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Beta 1 of Windows 7 was spotted on torrent trackers, and I thought to share the usability experience. The Beta 1 is available on torrent trackers as an ISO file – Windows 7 is notably quite similar to Vista, in fact differences might go unnoticed. ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes tried out the version and here’s what he thought of it:

The new revamped taskbar is visually very interesting (and certainly a lot easier to use at higher screen resolutions that the Vista or XP taskbar), but it tries to do too much and as such comes across as kludgey and counter-intuitive. One failure is that it’s hard to tell the difference between apps that are running and shortcuts that have been pinned to the taskbar.