Windows 7

Microsoft has been showed up at a number of Java conferences lately. While QCon isn't strictly Java, it does dominate the agenda. This time the eye candy to attract geeks was a large coffee table with a built in touch screen. The device, know as Surface is fairly impressive though it looks like a knock off of a device demo'ed on a Ted talk a few years ago. Maybe MS bought the technology, who knows! All I know is i took the bait only to walk off with a beta copy of Windows 7.

I kept on walking over to John Davies office. He promptly grabbed the disk and created a Parallels image of it on his new MacBook Pro. Two minutes after starting the image, Windows 7 hung. Lots of fiddling later, same result. While it's not possible to draw any real conclusions, the initial contact with Windows 7 hasn't inspired me to move on from XP.