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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
In my opinion, Windows 7 needs to be stable, needs to trim down on the hardware (hard drive space especially), and it needs to get rid of UAC. Meet those requirements and I think we might have a winner. I would personally like to see their new file system that was promised for Vista.
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Stability: Check - During my short time with the 6801 build, the only real problems I had were with applications flat out not liking the new OS - didn't really expect anything different there, since it was still in Alpha at the time.
Hardware: Don't remember for sure, but supposedly things have been trimmed at least so that Aero can run on machines that it was previously not able to. Also, the default "clean install" sets up a separate "System" partition, which (theoretically) makes sure you can at least still boot to a console if your Windows partition gets FUBAR'd.
UAC: I actually agree with what they are trying to do with UAC, and they made the settings much more flexible with Win7. Rather than the simple UAC On/Off option that you had with Vista, there's actually about 5 different levels of UAC that you can choose from - basically from Off to "Protect me from Myself" and everything in between.
New File System(WinFS): It's my understanding that WinFS has been all but abandoned by MS, but some of the work on it is being rolled into future versions of SQL Server(since WinFS was SQL based anyway)...so, it's my guess that you'll never see it as an actual part of the OS, but it may make an appearance as an add-on for those who might need it. I actually played around with the Beta they released a while back, and honestly was not that impressed...the idea is nice, but could be implemented just as easily by allowing tags on files to categorize them. You see a little bit of this in Vista, where your default "Documents", "Pictures", "Music", etc folders in the user directories are not folders at all, but rather what I would call "meta-folders" (I think Win7 calls them "collections"), where you can specify multiple locations, that get combined into one for easier access. The physical folders still exist, of course, but you don't see them unless you go looking when you go to open or save a file. I used this to my advantage while I was using Win7, linking my music(stored on an external HDD) to show up in the "Music" metafolder, without having to use up the extra HDD space on my internal drive.