Our agent automatically will add an exception for you in the firewall. The only trouble I ran into was with the firewall. Of course, I had to try our remote control software to make sure it worked with this build – we don’t want to get caught by surprise like with Vista. You can get a description by hovering the mouse over a running application: Our Remote Control product is running (On the right) and Internet Explorer is on the left. Here is an example of the frustration I think a new user may have…look at this shot and tell me which program is running right now: People can learn, but dealing with end users for many years I can tell you this will be an uphill battle. Keep in mind Microsoft is not planning on having a “Classic” mode that lets you switch back to the old interface. I do use Mac OSX all the time, and I do like this way of working with applications, but I think it may be tough for the average windows user to make this transition. Essentially it is very similar to the Mac OSX model of only showing icons with no captions or descriptions: This is the first build that I have had a chance to play with that has the new start menu. Some visual aspects are still very familiar, such as the login screen: The first thing I noticed (different from the last beta) is the new bootup screen has this cool star weaving animation:
I downloaded it last night and decided to take it for a spin. Finally, Microsoft has decided to allow MSDN subscribers test the new version of Windows – Windows 7.
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