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Windows 7… what do you think?

Well it’s been on the news recently that Windows 7 is beginning to get it’s first visual demos and it’s being shown around a little. And from what I’ve seen, it looks like it’s going to be really nice. The visual design of it looks much more homely, and it looks like Microsoft wants to work even further at making the computer be more of a household object.

If you haven’t heard much about the new Windows 7, this post on Neowin.net will help you catch up a little. I’ve also got a few screenshots here that give a vague idea of what it will look like.

 

Windows 7

Windows 7

 

The new start menu

The new start menu

Obviously, the design could change at any time so this is only a vague idea. But by the looks of it, it might be quite nice – although I don’t like the start bar at all at the moment, but its probably only a demo. 

Oh and a quick research says that it will be released anytime between the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 – fat chance in my opinion but we’ll see. Remember how delayed Vista was?

Lets just hope they don’t make the same mistakes with Windows 7 that they did with Vista.

Do you want to customize your Vista logon screen?

After a very short while, I get bored of things I frequently see. The logon screen, for example, is something I see several times a day. I quickly got bored of the default wallpaper Vista provides for your logon screen, so I decided to personalise it a little.

I used a program called LogonStudio by Stardock. It’s a free program, and basically it just changes the wallpaper of the logon screen, to whatever you specify. 

It’s a fantastic program, and there is also an XP version. You can download it here, and I’ll post a link on the Resources page.