{"id":162,"date":"2009-01-10T13:16:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T09:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2009-01-13T02:20:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T22:20:48","slug":"windows-7-been-there-done-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7: Been There, Done That."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I download the Windows 7 Beta and installed it on a Desktop, as well as a laptop. \u00a0The installation went well, all the hardware worked post install without issue. \u00a0Everything was quite ordinary. The features demonstrated at the CES are indeed there, and work well. \u00a0I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m too impressed, however.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new task bar is basically a copy of Apple dock.\u00a0 One icon manages all open instances of that application, and you get a preview of all instances by hovering over the icon.\u00a0 Descriptive text is gone (by default) on the taskbar icons, but you can enable it if you wish via taskbar properties\n<\/li>\n<li>You can make all open windows transparent so you can see the desktop.\u00a0 This feature is neat if you have a messy desktop with a lot of icons (like I do).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Instead of getting taskbar icons for every single instance of an application (8 IE windows open for example) you get the one icon, which basically manages all the open windows. \u00a0Highlight the icon, and you get small previews of each window across the bottom, and you can select which one you want to focus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Snap windows side-by-side for comparison by dragging them to the left and right sides<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Shake a window back and forth to minimize and restore all other windows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows Media Player 12 (wooo!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Internet Explorer 8 (wooo!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Accelerators are interesting; Curious to see how useful it will turn out to be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>UI Customization is pretty neat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Paint finally gets an update!  More on this once we play around with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Wordpad finally gets an update!  More on this once we play around with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Anyway, people will be expecting a lot more than what they are getting.<\/div>\n<p><B>Screenshots:<\/B><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div id=\"attachment_169\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/desktop-001-sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-169\" title=\"desktop-001-sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/desktop-001-sm.png\" alt=\"Mac-Like task bar\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mac-Like task bar<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><div id=\"attachment_179\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/desktop-002-sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/desktop-002-sm.png\" alt=\"Too many Windows Open?\" title=\"desktop-002-sm\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-179\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Too many Windows Open?<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div id=\"attachment_170\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/desktop-003-sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-170\" title=\"desktop-003-sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/desktop-003-sm.png\" alt=\"All windows transparent\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All windows transparent<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><div id=\"attachment_180\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/paint-001-sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/paint-001-sm.png\" alt=\"Paint Changes!\" title=\"paint-001-sm\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paint Changes!<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><div id=\"attachment_181\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/paint-002-sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/paint-002-sm.png\" alt=\"Paint: Save as PNG!\" title=\"paint-002-sm\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-181\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paint: Save as PNG!<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I download the Windows 7 Beta and installed it on a Desktop, as well as a laptop.  The installation went well, all the hardware worked post install without issue.  Everything was quite ordinary. The features demonstrated at the CES are indeed there, and work well.  I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m too impressed, however.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[21,23],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-7-random","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-7","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}