Game related ramblings from Singapore, the little red dot on the map south of Malaysia. The location and predominantly English speaking population mean we get US and JP/ Asia games easily. Cheap too.
Oooo Shiny!
Posted 01-11-2009 at 12:52 PM by Cactaur
You know you have too much time on your hands when you install Windows 7 Beta for shits & giggles. Idle hands & Devil's playground etc.
The install was surprisingly fast. Much, much faster than my last WinXP install. Of course that's probably because there's still a lot of crap that Microsoft hasn't got around to cramming into it.
Fooling around its pretty much like Vista which I've avoided like the plague. And it seems it may actually entice me to move over when the time comes.
The key thing holding me back is the media player. Had mixed experiences with 3rd party players like bsplayer and vlc which drove me to search the net for the most stable of them all: media player classic...
The new media player in Win 7 has gone a long way to removing the suck of the previous versions. Specifically not making that big ass library and skin the default view when opening a file. Its still not quite enough to convince me of its non-intrusive privacy respecting credentials though.
As always I'll probably let the launch day early adopters do some additional beta testing before I partake any more of Redmond's Kool Aide.
The install was surprisingly fast. Much, much faster than my last WinXP install. Of course that's probably because there's still a lot of crap that Microsoft hasn't got around to cramming into it.
Fooling around its pretty much like Vista which I've avoided like the plague. And it seems it may actually entice me to move over when the time comes.
The key thing holding me back is the media player. Had mixed experiences with 3rd party players like bsplayer and vlc which drove me to search the net for the most stable of them all: media player classic...
The new media player in Win 7 has gone a long way to removing the suck of the previous versions. Specifically not making that big ass library and skin the default view when opening a file. Its still not quite enough to convince me of its non-intrusive privacy respecting credentials though.
As always I'll probably let the launch day early adopters do some additional beta testing before I partake any more of Redmond's Kool Aide.
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