It's called Superbar...

this is still PRE-BETA means u still cant full use of it and expect ALOT of hangs/crashes with your softwares

so don't switch it completely... only use it to test and choose to switch to windows 7 after release or not

great optimization from microsoft.. file transferring no more calculating time.. the speed of detecting external drive such as pendrive/ portable hdd is unbelivable.. (2 seconds approx)

Sure, Nero 8 (micro) doesn't work at all, crashes after splash screen, Nero 9 (lite) works, but everytime it start you need to accept a license agreement and a error dialog box... sheezz...

Windows 7 allows DirectX 10 acceleration on the CPU
Friday 28th November 2008

Seen on Windows 7 Won't Require Graphics Hardware for Effects
By Kevin Purdy, 6:00 AM on Mon Dec 1 2008



To put a few things short, now a lot of us can at least heave some sighs of relief... Let's be very clear about what it means here; the desktop effects are the definite thing to be impacted the most, not overall DirectX reqs for the rest of heavy lifting tasks such as high res gaming, HD content viewing or editing etc. Which is a good thing judging from the previous Aero headaches at post launch and pre SP1 performance fixes. Promising it is, even if it's just on paper.

At least some prayers are being listened to...

This post has been edited by eq8all: Dec 2 2008, 02:25 AM

den quad core users will get full peformance on their com loh.... at least they can make full use of it

The performance is still very slow compare to discrete display card. Not for serious gamer.

3dmark scores increase?

Generally on the efficiencies' side, ya that's the point bro. Which is to further make hardware resources more useful on everything else on top of the OS instead of the other way round.

Not sure if this is a repost or not

Windows 7: Play Crysis Without a GPU



Source : http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-cpu-gpu,6645.html

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Even though its slow, its better than nothing at all

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wow!!! den my 9600gt is a waste lor... intel gma can play oledi man....

if you like to play at 7fps or screensaver mode.. it's a waste

Based on the performance results, new games are hardly playable...don't dump your graphic cards just yet.

Either way, u still need a gc to boot the pc. Just an overhype gimmick to me.

built-in is enough.

It's not an overhype gimmick. You see, although it claim to run Crysis in totally software mode (which is possible), but it does stress your CPU, alot! PC with graphic card, the gc handles 3d rendering and effects, while CPU can handle physics, calculation, waypoints etc, so the load on the CPU is minimal. So do you got the point?

Nope, it's not an overhyped gimmick but like what "FarCry3r" said, it's gonna be taxing to your CPU "kao-kao".

Is vista driver compatible for windows 7??

Yes it is. What works in Windows Vista will work in Windows 7. Maybe even better in Windows 7 than in Windows Vista.