Apart from almost copying Apple’s dock and shoving it into the traditional windows taskbar to make it a whole new better taskbar than anything out there, Microsoft is pushing some other niceties in its OS that may not be as apparent on the surface.
So, I was installing Windows 7 m3 (build 6801) yesterday and to my great surprise, I came about something really freaken awesome. Windows 7 creates, and tells you so, a smaller, about 200MB, partition for the important system files and puts everything else on another partition.
What a brilliant way to protect the system, much like advanced Unix configurations, which, unlike your average Ubuntu, have more than just a main and a swap partition.
Yes, it does not go as far as obsessidely spliting everything as many do with FreeBSD so that everything is seperated, data, user settings, software, the system itself, swap and whatever, but it still goes a long way into showing Microsoft’s will to make things work better.
Bravo, simply bravo.
