Windows 7 First Impressions

I have been running Windows 7 Professional on my new PC for a few weeks now. I haven't spent much hands on time with the beta so the experience was new for me. Here are a few of my observations which for the most part mirror the numerous "professional" reviews.

• Windows Task Bar
• Windows Aero eye candy
• Performance
• 99% application / driver compatibility
• Folder Navigation

The Jury is still out on if I like the "Libraries" concept. This may be due to the fact that I have changed the default locations of the standard libraries to a separate hard drive. The main problem is that Win 7 Library un-aware applications will still default their save paths to the old My Documents folder resulting having 2 variations of My Documents which as you can imagine is more difficult to manage and keep track of. The Libraries like a good idea in theory but in practice they are not working as I would like them to.

Application compatibility is an issue for a few of my games so I'm waiting on new video drivers which will hopefully solve the issue in the near future.

Geoff