A Tech’s First Impression of Windows 7 64-bit
As I promised in yesterday’s post, Windows 7 and the Era of 64-bit, I deleted the partition on my machine containing Win 7 beta and installed a 64-bit version of the Win 7 RC.
I have to say that my first and most immediate impression is — I am disappointed.
Why?
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Because: the only thing that clued me that I was now “rolling with the 64” was — if I looked at my system properties — I could see a tiny, normal-sized line of text saying “64 bit Operating System”.
There was no banner — anywhere — that trumpeted, “Success: CONGRATULATIONS PAUL! You are now rolling with the big dogs!“
No balloons fell from the ceiling.
A marching band did not fill the room and play We Are The Champions.
There was, in fact, none of that.
There also wasn’t any glitches, snags, hang ups, curious error messages… and, when I clicked on Device Manager…
There was no yellow exclamation points, red X’s, etc., indicating that I needed to put on my safari outfit and go on a device driver hunt.
Huh.
So I tried plugging in a few USB devices — a camera, a multi-function printer, a joystick, and a storage device (I was, after all, all dressed for the hunt). All of them auto-installed with no action on my part — not even a click “Yes, search for drivers on the Internet”, or any of that.
Huh, again.
So I feel totally robbed. I was fully expecting to have to do some work… some troubleshooting… some driver hunting… feel some Installer’s Aggravation.
I was looking forward to it actually, as I thought it might make for some article fodder.. you know, Tech Paul Goes In Search Of The Elusive 64-bit Driver or What Size Hammer Made 64x Win 7 Fit My Machine.. or some such.
All I got was…
And, darned my luck, Windows Easy Transfer worked flawlessly too.
Huh.
Maybe (hopefully) I’ll run into trouble with networking… stay tuned.
[update: I did recently encounter a headache trying to install a device. See, Troubleshooting Installing Programs On Win 7]
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