By Stu on January 14th, 2009
I have gone through the installation of Windows 7 Beta. Like the millions of others, I have notice a nice improvement on the speed of installation. Boot up is fairly fast and is faster than my Vista Laptop. Though to be fair, it is running SQL Express, IIS 7 and a whole host of applications.
What is really impressing is the responsiveness of the UI. Internet Explorer 8 Beta (IE 
is very quick and is rendering web pages better than IE 7. I currently use Fire Fox 3, but that is just due to render speed of IE7 on several of my most visited websites.
By Stu on January 8th, 2009
Steve Ballmer introduced some new things at CES 2009.
- Windows 7 Beta will be available for consumer review Friday.
- Windows Live Essentials is out of beta and will be available for download.
- The Xbox 360 had a great 2008.
- Verizon and Sprint will be offering Live Search on their phones.
- Dell will be the first PC manufacturer pre-installing Live Search and Live Essentials on “most” of their new computers.
- 20 Million Windows Mobile phone sold in the last year.
- 30 Windows Mobile Phones brought to market last year.
I have gone through the installation of Windows 7 Beta. Like the millions of others, I have notice a nice improvement on the speed of installation. Boot up is fairly fast and is faster than my Vista Laptop. Though to be fair, it is running SQL Express, IIS 7 and a whole host of applications.