Started taking a look at the Windows 7 public beta this week. The target machine for the install is my older PC, a Sony VAIO VGC -RA820G, that I have connected up as an HTPC . As this is a older machine I had held out form upgrading this machine the Vista I didn't want to upgrade or wipe out the existing XP installation on the this machine, so as a first step I created a blank 30 Gb partition for the Windows 7 installation using SystemRescueCD . Installation of Windows 7 was very smooth, once everything was up and running it also downloaded the latest updates. The Aero interface was working right of of the box, even without installing latest drivers which was nice, and looks great. I decided to install the latest video drivers anyway. A quick search on the ATI website located the ATI Windows 7 Beta drivers. Installed without a hitch, so far so good. Like previous versions of Windows it nags you to install some Anti Virus software and suggests a few options including Nort...
A log of my tinkering the various cloud and development tools I try out from time to time, and other software and internet related musing.