Today I have installed Windows 7 - 32 Bit Build 6801 Pre-Beta on my vmware 6.5 client running on a Pentium Dual Core 2.66 GHz computer.
The installation was performed on a virtual machine with 16 GB HDD space and 512 of MB RAM. The installation was simple and smooth, it took approximately 30 minutes to complete and restarted twice during the installation. Operating System itself took 9 GB Hard disk space.
Installation
Operating System Selection
Starting the Installation...
Restarting...
Starting Windows....
Completing the installation...
It took 70 seconds for the subsequent boots...
Look & Feel
Desktop is almost similar to Vista. As I 've installed on a virtual machine, there 's no way to test the Aero feature. Also for some reason, the gadget is also not started in my desktop.
Getting Started...
Start Menu
My Computer
Control Panel
Display Control Panel
Display Settings
Appearance & Personalization
Performance ( I'm sure, the rating is bad because the installation is on a virtual machine)
Network and Sharing Center
Firewall
Date & Time
Computer Management
Internet Explorer 8 Beta
Windows Media Player 12
XPS Viewer
New Ribbon interface with Paint and Wordpad
Windows PowerShell 2.0
Shutting Down....
More Info:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Win7DeveloperGuide
