Huzzah! A second full day with the Windows 7 beta and not a single crash! I've since loaded the beta OS onto my laptop to see how it would perform on a low-powered system, and I must say, it's pretty efficient.
Power management is fairly useful, with options such as a timed auto-dim that lowers your backlight to save power. Another useful feature is the ability to form a Homegroup, which is basically a local network between your home computers, that lets you wirelessly share media and documents. The plus side is that I can now upload my day's Photoshop work from my laptop to my desktop in a few minutes. The downside, I suppose, is that both need to be on (duh) and have Windows 7.
Some other small but notable improvements include the icon-based taskbar (no more clutter of grey bars) that will auto-group similar windows. For example, I had My Documents and My Computer open, and was copying data from one to the other. When minimized, W7 grouped the three windows into one icon, that gradually filled up with green as the copy progressed toward completion. Again, a simple addition, but totally BA in my book.
Stay tuned for day three, and the catastrophic failure that is no doubt around the corner :(
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