JCS Development

As a developer/IT professional I am honestly not concerned about the religious wars between Windows/Mac/(xxx)nix.  I’ve used windows sine Windows/286 (does that date me or what) and I have to say Windows 7 is the best version yet.  Not perfect, but really good!

I’ve been using the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) for a month or so and here are my favorite things about it:

1. Document Libraries – You can now create libraries for documents, images, media and in my case “Projects” and have access to them in all of the different windows explorers from “Opening” to “Saving” files.  Really cool.
2. Task Bar – Finally the task bar is useful.
   • You can pin program shortcuts to it and it will give you (if the program is developed that way) a cool “jump” menu.
   • Groupings are useful they will show you what windows are open for that app, and you can even close them that way.
   • The Action Center keeps you from having a ton of messages always popping up, but you have to remember to look at it.
   • The Task Tray is now in one pop-up menu that you can customize much easier.  VERY handy.
3. User Account Control – if you used Vista you know what a headache this was.  Now it’s easy to adjust the settings, or even turn it off.  But know the risks.
4. Search – You can finally search for documents again and it works.  It works inside the windows explorer with a interface similar to a web-browser.  Very smart.
5. Homegroup – while this is designed primarily for families with multiple computers it would work just fine for businesses with only a couple of computers too.  I’m using it with my computer, my wifes computer and a Network Storage device.  It’s very handy and easy to share all kinds of files.

All in all I really like Windows 7.  While it’s not as “pretty” as Mac’s Snow Leopard it is very functional, and if you’ve been using Windows for a while it’s a refreshing change.  It’s not perfect yet, but it’s definitely worth the cost of the upgrade.

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