Windows 7 Release Candidate Toolbar

Windows 7 Release Candidate is released to consumers on Tuesday. one days away. I want this post to reflect some of my thoughts as I’ve been using the Beta for a while now, and I’m now preparing for an update to the RC.

First of all, the taskbar pictured above. Lot’s of talking - is it better and whatnot… It’s better, trust me, way better. Surely it takes a while to get used to it, but navigating between windows gets faster. Although, if you are only using a couple of applications at once, and close them when done, you might find no difference. However, as I’m lazy enough to leave all applications running in the background, this makes it all so much easier.

Remember the old taskbar with 20 windows open. Gosh, you couldn’t see shit, and things started getting grouped up (which you at that point weren’t used to). In the end you had no idea where to find things.

Also, searching. Maybe it’s just me, but I feel that Windows 7 puts more focus on searching than previous versions. That’s visible on how I’m using my computer in the daily work too, as I am now used to search for things instead of looking through all my folders. There’s one thing I still miss here though, tagging of files. Photos are ‘taggable’, but I still feel like I want to be able to tag all sorts of files. Does anyone know if this is possible? Hook me up on it.

I just read that the RC will be available for a whole year of free use, so I recommend everyone to take it for a drive - Just to get to know what your future will look like if you decide to stick with the PC, like me.

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