For symmetry and completeness, I’ll talk a little bit about Ubuntu given that I recently wrote about Windows 7. Ubuntu is very nice! I’m very excited for the next version, 9.10, to come out. Three days from today!

I’m currently running the 64 bit version of Ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop (simultaneously with Windows XP and Windows 7). Here’s a screenshot:

One great thing about Ubuntu is that it makes multiple desktops very easy. Windows 7 has quite a few handy tools to navigate around given your single desktop, more so than Ubuntu. Ubuntu, however, gives you multiple desktops:

‘Tis all for now!

Cheers all,

As you may have heard, Microsoft released Windows 7 yesterday. Because MIT is awesome, IST (Information Services and Technology) had it ready for students to download for free and install the same day. So, taking advantage of this, I upgraded my Windows 7 RC partition to the full-on version, Windows 7 Enterprise. And I have to say, it seems pretty nice so far! Here’s a screenshot of my desktop:

Since I never had Vista, I can’t compare speeds. It does seem to be pretty quick though, it looks as though the OS might be pre-loading or caching certain commonly used programs.

The only hiccup I’ve found was that, immediately after installing, Windows 7 didn’t recognize my graphics card, so I didn’t have Windows Aero and my screen resolution was small. Windows later redirected me to download a graphics driver from nVidia’s website, which worked quite well.

Coming from Windows XP and Ubuntu, one feature I think that’s really cool is the Media Center. You can play music and have a pretty, moving display of your albums in full screen mode. I think it’s pretty knarley:

Although it’s a bit early to say for sure, I think Windows 7 is going to be a success.

See you later!