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After the loads of fun I have had over the years with vista, and Microsoft’s insulting mantra that the issues were all simply in our heads, I expected little from win7. After all the bullshit with project mohave and the smoke and mirrors I expected nothing but simple retread.

But things are looking up. I’m still on my first install off my first try, and things are still working. Most of the insanity that was vista is gone, although win7 still is in many ways just a proper release of vista. The dock (taskbar) is basically what quick launch should have been 10 years ago, and I find it a long overdue improvement over the useless task bar of previous years. The days of running 3-4 apps in long over and the new system handles 10’s of apps very smoothly.

That being said, win7 is still very shallow when it comes to the management gui. I had really hoped that MS could have pushed the new mmc interface all the way down in this release, but it looks like we still have a ways to go. For example… click start, hi-light “computer”, then click properties. We are presented with an easy to read, and organized panel of system information. But this is only a display. Click any of the links in the upper left, and you are thrown back into the over stacked disorganized tab panes that we have been digging through since windows 3. Don’t even get me started on why “Computer – Properties” is still seperated from “Computer – Management” even though they link back and forth to each other repeatedly.
Then there is the fact that contextually identical links with identical wording don’t take you to the same places.

Over all its a great release that should finally allow us to get off XP. That’s a good thing.