I stretched my geek foo muscles today and installed the Windows 7 beta on my computer. It’s surprisingly stable and polished for a beta. I like the user interface enhancements, such as being able to look at thumbnail previews of the programs on your taskbar. The eye candy (transparent windows, dissolving dialog boxes) are nice and now Windows XP feels a little kludgy in comparison. The only catch is that the word prediction function on my keyboard doesn’t work, but that’s why they call it a “beta”.
I liked it enough that I’ll probably spring for the final version once it’s released. In the meantime, I can take satisfaction that I got it to run without blowing up my system. If the economy ever robs me of my policy gig, I still might have a future in computer maintenance and repair.
I too am living in a Win 7 world. I like it so far. I really hope they provide an upgrade path from Beta to RTM however!!
Let me know if you have any problems, I can take a look.