Foogar says

I was going to write up this long review of the Windows 7 experience I’ve had but longer isn’t always better.  For a beta, a Microsoft beta at that, this is a very stable. As a finished product I’d say it has a bit to go though.  The beta does exactly what it was supposed to do, get people talking about Windows in a good way again.  I’d say there isn’t much of a true beta going on, bug hunting and all of that, because I see this as a PR release mostly.

While I’m on the subject I’d lake to let a couple problems I’ve had with the beta out into the open.  Java won’t install, period.  I don’t know if this is a Microsoft problem of a Sun problem but I can’t get Java installed right now.  I have not tried running the installer in compatibility mode yet though.  The other problem I had is Windows Update crashing.  I noticed this after trying to install Java so one may have caused the other but I have no way of knowing for sure.  Updates do work if you let them automatically download and install though so all is not lost.

I do like the interface changes to Media Center specifically.  That and the integration into the start menu (I guess it’s still a start menu) make things a bit faster and easier for me.  Instead of opening Media Center and then selecting to view live TV I can pop into live TV straight away.  Yay for advancement!  Who knew 20 years ago that we’d be able to turn on a TV and it’d show us live TV right then???  Enough of that, this is something I am truly excited about, sarcasm aside.