Windows 7: The Negative Sides

But to stay fair, I want to start with some positive impressions. First of all, the new version is really fast (so far). Although I am not sure if it is Windows 7or the SSD in the work-notebook.
They have integrated Windows Shell now, which offers me the possibility to run Unix-Commands on the Win-System and I can use Windows Shell for a whole bunch of programming/automating tasks.
The integrated backup tool can be used too and does its work, even in the network. But it has some clear bugs. In my case it told me that there would not be enough space for an image on a disk where more than 150Gb have been available and the SSD in the notebook has only a size of 128Gb. So what went wrong there? Interesting is, that this failure can be reproduced. Only if you format your hard drive with the corresponding tool of Windows you can at some point in time use your external USB drive as Backup-/Imaging-Disk. The wizard to set up the backup disk is clearly cloned (at least partly) from Apple.

What I was excited most about, was the fact, that the OS was 64-Bit. And this brings me to my main points of critique: There are too many deficiencies.
First of all, you have now per default 3 Internet Explorers installed.
Second you need for all of them a Java Version. This means you need two (32-Bit and 64-Bit) and they are not compatible, respectively do not work together without some workarounds!
Third point is, that you have much more speed in 64-Bit but you do not even get a Flash-Player in 64-Bit. So you can't look at about 1/3 of the homepages out there. And this story goes further: You do not find drivers in 64-Bit for your hardware, you do not have a new MS Office in 64-Bit, even no Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox Browser.

This is a clear sign of how fast and maybe too fast, Microsoft has made up Windows 7. They wanted to shift the users from 32-Bit to 64-Bit and have not thought about the Software Vendors. You can say now, that the programs are compatible, at least the most of them, and also 32-Bit version run. But do I want to have old, slow and buggy crap (because the emulator for 32-Bit is going down from time to time. At least once a day.) on my new Windows 7 computer? I really do not want this.
We will see if this becomes a problem for Microsoft. I am pretty sure, that they will loose further market size, if the first tests in companies do not work well.

I will work now on with Windows 7 in the office and I am excited for how long it will take until my notebook is getting slower and slower.

Feel free to write your own experiences with Windows 7 down in the comments. I am glad to read them.