Finally after 2,5 year Vista was released I can say “WOW” with the first public beta of Windows 7. The installation process was and went smooth. I installed one VM and two physical machines. The setup went fine on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M57 and on my ASUS home system. I am looking forward to see the latest version released.
What’s new in Windows 7?
- Improved taskbar and full-screen previews
- Jump Lists
- New ways to work with Windows
- Internet Explorer 8
- Windows Live
- Better device management
- HomeGroup
- Faster, more responsive performance
- Extended battery life
- Theme packages reflect your style
- Take control of problems
- Share music and videos
- Windows Touch
- Handwriting recognition additions
- AppLocker
- Bitlocker with enhanced usb encryption
- etc
If you didn’t download it than I suggest browsing to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx and get the bits. Anyway I wanted to share my first experience with installing and playing with VMWare Workstation Version: 6.5.1 Build: 126130 and Windows 7 beta. It’s simple as it should. Plug and play 
The installation went smooth and in minutes I was able to run my VMs and all without hassle. I moved from Vista to Ubuntu and in the end I installed Windows XP as my desktop OS.
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Today I scheduled to move some components of one of the file servers I was using to another one and remove this 4U server from the rack. Another Dell PowerEdge 2600 was waiting to get those components installed. I added the memory, harddisks and the second Intel Xeon 2.4 GHZ CPU and I than turn on the server. The server started but no input on the tft monitor . Hhm I than started to remove one by one of the new components I installed into the system. First memory than harddisks and in the end I removed the second installed CPU and the system boot. I than add memory and harddisks and server come up again. 
