News - Windows 7 feature list hints at multiple editions

[shaffaaf27]

cant wait for this to come out

[Tidus]

I like the sidebar - it sits on a second monitor and helpfully organises my gadgets. Take gadgets off it and they get (in general) larger too.

I only used 1 gadget on vista, a combination of system uptime and process usage so I never really had any use for the sidebar, but when I tried a few gadgets out I thought they looked too cluttered all together in the sidebar.

Reports are that performance is good (i.e. better). I haven't heard anything about sub. based stuff (and i'm not really interested in that anyway tbh).

Subscription would be the killer for me, I'm planning on moving to Linux when I upgrade my PC but will be dual booting with Vista, if Windows 7 is good performance wise I will upgrade, providing it's a 1-off payment and not a subscription.

[dangel]

I only used 1 gadget on vista, a combination of system uptime and process usage so I never really had any use for the sidebar, but when I tried a few gadgets out I thought they looked too cluttered all together in the sidebar.

For me (on my dev box) it's:

Clock
Quad core performance monitor
Top processes (most cpu use)
Dilbert
Clipboard gadget

As an organisational aid it's useful tis all - that and the gadgets are then forced to be a certain size (and thus more uniform). I won't lose sleep over it tho