Windows 7 take 1…. and Action!

My first post from within Win7 and I must say overall I have been very pleased.  My understanding is this version is more of an R2 of Vista than brand new everything and I think the early Beta stability represents that  (Disclaimer: I am a happy Vista user).

The only issue I have had is the lack of a way to mount an iso except through third party plugins.  In this day and age where everything gets distributed via iso files it just seems crazy.  We are left to scrounge around in the free third party tools world to install apps that install device drivers deep in the heart of Windows.  All of this work to create a stable, secure, and reliable OS and the first thing I have to do before I can install Visual Studio is start loading unsupported device drivers which not surprisingly at all, suck.  So for 3 hours last night (until I could find and rip out the offending stuff) my explorer would not work, shutdown would not work and required a hard reset.  So until I finally (hopefully) got everything disabled I had to keep glancing at that Win 7 install DVD wondering how much time I would spend on this before just wiping the drive and starting over.  All of that pain just because Windows would not mount an iso.  It would let me burn one, but why would I want to do that – waste a physical blank DVD for something I only need once??  It’s madness!!

So please great overloads of software, I love your newest version, but please give me the ability to mount an iso from the OS.  I trust you guys to write a driver that won’t hose my system, and if you don’t then I’ll be forced to hose my system trying 3rd party tools and guess who will get the blame for an unstable OS.  Yup – you will.

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