I just downloaded the Windows 8 Developer Preview and I'm really excited to start playing with it. For those of you that know me this shouldn't come as a big surprise because as you well know I am a neophile and an operating system whore. Seriously, there was a period of a couple of months at my last gig where I changed my OS about once a week. And I'm not talking small changes, either. I would jump from Windows XP to Ubuntu to Windows Vista x64 to Windows 7 alpha back to some other linux and you get the idea.
Anyway, I'm busy installing the Windows 8 Developer Preview on top of Sun's excellent VirtualBox virtualization software. Why don't you use Microsoft's Virtual PC you ask? Because the feature set is so much smaller than what I get from VirtualBox. Multiple CPUs, more than 3.75 GB of RAM on the guest OS, 3D acceleration, etc.
Anyway, I'm pretty stoked about it and I'll do a proper write-up on how to install it on VirtualBox once I'm done playing around a little bit.
Showing posts with label Windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows. Show all posts
Windows 7 Personalization
Here’s some links for Windows 7 themes and such:
Microsoft provides some nice resources:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/Personalize
ithinkdifferent has a bunch of apple-ish ones, too:
http://www.ithinkdiff.com/windows-7-themes/
Grass is probably my favorite so far, sorry for the rip Apple fanboys!
Why Windows 7 Will Win (and lose)
I thought this was an interesting post at thebetaguy.com. To quote the interesting stuff:
"...Windows 7 will be a from-the-ground-up packaging of the Windows codebase; partially source, but not binary compatible with previous versions of Windows. Making the break from backwards compatibility is a dangerous proposal but a dream for software developers. Performance of native applications can be increased, distribution sizes can be cut down, functionality can be added without the worry of breaking old applications, and the overall end-user experience can be significantly improved.
However, Windows' lure has always been that applications from older versions of Windows are almost guaranteed to work post-upgrade..."
This is exactly what Microsoft needs to do, from a technical standpoint. From a financial/business standpoint, it may not work out so well. In the long run, however, continuing down the backwards-compatibility path will only further harm their performance in future versions.
Sometimes the medicine hurts worse than the sickness. On the other hand, Apple did it right back in 2000, so why not?
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