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This early milestone build has an interface very similar to that of Vista which has already been replaced by newer builds and it is definately very much a...

I have just added a new addition to the OSNN forums and if you are reading this then you have found it!

Blogs have been enabled for the moderators, administrators, news posters, elite members and subscribers for the time being while I test and may well be expanded later depending on how things go.

Have fun!

I saw this film last night with Victoria and it was certainly a good continuation of the original and still fairly believable although the whole film came about because of a very unlikely series of events – the wife of the facilities caretaker is rescued and happens to be a carrier for the disease without other symptoms. Was that a spoiler? You most likely could have guessed that things don’t go so well.


Seeing the derelict streets of London was also interesting, considering the amount of cash it must have cost to actually clear the few shown streets in the original, I suspect a lot of it was computer generated this time around although it was fascinating to see Wembley stadium with long grass and a Longbow Apache firing into the streets of London and generally a lot of familiar landmarks in serious need of repair or being destroyed.

Was also interesting to follow the progress of one of...

So the last time I covered this was before Windows Vista was officially available and as far as drivers go things have been ok – but not perfect. I was thinking that things were progressing nicely but it has been seven months since RTM and nearly four since GA! Having both an NVIDIA card and a Creative card and visiting forums supporting their products regularly, I have seen sites created trying to sue them for not supporting an Operating System that was announced after the product shipped, amusing how immature and clueless some people are – myself to some extent so I have done some reading up on it all day. Here is my current hardware:

Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Edition
ObviouslyVista is different to Windows XP and the audio changes are a fine example. Vista has moved the audio stack out of kernel and into user mode and part of that change has meant that Directsound3D can no longer be hardware accelerated. As EAX is an extension of Directsound3D it also can...

www.osnn.net is now both a Windows XP and a Vista featured/related community, which is pretty exciting as we have all worked hard to get ourselves solely running Windows Vista so we can experience the problems of users first hand. There are definitely a few issues I have experienced and it has been a real buzz to work through them with others, I still have outstanding issues some of which I will cover a little later on. You can check out our little link at Microsoft on this page: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/win...y/related.mspx - the description reads “Community forums and news about Windows Vista.” – I am sure we can come up with something better than that, so let me know and I will ask Nick White if he can get it changed!

As far as OSNN goes, we are looking at making changes and always are, but we need to see what happens. Virtuanews which we use for the front page is pretty damn dated now compared to other CMS applications that are out there so I am...