At first glance Windows7 is a very nice upgrade and in my opinion it is what Vista should have been. The Windows7 installation was quick and painless and the user experience is very quick and efficient. I’ve noticed a reduction in system resource usage in Windows7 over Windows Vista.
There is one small thing that is bothering me… I run dual monitors as I use this as my workstation and it often helps to have things side by side instead of on top of each other. I have seen the commercials of the “snap” feature and it looks like it would be very nice but the implementation when using dual monitors is less than I would expect.
You can snap a window to the left of the monitor on the left, or to the right of the monitor on the right, but not to the opposite sides of either monitor. Before you say that it’s because there is no “edge” between the two monitors – my primary monitor is 1600×1200 and my secondary is 1280×1024 and there is definitely an edge when going from the larger to the smaller monitor that i can hit the mouse up against.
I honestly can’t think of a real good way for Microsoft to implement the “snap” feature on a multiple monitor configuration that wouldn’t be more trouble than it’s worth and I can see the argument against even using it if you are running 2+ monitors but it’s the principal of the issue as far as I am concerned.
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS:
NOTE: On multiple monitors, continually pressing a keyboard shortcut combination below will cause the window to snap to the side and scroll in that direction through the multiple monitor screens.
* Windows Key + Left Arrow Key = This will snap the current window to the left side of the screen, or unsnap a window that is snapped to the right side of the screen.
* Windows Key + Right Arrow Key = This will snap the current window to the right side of the screen, or unsnap a window that is snapped to the left side of the screen.
@Tim
Very nice Tim 🙂