Today I spent some times on installing Windows 7 RC. The experience was smooth, I encountered no problem at all when I install it on my 2 years old Lenovo X60s. My X60s is on 945 chipset and Aero effect works well on it.

The first difference that I notice was the taskbar. It’s a very much welcome addition. You can easily launch application from it, also getting application status from it. For example you can see a progress bar on it when you are downloading files on Internet Explorer. There is another feature that I guess a lot of people are dying for, that is a finer control over UAC. Personally I do not have any problem with the UAC at all, even on Vista. However I do agree it’s annoying to repeatedly ask you the same question. Most people avoid that by completely switching off the UAC, right now on Windows 7 you can preserve the security while having less prompt. You can setup the UAC in a way such that the UAC will only prompt you for confirm IF the modification was trigger by a program. That is, if it’s trigger by you, pressing a button, it is NOT going to ask you the same question again and again.

I am installing various beta product right now, such as sliverlight 3. I am going to give more review later.

(This entry was my first post composed using Windows Live Writer.)