What will Windows 7 contain? Look here for a good guess...

Sounbds to me that this is what was dropped to get Vista out of the door apart from the new disk filing system that seems to have been forgotten. It looks like service pack 3 for Vista.
 
Caged said:
A move away from drive letters to volume names would be nice. No more having to manually set the drive letter of a USB drive just because you plugged something else in and it's now hiding. And no having to update all your shortcuts just because you reinstalled Windows and it gave all the drives different letters to your last install.

Give me /Volumes/Macintosh HD over C:\ any day.
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Yep, completely agree.
 
HEADRAT said:
Yeah I mean why weren't these availalbe in Windows 98!

All these features should be provided in XP as an update pack given away free and delivered to my house on the back of a Unicorn while Bill Gates comes in to install it for me! OK I've only got a pirated version of XP which I've been using for the last 4 years and I've got a UBER PC that I spent ££££ but I resent the idea of having to pay for the software that actually makes my computer work!

HEADRAT
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:D
 
I loled at the "support .ISO and .BIN" part. Now, just add native .rar support in explorer and automatic sfv checker. ;)
 
Things like IE7 Session Restore should be a no brainer, I've had It crash several times with many tabs open (90% it's Quicktime that causes the crash). I use firefox now which has this feature, even when it's not crashing.

Also the CDROM spin up along with any drives that are sleeping should be resolved, sometimes when I bring up a file list I have to wait 15 seconds for 2 sleeping drives and a CDROM to spin up even though the file I want it on the drive that is awake already.
 
I've been saying IE should have tabs draggable form one instance to another ever since IE7 came out!

Also taskbar support for dual monitors is long overdue!
 
I've always thought that you should be able to drag objects on the taskbar to a different place like you can with IE tabs (re-order them).
 
badbob said:
Request : 100MB in size
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a revised kernal project called MinWin has been successfully tested implementing a 25MB size and running on 48MBs of RAM...

Rumors suggest Windows 7 is aimed to take no more than 400MBs of RAM to run... but we will see.
 
Skeeter said:
a revised kernal project called MinWin has been successfully tested implementing a 25MB size and running on 48MBs of RAM...

Rumors suggest Windows 7 is aimed to take no more than 400MBs of RAM to run... but we will see.
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Why would you want all your RAM sitting around empty? :confused:
 
I'm quite sceptical of those screenshots... They look too 'complete', not only that, they look pretty much exactly like Vista, and the start menu's completely populated for whatever reason... Surely a pre-alpha build (like it should be at now) wouldn't have all this pre-installed carp already on it?

In any case, I'm liking:

Back up Xbox 360 games to Windows PC.
Windows should not have to spin up CD drives when pulling down a drive list - I've always wondered why Windows does that, it seems to be entirely for the purpose of getting the logo and name of the disk...
'Gaming mode' - Presumably that's some kind of mode where the colours are adjusted and some unessential background tasks are cancelled?
Tabbed Explorer - Yes! - If you can drag files to those tabs, I love Microsoft.
ISO/BIN support - Presumably that means being able to access the file system of an ISO/BIN file without having to burn to a CD or use a drive emulator? If that's the case - awesome!
No dialogue should take keyboard focus away from what you are doing - About time!


Also, this made me lol:

Undo close tab (as in Firefox). :p
 
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