Finally found time to install and start running Win 7 on my Apple machine. A quick upgrade to Bootcamp made sure the installation went on pretty smoothly. At the end of it , the only problem I'm stuck with is the missing drivers (the trackpad refuses to work for one). Will get around to it sometime.
So the much hyped user interface is actually good. Though being a Mac user , I didn't find anything remarkable in any of the new razzmatazz. The OS is noticeably faster , cleaner, shinier. For anyone used to the old Windows interface, a few changes could take a day or so to get used to (have seen people fumble a little with the new Control Panel layout, similarly with the IIS management ), but all in all refreshing changes.
A funny thing happened ,though , when the Win7 machines were first plugged into the LAN, the PCs refused to connect. Suspecting a larger network issue , our sysadmin set out to unravel why. Turned out when the Win7 machines sent out a gratuitous ARP request, they actually received a response...each time! And not because of some IP conflict. Looked like the machine ended up responding to its own gratuitous ARP creating an appearance of another machine on the network with the same IP. A registry tweak finally resolved the issue but has to be done on each Win7 machine to let it log on to the network.
This is more a cute-funny mistake than a bug probably but for market leaders on desktop OSs , as a colleague puts it... "banta nahi Bhai"("It's not done, dude").
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