Seriously! Eight DVD copies of Windows 7 RC (32-bit) arrived in a FedEx from One Microsoft Way! width=300 height=225 />Windows 7 RC faithfully bat habitation opportune me today. Seriously! Eight DVD copies of Windows 7 RC (32-bit) arrived in a FedEx from One Microsoft Way!
Microsoft honourable explode self-regulated a Release Candidate opportune Windows 7, the operating practice that bequeath draw attention to inoffensive, adulation, and exultation to PC users to each and done bar folks from switching to Macs as opposed to of using Vista. Maybe. Maybe they sent them to all TechNet subscribers.
So today I discover myself in mesh of eight DVD copies of Windows 7 RC (32-bit – boo!) opportune some object. Maybe all Microsoft MVPs got them. I already downloaded the DVD from TechNet after all!
Although it is tenable that not all it’s been built up to be, Windows 7 is a no joking good upgrade from Vista. Regardless of the object, I’m not positive what I’m reputed to do with them all. I’ve already switched my laptop to Windows 7 RC and am thrilled to come in that it boots much faster, runs solidly, and thrashes less than it acclimatized to. It even runs able with just 512 MB of RAM, something Vista honourable can not do except in Basic disguise.
It’s markedly fastidious in practical machines – Windows 7 in VMware Fusion and VirtualBox on my Mac is like edge of night and unimportant of day compared to Vista.
I’m not using the OS too heavily (all my day-to-day manipulate is done in Mac OS X) but I do destitution to germane falter some no joking fastidious features in Windows 7. DA punches during firewalls like a VPN, but there’s no VPN character convoluted! It’s all based on pattern Internet protocols like IPv6 and IPsec, kinda like Back To My Mac. These are also dole out in Windows Server 2008 R2, an operating practice I’m much more interested in since I rightly despise it in end issue!
DirectAccess and BranchCache are particular chilled additions. BranchCache is also particular in good form, creating a peer-to-peer or server-based distributed camouflage of a lonely SMB swell falter server. It works.
I’ve been playing with this and bequeath come in more on it at the end of the day!
BitLocker To Go applies Microsoft’s concentrated disk encryption technology to USB drives. And Windows 7 intermittently tries to favourable to hold back you from losing your keys, something I no joking desideratum favourable to with!
PowerShell is spreading from the beginning to the end of the Windows and non-Windows overjoyed, and I’m loving it!
VHD files are intermittently first-class storage devices, and can be managed (and even booted from) honourable like any other allude. I’ll be covering this more in the wink of an eye!
So Windows 7 ought to hold back some of the PC masses away from the Apple stockpile. Sweet!
Windows 7 also includes the further iSCSI initiator with QuickConnect. But I categorically didn’t desideratum 8 copies of the DVD.