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The Windows 7 Bootscreen
Posted December 14th, 2008 at 1:45am by Electronic Punk
Welcome to my first blog about Windows 7, I hope to be making regular blogs about my personal experiences with the betas and release candidates where I am able!
Apologies for the audio on both, but I seem to have left my mic on while recording and was talking rubbish on the phone!
So I saw some shaky cam footage the other day and really wanted to put something of better quality out there.
It is also an opportunity for me to leave my first thoughts about Windows 7 as I have been playing with it now since the start of November.
First things first, here is the build that was given to WinHEC attendees loading added for the sake of comparison:
Admittedly fairly unexciting although you can already see that the general quality of the bootscreen is higher.
This early milestone build has an interface very similar to that of Vista which has already been replaced by newer builds and it is definately very much a work in progress.
As for build 6956 you can see that a new (and often requested) boot screen is now in place:
Although my demonstration doesn't show it, this is a very smooth animation and a very nice touch.
The argument for not adding a boot screen to Vista was that it added 2-3 seconds to the load time but I can't help but feel that you shouldn't have to reboot that often really? Currently I reboot for ATI drivers, Windows Update and for reasons that can never really be explained Nero.
I am not really showing off much about the operating system itself, I guess I can delve into that later but I can say that this newer build feels very stable and fast - even in a virtual environment.
Alot of work has already been done on the new interface and I will likely install it to my laptop in order to appreciate it a little more. (as soon as I can determine a way of getting it's data in a position where I can wipe and reboot it each time a new build is made available to me).
There are many nice touches included as well as personal adjustments to be made, getting used to the changes made in Windows Media Player 12 and seeing how much of the bloat I can remove from the default Internet Explorer 8.
Both videos were shot using Camtasia which produced amazing videos (only to be let down by Youtube!) with the Windows 7 builds running on Virtual PC 2007 installed on Windows Vista Ultimate x64.
Apologies for the audio on both, but I seem to have left my mic on while recording and was talking rubbish on the phone!
So I saw some shaky cam footage the other day and really wanted to put something of better quality out there.
It is also an opportunity for me to leave my first thoughts about Windows 7 as I have been playing with it now since the start of November.
First things first, here is the build that was given to WinHEC attendees loading added for the sake of comparison:
Admittedly fairly unexciting although you can already see that the general quality of the bootscreen is higher.
This early milestone build has an interface very similar to that of Vista which has already been replaced by newer builds and it is definately very much a work in progress.
As for build 6956 you can see that a new (and often requested) boot screen is now in place:
Although my demonstration doesn't show it, this is a very smooth animation and a very nice touch.
The argument for not adding a boot screen to Vista was that it added 2-3 seconds to the load time but I can't help but feel that you shouldn't have to reboot that often really? Currently I reboot for ATI drivers, Windows Update and for reasons that can never really be explained Nero.
I am not really showing off much about the operating system itself, I guess I can delve into that later but I can say that this newer build feels very stable and fast - even in a virtual environment.
Alot of work has already been done on the new interface and I will likely install it to my laptop in order to appreciate it a little more. (as soon as I can determine a way of getting it's data in a position where I can wipe and reboot it each time a new build is made available to me).
There are many nice touches included as well as personal adjustments to be made, getting used to the changes made in Windows Media Player 12 and seeing how much of the bloat I can remove from the default Internet Explorer 8.
Both videos were shot using Camtasia which produced amazing videos (only to be let down by Youtube!) with the Windows 7 builds running on Virtual PC 2007 installed on Windows Vista Ultimate x64.
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I am already on the Connect beta, but need to determine the extent to which I can talk about it (there is no new build on Connect at this time though just to clear that up)Posted December 19th, 2008 at 5:34pm by Electronic Punk
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no new release till jan 09Posted December 20th, 2008 at 1:21am by Dark Atheist
