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Windows 7 beta out in the wild

article published on 29 December, 2008

An initial beta of the upcoming Windows 7 operating system has hit torrent trackers across the internet, and one reporter, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes of ZDNet has impressions on it. He says the new OS is "solid and fast", but also adds: "The new revamped taskbar is visually very interesting (and certainly a lot easier to use at higher screen resolutions that the Vista or XP taskbar), but ... [ read the full article ]

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System restore was lifted from Windows ME (or was it 98SE), the picture handling capabilities would have also been around since the 98 days (the thumbnails of images that would be displayed).

Windows XP was nothing more than Windows 2000 with added multimedia support. And that's not a bad thing, as Win2k was one of the most rock stable OS's ever.

As you pointed out, XP was built using the 2000 kernel, but unfortunately there was no driver support from 2k to XP. (you could not use you 2k drivers for devices on XP).

Although apparently, Windows 7 will have full backwards capabilities with Vista drivers, which has led some people to label Windows 7 version number as really NT6.1
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