As I already stated in my last post, an inplace upgrade can result in a worst case scenario if you happen to have encrypted your harddrive. Don’t ask…

However, Windows 7 looks nice – at first. The new taskbar is something you need to get used to. Furthermore, the first beta suffers from a language mix (as expected; after all, it’s a beta) and sometimes you seem not to be able to close windows. Also, I didn’t get the Windows Live Messenger to minimize to the system tray (yet).

Microsoft put some effort into giving some apps a finishing touch. Wordpad and Paint for example got a complete new user interface with ribbons and the calculater now even features four different modes with lots of new possibililties.

Here are a couple of screenshots, I took:

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