Home groups

Networks is like those invincible turtles that runs around, you never see them but you know they are there.
I most likely spent more hours trying to fix a network more than anything else.

In windows 7 this is rebuilt into a homegroup network.
So, you install w7, then you note you get to set a homegroup password.
Its pre produced, so you write it down and share it with everyone else on the homegroup.
I do hope they add a print out option.
Its pre done since a lot of people dont like to set a password since we often use 2 or so for our daily use.

Homegroups are made to make it easier.
If you have a printer, and its windows certified, then its get installed automatically, for all computers on the homegroup using w7.
If it uses a thirdparty device, you get a question if to install this or not.

If you set home, then the computer knows, this is your home network, if you walk over to your friend, and join his hoemgroup, this is set to his home, but when you come back home, your computer rejoins your own homegroup without asking.
Its neat, then its working as we do things, it knows where your home is...

Now, I just need the beta 1 from Microsoft so I can try this out with my own homegroup in house.

This homegroup network will allow a sharing of content across using libraries, so you add what content using libraries, and this then becomes automatically shared across your home network, and anyone who has the password and joins your homegroup, can see the files, sharing across computers will then be easy and hoepfully ends the hours trying to make this work.

Some might ask, what about vista, xp, mac and Linux?
This be done the old fashioned way.

One reason windows 7 does as it does, are to make the new conenction and system work on one platform, built from the ground up, since this also make it easier to create functionality, security and acess for us, and just using windows 7 as it is today, will most likely convince a lot of people to get windows 7.

I hope drivers from ati and Nvidia gets made asap, so people can get gaming on it really well.

/Robert Johansson