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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Microsoft hat ein neues Portal für uns Entwickler eröffnet: Microsoft DevLabs. 

Hier ein Auszug aus Soma’s Blog dazu:

Today we are launching DevLabs - a site dedicated to these software innovations for the developer community.  This is a portal where we can share not just some early thinking, but early bits, and let you play with them and help us determine the direction that these projects should eventually head.  While many of these projects will come from teams within Developer Division, this is an outlet for all innovations coming from Microsoft focused on you, the developer.

Ich bin ehrlich begeistert darüber, dass Microsoft seine Forschungabteilung nicht nur intern forschen lässt sondern darüber hinaus es auch ermöglicht, dass die kreative Ideenschmiede den Kontakt zur Außenwelt aufbaut, um frühes Feedback zu erhalten und möglicherweise kommende Generationen von Tools mit der Community für die Community zu entwickeln.

So soll es sein. Danke!

Vor wenigen Tagen hat Microsoft Research eine neue Version von Microsoft PEX released. Dank Bruce Williams habe ich zufällig erfahren. Danke Bruce!

• Nikolai Tillmann’s Blog – Sneak Preview : Code Digger – The new Pex Experience
• Pex – Automated White Box Testing for .NET
• Pex – Automated Exploratory Testing for .NET Channel 9 Video
• Code Digging with Pex – PDF Tutorial
• Pex – Documentation
• Pex – Downloads
• Offizielles Forum auf MSDN