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The Windows 7 Bootscreen
Posted December 14th, 2008 at 12:45am 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This early milestone build has an interface very similar to that of Vista which has already been replaced by newer builds and it is definately very much a work in progress.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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no nda ?Posted December 14th, 2008 at 12:47am by Dark Atheist
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Well the first was dished out to WinHEC attendees the latter by other means - I am sure I will find out soon enough.Posted December 14th, 2008 at 12:48am by Electronic Punk
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Small part to the new OS, but makes me want it even more.Posted December 14th, 2008 at 12:57am by Bman
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looks really good
but when vista came out they said that the loading screen had minimum graphics cos they slow down the boot time... now they do this?Posted December 14th, 2008 at 1:08am by epk
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I am going to stick it on my laptop shortly as I said, I guess time is relative, having something pretty to look out and potentially an indication of how the boot is going will make time fly by a little more.Posted December 14th, 2008 at 1:18am by Electronic Punk
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Thanks for blogging about your experience. I'll be looking forward to your future entries!Posted December 14th, 2008 at 5:49am by Gigabot
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yeah, thats trueI guess time is relative, having something pretty to look out and potentially an indication of how the boot is going will make time fly by a little more.Posted December 14th, 2008 at 1:15pm by epk
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i know perhaps one should be excited, but how is this different from vista... totally unexcited.Posted December 14th, 2008 at 3:31pm by lancer
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Well its too early to say exactly how it is better than Vista, but I have been playing with the new UI all day and finding lots of great new features in there.
It is also an excuse to make sure all my sites work correctly with the new IE8 and I'll be having to make a few tweaks here and there it seems but ultimately nothing has fallen over ;pPosted December 14th, 2008 at 4:26pm by Electronic Punk
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My God, that thing is speedy!!Posted December 14th, 2008 at 5:01pm by Mizzle
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Hope this isnt crappy as Vista....
Posted December 15th, 2008 at 12:03pm by binoyxj
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vista isn't most vista issues exist between the chair and keyboard Posted December 15th, 2008 at 1:04pm by LordOfLA
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lol I agree. Vista is good. You'll just need proper hardware to run it.Posted December 15th, 2008 at 6:27pm by Mizzle
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you dont even need that much hardware.. i think the problem is people want to use their pcs which ran xp just fine with an OS that came out 5 years later
why didnt they complain when their pentium 3's couldnt run cod4?Posted December 15th, 2008 at 6:34pm by epk
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I always thought the lack of a boot screen on Vista was stupid. Every PC I've seen Vista on shows that boot screen for a least 5 seconds.
The starting windows with the progress bar or the logo animation and progress bar is nice, simple and minimal.Posted December 15th, 2008 at 9:23pm by Admiral Michael
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Alot of the benchmarks give the edge to Windows 7, much better than Vista vs. XP at this stage of the game when it was being tested. Excited to see how this turns out, and looking forward to more video without audio
Posted December 15th, 2008 at 11:40pm by kcnychief
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After having 6956 (latest build) on my computer..... i must say that i'm really thinking about using it over Vista.... and i'm one of those that LOVE Vista..... and i'm not being sarcastic about that. lol
It's just so much more fun to use. no long drawn out application icons with text saying what the window has in it.... just a square with the icon, and the ability to peek at every instance of that application, even different tabs in different IE windows. Only thing i didn't really like that i've found so far is the fact that it seems like MS is kinda FORCING people to look at that pretty boot logo. Have it installed on my 30GB SSD.... and it NEVER boots without letting the Windows logo go through it's whole routine. Vista..... the bar would go across maybe 2 or 3 times IIRC, see the Vista logo, and straight to the desktop with the sidebar clock already visible.
Have to say it.... but this early (?) in 7's build stage.... it looks like MS is putting a LOT more work into it than they did for Vista over XP. Hell, i don't even think Longhorn looked like Vista until it was basically in a public beta form.Posted December 17th, 2008 at 5:08am by ElementalDragon
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Keep in mind that 6956 was both an early build and a leaked pirate version and definately has issues that will not be in the final version.
There is nothing wrong with using Vista until 7 is done of course.
I have made my laptop disposable for the beta so I can really give it a good work out.Posted December 18th, 2008 at 4:38am by Electronic Punk
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and.... just further adding to the statement that it really seems like MS is ACTUALLY working on Windows 7.... not saying that they're gonna do this and that but not providing like they kinda did to an extent with Vista. And i haven't really found any issues yet. at least none that stood out like mad.Posted December 18th, 2008 at 5:15am by ElementalDragon
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"Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD's to be ready by January 13th." from Neowin, confirmed by keith combs
most likely, CES attendees will get a free copyPosted December 19th, 2008 at 1:49am by epk
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