just because I tried to install some prehistoric version, as for the rest 100% working! No complaints this time!
- New Paint and Word pad: Finally! It was about time to change these two older-than-god apps from the Windows OS… now they both look Office 2007-ish and WordPad has now recognition for *.docx formats!
- New Keyboard Shortcuts!: They really are great and extremely useful, Microsoft has really outdone itself with them.