The tech blogosphere is abuzz with talk of Windows 7. And especially now that Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's boss of the Windows crew whipped out his Lenovo S10 (or was it an Eee? See for yourself below) running the sparkling new OS at the PDC. If a current-gen netbook is capable of running this OS - think about how well it will run on netbooks once its released in late 09/10 (and hopefully not later than this).
Apparently the netbook he used (whatever it was) has 1GB of RAM and after booting Windows 7 had "half of its memory free". Pretty impressive for a bleeding edge OS! This ties in with Asus' Jerry Shen raving about Windows 7. It looks like Vista will be the OS that never was (for netbooks at least).
It seems that instead of Microsoft Window's historical approach of requiring users to undertake a mainframe computer upgrade between versions, Microsoft has now opted for a Windows that is alot gentler on systems and leaves more RAM and CPU power available for running applications. It sounds like Windows 7 is really optimized to start faster and performance has been a big focus in its development so far.
Not only will performance improve but battery life optimization has been taken into concern in the OS's development. Also the obligatory UI overhaul is in there too... transparency galore. Multitouch makes a frontline appearance.
Windows 7 sounds like the perfect netbook OS and it looks like Microsoft actually gets netbooks.
Check out an in-depth Win7 walkthrough here at Laptop mag.
More here at Engadget.
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