I had been out last week due to the flu, which sucks. There were a few
meetings that ended up getting rescheduled, which I hate having to do. Anyway,
I had the pleasure of playing around with the Windows 7 beta earlier and managed to
get a couple screen shots.
Windows 7 Calculator
Windows 7 brings a whole whack of new features to the user's fingers, and finally
they've updated the calculator. The codebase hadn't been touched since Windows 3.11.
Windows 7 Paint
The Paint application that comes with Windows 7 is actually pretty useful. The brushes
are nice, and you can get away with basic image manipulation without butchering the
picture. It's feature rich, and easy to use.
Windows 7 WordPad
Notice the ribbon bar? Very elegant. Makes simple text editing a breeze. Also, it
uses the new Office XML Standard instead of RTF for its default documents now.
